Implementación del Sistema de Distribución de Medicamentos por Dosis Unitaria en el área de medicina interna en el Hospital del IESS de la ciudad de Ambato

Abstract

Distribution system medicines for unit dose was implemented in the area of Internal Medicine, Hospital of the Ecuadorian Institute of Social Security canton Ambato Tun gurahua province. An economic lost was determi ned in the traditional system of medicines distribution justifying the implementation of a new system. Was developed during the month of March - April May 2014, at which time the prescription of medicine by physicians was evaluated (prescription errors, dup lication, via erroneous et c ). The cost of drugs for each patient admitted to the service hospitalization. The results show that achievement system, reduce prescribing errors, duplication via mistaken, overdose, concentration and mistakes in dispensing medi cation. In a addition, lower return from the economic point of view, the savings achieved during the test, allow to propose it's application in all services of the hospital. The system consists of validating, dispen se, distribute and store the dru gs in pre cise to 24 hours for each patient according to medical prescription. It applied several steps: Reception of medicament orders, elaboration of profiles drug therapist, syste m of identification per unit dos e, organization of patients by medicaments and revie w of stock of drugs.