Evaluation of progress of the appropriate use of drugs by the safety control manager
10.11256/jjdi.12.24
- VernacularTitle:医薬品安全管理責任者による薬品適正使用の推進およびその評価
- Author:
Koji Osawa
;
Mika Matsumoto
;
Michiteru Ohtani
;
Munetoshi Sugiura
;
Katsuyoshi Uchino
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
safety control manager of drugs;
checklist;
exceed the cutoff point;
nonconformity;
inventory control
- From:Japanese Journal of Drug Informatics
2010;12(1):24-29
- CountryJapan
- Language:Japanese
-
Abstract:
[summery]
Our hospital appointed a pharmacist to be safety control manager of drugs. With the aim of promoting an appropriate use of drugs, the safety control manager of drugs ensures the appropriate storage, the expiration, and the use record with control drugs following the business procedure every month. These requirements were confirmed at all divisions of hospital, and then the nonconformity was recorded following the procedure.
The largest number of nonconformity were entry on drugs unseal date and an exceeded the cutoff point of inventory. We couldn’t gain sufficient improvement about an appropriate use of drugs. The causes of this nonconformity were dispersion of drugs at each division and insufficient inventory control of drugs. We attempted to gather and to keep drugs into one group. As a result, the number of nonconformity greatly decreased at all divisions. The amount of money of stock in hospital was decreased by about 20%.
These results suggested that the confirmation of requirements with business procedure by the safety control manager’s rounds of hospital was extremely helpful method with an appropriate use of drugs.
