Impact of a Hospital Information System-Integrated Automated Dispensing Cabinet on Medication Use and Safety in a Tertiary Hospital Emergency Department: A Prospective Before-and-After Study
Ryang Soon Lim, Woon-Jeong Lee, Hyen Oh La, Yun-Kyoung Song, Kyung Hee Choi · 2026
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Ryang Soon Lim and colleagues report a 2026 before-and-after study of a smart drug cabinet in a Korean hospital emergency department. The cabinet links to the hospital record system and controls how drugs are stored and handed out. The team compared drug use, errors, and costs in the months before and after the cabinet arrived, then checked again three years later.
Drug errors fell from 41 in the first window to 14 in the next, with the biggest drop in delivery mistakes. Stored drug items in the department shrank by more than nine tenths, and upkeep costs fell sharply too. Nurses rated drug safety high, and the gains held at three years, which supports wider use of linked cabinets.
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| CREATOR | Ryang Soon Lim, Woon-Jeong Lee, Hyen Oh La, Yun-Kyoung Song, Kyung Hee Choi |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 30496 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |