ADC Wrong Drug

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Mon, 08/17/2020 - 17:48
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Joanie Cook
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ADC Wrong Drug

Any effective strategies out there for preventing the wrong med from being refilled in ADCs? We use Pyxis ES. Occasionally these events are matrix drawers, but this frequently happens with cubies as well. Our tech-check-tech process is that one tech pulls the med from our pharmacy stock and a different tech refills the ADC. As far as I know, Pyxis only allows scanning of one med when refilling each pocket. And it can be difficult to impossible to find out which staff members were involved, what the contributing factors were, the initial cause, etc. Any ideas?

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