Impact of Implementing the Lean Management on Internal Errors at an Outpatient Hospital Pharmacy in China.

IF 2 3区医学 Q2 MEDICINE, GENERAL & INTERNAL Patient preference and adherence Pub Date : 2025-01-20 eCollection Date: 2025-01-01 DOI:10.2147/PPA.S486478

Lisong Lv, Yi Yao, Mingwan Zhang, Chuanwei Xin

{"title":"Impact of Implementing the Lean Management on Internal Errors at an Outpatient Hospital Pharmacy in China.","authors":"Lisong Lv, Yi Yao, Mingwan Zhang, Chuanwei Xin","doi":"10.2147/PPA.S486478","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Purpose: The purpose of this study was to explore the lean management strategies used by an outpatient hospital pharmacy in China to reduce internal errors in prescription dispense and to describe their impact on patient satisfaction.Methods: The type and number of internal errors in prescription dispense from January 1, 2022, to December 31, 2022, were collected. The causes of these errors were analyzed based on a series of lean management concepts and methods, and Lean Management was implemented from January 1, 2023, to December 31, 2023, in this outpatient hospital pharmacy. The number of internal errors, the proportion of dispense errors and the change of patient satisfaction before and after Lean Management were compared.Results: Before the implementation of Lean Management, 2978 cases of internal errors were reported. It includes 1286cases (43.18%) of delivering wrong numbers, 612cases (20.55%) of medication in close proximity, 434cases (14.57%) of forget to dispense medication, 221cases (7.42%) of sound-alike medication, 203 cases (6.82%) of multiple sizes of a medication, 125 cases (4.20%) of look-alike medication, and 97 cases (3.26%) of others. The proportion of dispense errors was 3.46‰. After the implementation of Lean Management, the total number of internal errors in prescription dispense decreased to 219 cases, the proportion of internal errors in prescription dispense decreased to 0.27‰, which has a significant difference, and the satisfaction of patients increased from 52.94% to 72.97%.Conclusion: The implementation of Lean Management can be an efficient approach to reduce the internal errors in prescription dispense.","PeriodicalId":19972,"journal":{"name":"Patient preference and adherence","volume":"19 ","pages":"139-147"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0000,"publicationDate":"2025-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11759580/pdf/","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Patient preference and adherence","FirstCategoryId":"3","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.2147/PPA.S486478","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"2025/1/1 0:00:00","PubModel":"eCollection","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"MEDICINE, GENERAL & INTERNAL","Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

Abstract

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to explore the lean management strategies used by an outpatient hospital pharmacy in China to reduce internal errors in prescription dispense and to describe their impact on patient satisfaction.

Methods: The type and number of internal errors in prescription dispense from January 1, 2022, to December 31, 2022, were collected. The causes of these errors were analyzed based on a series of lean management concepts and methods, and Lean Management was implemented from January 1, 2023, to December 31, 2023, in this outpatient hospital pharmacy. The number of internal errors, the proportion of dispense errors and the change of patient satisfaction before and after Lean Management were compared.

Results: Before the implementation of Lean Management, 2978 cases of internal errors were reported. It includes 1286cases (43.18%) of delivering wrong numbers, 612cases (20.55%) of medication in close proximity, 434cases (14.57%) of forget to dispense medication, 221cases (7.42%) of sound-alike medication, 203 cases (6.82%) of multiple sizes of a medication, 125 cases (4.20%) of look-alike medication, and 97 cases (3.26%) of others. The proportion of dispense errors was 3.46‰. After the implementation of Lean Management, the total number of internal errors in prescription dispense decreased to 219 cases, the proportion of internal errors in prescription dispense decreased to 0.27‰, which has a significant difference, and the satisfaction of patients increased from 52.94% to 72.97%.

Conclusion: The implementation of Lean Management can be an efficient approach to reduce the internal errors in prescription dispense.

查看原文

微信好友朋友圈 QQ好友复制链接

本刊更多论文

求助全文

约1分钟内获得全文去求助

来源期刊

Patient preference and adherence MEDICINE, GENERAL & INTERNAL-

CiteScore

3.60

自引率

4.50%

发文量

354

审稿时长

6-12 weeks

期刊介绍： Patient Preference and Adherence is an international, peer reviewed, open access journal that focuses on the growing importance of patient preference and adherence throughout the therapeutic continuum. The journal is characterized by the rapid reporting of reviews, original research, modeling and clinical studies across all therapeutic areas. Patient satisfaction, acceptability, quality of life, compliance, persistence and their role in developing new therapeutic modalities and compounds to optimize clinical outcomes for existing disease states are major areas of interest for the journal. As of 1st April 2019, Patient Preference and Adherence will no longer consider meta-analyses for publication.