Effect of a robotic prescription-filling system on pharmacy staff activities and prescription-filling time

American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy

Volumn 64, Issue 17, 2007, Pages 1832-1839

  Lin, Alex C ^a   Huang, Yao Chin ^b,c   Punches, George ^d   Chen, Yan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^b Kong Siou Pharmacy ^*  (Taiwan)

^c UC   (United States)

^d Unches Pharmacy Plus   (United States)

Author keywords

Automation; Dispensing; Manpower; Personnel, pharmacy; Pharmacy, community; Robotics; Time studies

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; PHARMACIST; PHARMACY; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROBOTICS; STAFF; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKLOAD; HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION; MANPOWER; STATISTICS;

COMMUNITY PHARMACY SERVICES; MEDICATION SYSTEMS; PHARMACISTS; PHARMACISTS' AIDES; PRESCRIPTIONS, DRUG; ROBOTICS; TIME AND MOTION STUDIES;

EID: 34848841883     PISSN: 10792082     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2146/ajhp060561     Document Type: Article

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