TY - GEN
T1 - A formal human reliability analysis of a community pharmacy dispensing procedure
AU - Zheng, Xi
AU - Bolton, Matthew L.
AU - Daly, Christopher
AU - Feng, Lu
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright 2017 by Human Factors and Ergonomics Society.
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - Medication errors in community pharmacies are a major threat to patient health and safety. Current experimental and observational studies are insufficient to address the medication error problem due to its complexity. Thus, we adapt a well-validated human reliability analyses (HRA) approach for use with the probabilistic model checking, to create and validate a formal approach that allows the analysts to predict medication error rates and explore interventions for different community pharmacy procedures. We use the method to analyze a common dispensing procedure of community pharmacies and compare our results to published error rates. Finally, we discuss our results and explore how our method could be further developed in the future.
AB - Medication errors in community pharmacies are a major threat to patient health and safety. Current experimental and observational studies are insufficient to address the medication error problem due to its complexity. Thus, we adapt a well-validated human reliability analyses (HRA) approach for use with the probabilistic model checking, to create and validate a formal approach that allows the analysts to predict medication error rates and explore interventions for different community pharmacy procedures. We use the method to analyze a common dispensing procedure of community pharmacies and compare our results to published error rates. Finally, we discuss our results and explore how our method could be further developed in the future.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85042489245
U2 - 10.1177/1541931213601667
DO - 10.1177/1541931213601667
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85042489245
T3 - Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
SP - 728
EP - 732
BT - Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 2017 International Annual Meeting, HFES 2017
PB - Human Factors an Ergonomics Society Inc.
T2 - Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 2017 International Annual Meeting, HFES 2017
Y2 - 9 October 2017 through 13 October 2017
ER -