Identification Study of Information on Short-Side Surface of Medical Drug Individual Package Case

摘要

The purpose of this research was to clarify the identification of the information on the short-side surface of individual package cases through an experiment from the viewpoint of the prevention of mistakes in picking up medical drugs. Subjects were shown sample sheets depicting the front designs of individual package cases, and they were asked to identify the specified medical drugs from the sample sheets in which the designs on the short-side surface of individual package cases were randomly arranged, which was prepared by imaging the drawers of a dispensing table, and the time required (in seconds) for identifying the specified medical drugs were compared. The times required (in seconds) were significantly shorter in both the pharmacist group and student group when the coloring of the short-side surface was the same as that of the front-side surface. Compared with the cases where the coloring of the short-side surface was not the same as that of front-side surface, the gaze on heat map was more stable. These results suggest that information such as coloring and design on the short-side surface of an individual package case greatly affects the identification of the medical drugs.