A medical decision support system based on structured injection orders

Lan Ying Kang, Yu-Sheng Lo, Chien-Tsai Liu

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Abstract

Medication Errors, means the errors which occur during the whole process from prescribing by doctors, filling prescriptions by dispensers, and medicating by nursing staff or taking medicine by patients. It includes negligence and judgments errors in the whole process. The main reasons are lack of communications in medical groups, unclearly handing over between shifts, blurred orders, and different recognition to abbreviation...etc. Even so, concerning injections and IV are still with oral orders which leads nursing staff using the wrong medicine, dosage and dilution concentrations...etc. easily. Therefore, this study is going to build the database of injection orders and structure IV orders to avoid not able to screen unstructured written orders leading into negligence of nursing staff due to insufficient communications or blurred orders, reduce medication negligence, promote the qualities of medical care. Furthermore, it is able to keep missed accounts off, save time on overlapped manual input, forward efficiency.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAdvances in Applied Sciences, Engineering and Technology II
PublisherTrans Tech Publications Ltd
Pages1527-1531
Number of pages5
ISBN (Print)9783038351849
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2014
Event2014 International Conference on Applied Sciences, Engineering and Technology, ICASET 2014 - Qingdao, China
Duration: Jul 28 2014Jul 29 2014

Publication series

NameAdvanced Materials Research
Volume998-999
ISSN (Print)1022-6680
ISSN (Electronic)1662-8985

Other

Other2014 International Conference on Applied Sciences, Engineering and Technology, ICASET 2014
Country/TerritoryChina
CityQingdao
Period7/28/147/29/14

Keywords

  • Decision support
  • Injection orders
  • Medication errors
  • Medication safety

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Engineering

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