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A New Drug-Shelf Arrangement for Reducing Medication Errors using Data Mining: A Case Study

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dc.creator CEYLAN, Zeynep
dc.creator OKTAY FIRAT, Seniye Ümit
dc.date 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned 2019-07-09T11:58:49Z
dc.date.available 2019-07-09T11:58:49Z
dc.identifier http://dergipark.org.tr/sdufenbed/issue/34610/382216
dc.identifier 10.19113/sdufbed.14205
dc.identifier.uri http://acikerisim.sdu.edu.tr/xmlui/handle/123456789/45978
dc.description Medication errors are common, fatal, costly but preventable. Location of drugs on the shelves and wrong drug names in prescriptions can cause errors during dispensing process. Therefore, a good drug-shelf arrangement system in pharmacies is crucial for preventing medication errors, increasing patient’s safety, evaluating pharmacy performance, and improving patient outcomes. The main purpose of this study to suggest a new drug-shelf arrangement for the pharmacy to prevent wrong drug selection from shelves by the pharmacist. The study proposes an integrated structure with three-stage data mining method using patient prescription records in database. In the first stage, drugs on prescriptions were clustered depending on the Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical (ATC) classification system to determine associations of drug utilizations. In the second stage association rule mining (ARM), well-known data mining technique, was applied to obtain frequent association rules between drugs which tend to be purchased together. In the third stage, the generated rules from ARM were used in multidimensional scaling (MDS) analysis to create a map displaying the relative location of drug groups on pharmacy shelves. The results of study showed that data mining is a valuable and very efficient tool which provides a basis for potential future investigation to enhance patient safety.
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dc.publisher Süleyman Demirel University
dc.publisher Süleyman Demirel Üniversitesi
dc.relation http://dergipark.org.tr/download/article-file/408856
dc.source Volume: 21, Issue: 3 774-781 en-US
dc.source 1308-6529
dc.subject Association rules,Data mining; Drug-shelf arrangement; Medication errors; Multi-dimensional scaling
dc.title A New Drug-Shelf Arrangement for Reducing Medication Errors using Data Mining: A Case Study en-US
dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article


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