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…
We have another important reason for the unitarization of medicines, as it is the responsibility of the pharmacist responsible for the hospital pharmacy to differentiate medicines to avoid similarity errors.
Unitarization involves two main processes: packaging, label printing or unitary packaging. And it can be done manually or with unitizing machines.
Maintaining materials with a serial code allows reliable control to include expenses in each patient's bill and thus adequately justify each expense.
As soon as the medicines arrive in batches at the reception sector, we should take them to the unitization room. Why?