Abstract
Extemporaneous Preparation (Drug Compounding) - the creation of a drug product by mixing ingredients - is an important part of ensuring that medications are available to meet individual patient needs, the quality and extent of drug compounding have surfaced as important issues in recent years. For example, several compounding cases in the last several years have resulted in critical diseases and deaths, raising concern about observation to ensure the safety of compounded drugs.
 This paper lays the groundwork for the development of Extemporaneous Preparation system. This system facilitates compounding process in systemic approach in the pharmacy of king Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre -non profit tertiary care hospital- to prevent manual errors and improve patient safety and quality by using bar coding technology.
Highlights
Medication errors are popular in hospitals, and dispensing errors made in the pharmacy engaged extremely to these errors
In details: Extemporaneous Preparation - a small scale pharmaceutical compounding as it related to pharmaceutics includes preparation, mixing, packaging and labeling of certain medicines for internal or external use for human being in response to prescription that written by health care practitioner
To develop a system that will be able to organize compounding process in a systemic approach in terms of preventing human errors during the compounding preparation, avoiding time wasting for both pharmacist and patient and ensuring that the right medications were being dispensed by using bar-coding technology
Summary
Medication errors are popular in hospitals, and dispensing errors made in the pharmacy engaged extremely to these errors. Some of oral drugs are formulated for adults and presented as solid dosage forms or as liquids of unsuitable concentration for certain conditions or for children Pharmacist prepared these formula by checking out references and doing calculation manually, which is usually consuming time and cannot role out of human errors. On the basis of the theoretical benefits for patient safety, the U.S Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has mandated barcodes for all medications used in hospitals by April 2006 (5). Many hospitals adopted this technology to increase the accuracy of the dispensing and administration processes
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