Good question. What does it mean? "The company's solutions issue more than 400,000 alerts to hospital staff each week, helping to prevent an estimated 56,000 medication errors." Sounds nice.
"At Presbyterian Healthcare Services in Albuquerque, N.M., nurses' practice of scanning bar codes on patient wristbands has led to a 77.9 percent reduction in medication errors" Meaning what? Believe the VA IM Archives study had only 1% of all the errors were dispensing. The whole thing rings a bit opportunistic. If they had real data, they could have published that instead of "Nurse Opinion." We can't speak the size of their installed base compared to the total doses dispensed by VA. thurman > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:hardhats- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Molly Cheah > Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2005 6:36 PM > To: hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [Hardhats-members] New study on medication safety - nurses > perspective > > http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050602/sfth049.html?.v=13 > *Press Release* Source: McKesson Corporation > > New Study Shows Medication Safety Improving, Still a Major Concern for > Nurses > Thursday June 2, 7:00 am ET > > Nurses See Serious Medication Errors, Technology Cited as Reason for > Improvements > > <snipped> > > > McKesson has been at the forefront of major breakthroughs in > > medication management, including robotic drug dispensing and bar-code > > medication scanning at the point of care. With more than 44 million > > medications scanned by McKesson customers every year, McKesson leads > > the industry in bar-coded medication administration. The company's > > solutions issue more than 400,000 alerts to hospital staff each week, > > helping to prevent an estimated 56,000 medication errors. > > How do those figures above compare with VA's as McKesson claimed to lead > the industry in bar-coded medication administration? > > Molly > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by Yahoo. > Introducing Yahoo! Search Developer Network - Create apps using Yahoo! > Search APIs Find out how you can build Yahoo! directly into your own > Applications - visit http://developer.yahoo.net/?fr=offad-ysdn-ostg-q22005 > _______________________________________________ > Hardhats-members mailing list > Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Yahoo. Introducing Yahoo! Search Developer Network - Create apps using Yahoo! Search APIs Find out how you can build Yahoo! directly into your own Applications - visit http://developer.yahoo.net/?fr=offad-ysdn-ostg-q22005 _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
