Affiliation:
1. College of Business, Abu Dhabi University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Abstract
Medication errors in healthcare have a high cost since it is one of the main causes of harming a patient; it leads to inefficient utilization of healthcare organization resources. The barcode medication administration system helps in improving the patients' safety. The purpose of this article is to determine preparatory needs for introducing a Barcoding Medication Administration System (BCMA) in the medical units in one of the largest tertiary hospital in Abu Dhabi City, United Arab Emirates. Analytical Hierarchical Process (AHP) has been employed to describe systematic decision-making by prioritizing different factors that affect the implementation of BCMA and how technology plays a role in helping to reduce or prevent human errors by promoting safety in the health care sectors. Five major domains are identified: leadership, technology, process, education, quality and safety. Leadership was found to be the most important factor oppositely of technology was the least important.
Subject
Modeling and Simulation,General Computer Science
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