Abstract:A point estimate study was conducted at a general teaching hospital in Britain that measured the availability of patients' paper medication administration records (also known as MARs or drug charts) in five surgical and two medical units. The five surgical units kept MARs at patients' bedsides, whereas each of the two medical units kept all MARs at two designated drug trolleys. MARs were readily available 76% (84 of 111 patients) of the time in the surgical units, compared to 94% (45 of 48 patients) of the tim… Show more
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