EPERCAS study (Strategies for Preventing Medication Administration Errors in Nursing Homes). Preparation of a list of strategies to prevent the most frequent medication administration errors in the residential care environment.

Medication administration errors are one of the most frequent types of errors. There are different safety guides and recommendations to prevent medication errors generally directed to the hospital environment. However, specific recommendations for the management process in the residential care environment are lacking.

The impact of automation on the safety of drug dispensing in nursing homes.

Objective: To compare the frequency and seriousness of notified dispensing errors in nursing homes when medication is dispensed manually versus automatically using a specifically selected automatic dispensing system.

Method: A pre-post retrospective observational study in 7 nursing homes. We  compare voluntarily notified dispensing errors in a manually dispensed weekly  system on the one hand (year 2013), with an Automated Tablet Dispensing and  Packaging System Xana4001U2 Tosho® for oral solid drugs used in combination  with a manual system for other drug forms (year 2015), on the other.