Health Care

Hospital Medication Systems

Overall systems, traditional or automated, to provide medication to patients in hospitals. Elements of the system are: handling the physician's order, transcription of the order by nurse and/or pharmacist, filling the medication order, transfer to the nursing unit, and administration to the patient.

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Overall systems, traditional or automated, to provide medication to patients in hospitals. Elements of the system are: handling the physician's order, transcription of the order by nurse and/or pharmacist, filling the medication order, transfer to the nursing unit, and administration to the patient.

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Synonyms

22 entry terms
  • Drug Distribution System, Hospital
  • Drug Distribution Systems, Hospital
  • Hospital Drug Distribution Systems
  • Hospital Medication System
  • Hospital Unit Dose Drug Distribution System
  • Hospital Unit Dose Drug Distribution Systems
  • Medication System, Hospital
  • Medication Systems, Hospital
  • System Hospital Medication
  • Systems, Medication Hospital
  • Hospital Medication, System
  • Hospital Medications, System
  • Hospital System, Medication
  • Hospital Systems, Medication
  • Medication Hospital System
  • Medication Hospital Systems
  • Medication, System Hospital
  • Medications, System Hospital
  • System Hospital Medications
  • System, Hospital Medication
  • System, Medication Hospital
  • Systems, Hospital Medication

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9 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, ethics, history, legislation & jurisprudence, organization & administration, standards, statistics & numerical data, trends.

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Indexing Annotation

an organizational concept in hospital patient care for providing medication; do not confuse with DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEMS

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History Note

78; was HOSPITAL MEDICATION SYSTEMS 1968-77

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Previous Indexing

  • Pharmacy Service, Hospital (1966-1967)

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WX 179

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Hospital Medication Systems. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D008510. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D008510
  2. Hospital Medication Systems. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q70373949