Nurse-patient interaction is vital to the quality of patient care at any hospital. To increase the amount of time nurses have to spend with their patients the West Roxbury VA Hospital installed a number of automated medication dispensing units. This medication delivery system provides a stock of medications that are immediately available to nurses. Our team worked to quantify the success of this system at reducing missing medications and to analyze the hospital's current medication delivery system as a whole.

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Creator

• Krawic, Casey Anne
• Theoharidis, Zachary Spero
• DeSotto, Kristine M.
• Wimble, Joshua Michael

Subject

• Well-Being
• Health
• Industry

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-042811-161756

Keyword

• Medical care

Advisor

• Konrad, Renata
• Bar-On, Isa

Year

• 2011

Center

• Boston, Massachusetts Project Center - IQP

Sponsor

• Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare System - West Roxbury Campus

Date created

• 2011-04-28

Location

• Boston

Resource type

• Interactive Qualifying Project

Rights statement

• In Copyright