Chief Healthcare Executive August 31, 2021
A mobile health app provides a safer and more timely drug delivery system.
Use of a mobile app significantly decreases the rate of medication errors and time to drug delivery for emergency drug preparation in a prehospital setting.
Findings of the recent study suggest such apps have the potential to improve medication safety and change practices in pediatric emergency medicine.
Johan N. Siebert, M.D., and a team of Switzerland-based investigators assessed the efficacy of an evidence-based mobile app in reducing the occurrence of medication errors compared with conventional preparation methods during simulated pediatric out-of-hospital cardiac arrest scenarios. The nationwide, open-label, multicenter, randomized clinical trial took place at 14 emergency medical services centers in Switzerland.
Two methods were evaluated to guide...
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