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Area of Science:

  • Health Informatics
  • Pharmacy Practice
  • Patient Safety

Background:

  • Automated dispensing cabinets (ADCs) are susceptible to technology-induced errors during controlled substance dispensing.
  • Existing enhancements to medication use processes have not fully addressed the impact of ADC functionality on controlled substance discrepancies.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To assess how expanded ADC functionality influences technology-induced errors, specifically controlled substance discrepancies.
  • To evaluate the effect of ADC cassette expansion on errors during blind inventory counts and cassette dispensing.

Main Methods:

  • A quasi-experimental study over 18 months at 8 ADCs evaluated the expanded use of dispensing cassettes for high-usage, unit-dose controlled substances.
  • Controlled substance dispenses, blind inventory count discrepancies, and cassette dispensing errors were compared before and after cassette expansion.
  • Discrepancy and error rates were calculated using 1-week segments throughout the study.

Main Results:

  • The proportion of cassette dispenses rose from 16% to 72% post-expansion.
  • Controlled substance discrepancies significantly decreased from 11 to 7 per 1000 dispenses (P < .0001).
  • Cassette dispensing errors significantly increased to approximately 28 per 1000 dispenses (P < .0001).

Conclusions:

  • Expanding ADC functionality can reduce technology-induced controlled substance discrepancies.
  • This expansion comes at the cost of a significant increase in cassette dispensing errors, indicating a need for careful management.