The pharmacy department at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh is installing talking prescription boxes in order to improve patient safety measures, according to a report by KDKA.
With thousands of bins of medication for approximately 300 patients, the talking boxes are being installed to help hospital workers correctly identify correct prescriptions that belong to the right patients. The names and strengths of the drugs in the box or pre-recorded, and each time one of the talking boxes is opened, that information is played so it can be heard by the worker. Thirty talking boxes have already been produced, and the hospital plans to produce more.
Read the KDKA report on Children's Hospital's talking boxes.
Read other coverage about healthcare quality:
- Colorado's Centura Health Releases Patient Safety and Quality Report
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With thousands of bins of medication for approximately 300 patients, the talking boxes are being installed to help hospital workers correctly identify correct prescriptions that belong to the right patients. The names and strengths of the drugs in the box or pre-recorded, and each time one of the talking boxes is opened, that information is played so it can be heard by the worker. Thirty talking boxes have already been produced, and the hospital plans to produce more.
Read the KDKA report on Children's Hospital's talking boxes.
Read other coverage about healthcare quality:
- Colorado's Centura Health Releases Patient Safety and Quality Report
- Nevada Hospitals Plan to Start Reporting Infections
- UCLA Study Shows Intervention Program Improves Heart Failure Care