Using mobiles for drug info can save lives, says study

MUMBAI: Using mobile devices in healthcare settings can save lives. A new study from the University of Pittsburg School of Medicine shows that nearly nine out of 10 nursing home doctors in the US had prevented at least one adverse drug event in the last month by using mobile devices to look up information about prescription drugs. This finding has been published in the Journal of the American Medical Directors Association.

Incidentally, the medical schools in Mumbai have banned doctors and nurses from using mobile devices at the workplace because they distract'' the staff from patient-care.

Adverse drug events cause 93,000 deaths and $4 billion in excess healthcare costs in the US each year. "Most US nursing homes do not have electronic medical record systems and, as a result, physicians frequently do not have access to current medication information at the point of prescribing," said lead investigator Steven M Handler from the University of Pittsburg School of Medical. But this lack of timely medication information could lead to adverse drug-drug interactions. Our hypothesis was that if physicians could look up drug information first, many of these mistakes could be avoided," a press release from the university quoted him as saying.

Over 550 nursing home doctors were surveyed for the study. Around 42 % of the participants said they used a mobile device to check drug information, and greater use was more common amongst those who had been in practice for less than 15 years. Eighty-eight per cent of the participants reported that using a mobile device to check drug information prevented one or more potential adverse drug events in the previous four weeks, leading to greater patient safety.

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