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For Better Patient Safety, Identify and Reconcile Drugs Prescribed with Drugs Dispensed, Using Drug Imprints
First DataBank's Drug Imprints Module gives you access to important information used to identify prescription and over-the-counter drugs in detail. This helps healthcare professionals and patients identify drug products that are unpackaged, unlabeled or unknown. You can then compare the drug prescribed with the drug dispensed, to reconcile any differences. This helps prevent medication errors.
Over 35,000 drug imprints are contained in this database, including descriptions for tablets, capsules and liquids. They are keyed to any 11-digit National Drug Code (NDC) file, including those provided by First DataBank.
Comprehensive Information Included
This module gives you access to the following information:
- Multiple descriptors—tablet and capsule descriptions, including dosage form, coating, color(s), imprint(s), "score" marks (for tablets) and shape
- Descriptions for liquids, including color, flavor and clarity of product
- Flexibility in determining which data fields should be presented to the end user—on-screen or printed
- Varied search capabilities designed to enhance drug identification
Many Varied Applications
Use of drug imprints can:
- Assist in reducing the potential for—and costs of—medication errors, by allowing the healthcare professional to match the drug being dispensed or administered with the description of the prescribed drug, anywhere throughout the drug therapy process.
- Fit into virtually any healthcare workflow.
- Become part of a medication administration safety program.
- Assist in patient compliance by enhancing patient education as required by Medicare COP, JCAHO and OBRA '90 regulations.
- Allow the patient or caregiver to verify the medication at home, when printed on a patient drug education leaflet.
- Aid healthcare professionals in identifying a patient's unpackaged, unlabeled or unknown drug products.
- Assist manufacturers and repackagers in verifying products dispensed using mass fill processes; also demonstrate good manufacturing practices for the FDA.
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