Compliance Report for Barcode scanning for Inpatient Pharmacy Dispensing (Preparation/Filling, Product Verification)

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Nadia Aslam
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Compliance Report for Barcode scanning for Inpatient Pharmacy Dispensing (Preparation/Filling, Product Verification)

We are attempting to revamp our current compliance report to gauge the adherence of barcode scanning for inpatient pharmacy or oncology clinic pharmacy staff dispense patient specific doses using Dispense Prep and Dispense Check from data in the Electronic Health Record (EHR).

• What benchmarks has your organization set for compliance in terms of scanning medications in pharmacy prior to filling, verifying, and tracking deliveries? Is there any industry standard that you know of?

• Can you share what your organization does to examine compliance (perhaps by sharing a template of your reports and not the actual data)?

• What process do you use to calculate the compliance rate when extrapolating data from your EHR?
o For example, is it a % of barcoded orders scanned divided by administrations? or % of barcoded orders scanned as a function of dispensed labels? Or something else?
o What units/pt care settings, dispense codes, dispense types, are included and what are excluded
o What items seem to throw off your data? This is what we’re trying to “clean up” to avoid dirty data when gauging compliance rates.

Thank you!

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