This paper suggests a patient safety management system model for inpatients in hospitals to ensure the safety of patients who may be involved in medication, transfusion and acting. This system was implemented with a OCS / EMR Server, WEB Server, client PC, tablet PC, and bar code scanner to provide acting error prevention and convenience of nursing services.
The proposed model shows that the new method by bar code based-recognition system can more efficiently perform to reduce processing time for nursing service, compared with the current approach by verbal recognition system. To compare the effects of the system, the average processing time (elapsed time) from the check of nursing work list to the start of acting and the average error rate of the acting result were measured based on blood transfusion.
It is noted in case of the method by bar code-based recognition system that the effects of proposed model are as follows;
(a) While the processing time per patient by the current method was 45 minutes, the processing time by the new method was 40 minutes.
(b) While the processing error ratio by the current method was 0.5%, the error ratio by the new method was 0.2%.