The Effect of Hospital Information Systems on Medication Errors in the Dispensing Prescriptions in the Inpatient Parts at Training Center -Therapy Martyr Motahari Marvdasht: 1392

Medication errors, one of the most common mistakes in health systems that could results in very bad and deadly consequences. This study aimed to investigate the impact of hospital information systems (HIS) on the rate of medication errors in the hospital sector dispensing prescriptions in the inpatient parts at Training Center - Therapy martyr Motahari Marvdasht. In this cross-sectional study, in total, 600 inpatient prescriptions were examined in two time periods before and after the implementation of hospital information systems. Errors occurred during dispensing were extracted from a checklist developed by the researcher and data was analyzed through SPSS 19. The maximum error in the inpatient parts before implementation the hospital information system related to read the signs acronyms with an average error of 0.75 and after the implementation related to mismatched type of wrapped prescription with Physician orders, with an average of 0.42. Also, the rate of medication errors in terms of number of drugs was significantly reduced after the implementation of hospital information system. According to the effect of hospital information system on medication errors, with the development of this system and using its advanced types including computerized record