Effectiveness of Smart Pumps

Effectiveness of Smart Pumps

Background

Since 1999 the Institute of Medicine developed a report regarding the human errors while providing health facilities to individuals. The report recommended that in order to improve the quality of health facilities and to prevent the errors it is important that a safer healthy system should be designed. Another report was presented in 2006 that provided an extensive literature review regarding the comprehensive measures that need to be taken; it provided guidance to consumers, health service providers and other important stakeholders to play their part in reduction of errors. The report emphasized on healthcare organizations to use technology such as smart pumps so that a safer health delivery service is provided to the patients. Later on a survey was conducted during 2000 and 2004 that also found that smart usage was increasing rapidly in the healthcare organizations. Till 2004 the surveys found that more than 30% of the healthcare organizations have adopted smart pump technology to decrease errors and provide better quality health facility.

Smart pumps are infusion pumps that have electronic software that identifies the need of oxygen that should be provided to the patients. The smart pumps have electronic ability that enables them to fulfill the requirement of oxygen required by patients after a certain surgery or operation. Thus the following report is important as it will enable the readers to find out the use and effectiveness of the smart pumps in modern era and this research will help in finding out the rate of success and failure of using smart pumps. The research will also help in finding out that either health becomes better or not when hospitals use smart pumps.

Therefore the research question of this literature review will be to find out that 'how effective are Smart Pumps?' The data will be collected to find out that either hypothesis H0; is smart pumps effective or H1; are smart pumps not effective, will be accepted or rejected.

Methods

In order to collect data related to the research question it is important to take into consideration both the primary and secondary sources of data. The secondary data will be collected through research articles, scholarly journals, medical reports and etc. On the other hand primary sources of data will be collected from the observations and results found regarding the effectiveness of the smart pumps. The criteria for selecting the articles was based on three principles; reliability, accuracy and authenticity of the journal and were these articles published in medical journals or magazines.

When I entered Smart-pumps within the date range from 2000 to present I found 183 results. I also was surprised to see the results from Research 497 and Medication errors 267. Most of the data was relevant information regarding my topic. Nevertheless, after completing several researches it began to get easier to locate more and more results. The following data will also be analyzed:

Database: Medline via Ovid

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Results

Comments

1. Smart pumps

2000-Current

183

Relevant information

2. Medication Errors

2000-Current

267

Relevant information

3. Research

2000-Current

497

Combined: 1 and 2 and ...