Electric Number Indicative System of Decrease in Unreceived Medicines

Abstract

There are two kinds of dispensed medicines which remain in hospital pharmacy not received by outpatients. One of them is the temporary unreceived medicines that patients did not take in the office hour but received later, and the other is the medicines that were not finally received. The latter was examined mainly. When the electric number indicative system was installed in the Public Ishikawa Central Hospital, the unreceived medicines decreased significantly. The, decrease was remarkable at the departments with small number of prescriptions. It has been reported that waiting time or number of accepted prescriptions is correlated with number of unreceived medicines. But this correlation is observed only in temporary unreceived medicines, and no correlation between finally unreceived medicines and number of prescriptions was observed.