Abstract The hospital pharmacy aims, in the context of patient safety, to collaborate in the process of health care and well-being, ensuring that the patient uses the prescribed medication, in the appropriate presentation, time, dose, dosage and routes, avoiding errors associated with medications. As an important measure to reduce the risk of…
It was 2008, Victor Basso and Moisés Curvello, founded Opuspac. Both engineers had 50 years of business experience between them. They started with a small plant, measuring 130 m², and one technician. Everything in this company was designed from scratch, without any imitation. Victor says he doesn't know how to repeat a design. That's the only way to…
There are investments in quality that have a return and others that do not have a return, as with any investment in management. How do we achieve balance?
Maintaining materials with a serial code allows reliable control to include expenses in each patient's bill and thus adequately justify each expense.
We refer to the attitude of individuals and the groups to which they belong and being the best culture as that fair, horizontal and transparent attitude.
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In 2009, law 11.903 was published determining the creation of the National Medicines Control System (SNCM), from production to consumption. Medication tracking will be through electronic data capture, storage and transmission technology of pharmaceutical products throughout the national territory.
We are referring to oral liquid medicines, such as syrups or herbal medicines, from the central pharmacy to the patients. This is a repetitive task that is rarely questioned.
It is impossible to improve the logistics flow scheme without clarity of the entire process, with the quantities that circulate in each sector and their classification, which we call the Hospital Logistics Project.
As soon as the medicines arrive in batches at the reception sector, we should take them to the unitization room. Why?
Today more than ever, a hospital is a multidisciplinary place where managers, lawyers, clinical engineers, administrators, logistics managers, and human resources specialists all work together, all collaborating so that the complex “hospital machine” and the professional work of doctors can be carried out in the best conditions.