Any unintended but avoidable incident that may result in medication misuse, threatens patient safety, and causes unpleasant and serious effects while medication is administered by a patient or health professional is defined as a medication administration error (Shah, Lo, Babich, Tsao & Bansback, 2016). Medication refers to “any ordered drug (except oxygen) and intravenous ?uid by any route” (Rodriguez-Gonzalez et al., 2012, p. Medication administration errors are a life-threatening concern of public health interest (Wideman, Whittler & Anderson, 2005). Keywords: barcode medication technology, medication errors, nurses, socio-technical model Introduction Nurse leaders should endeavour to be involved in and committed to the implementation of BCMA and other health information technologies at their workplace to improve patient care. Further research such as qualitative and theory-based studies need to be carried out since there was a paucity of literature in that regard. Factors contributing to this variation can be linked to six of the eight components of the socio-technical model proposed by Sittig and Singh in 2010. The impact of BCMA in reducing medication administration errors vary based on several factors including clinical setting, technology related setbacks and nurse related problems. The socio-technical model by Sittig and Singh (2010) was used as a conceptual framework in the paper. This paper reviewed and assessed the body of literature on the factors affecting the impact of barcode medication administration technology in reducing medication errors by nurses in hospital settings. Barcode medication administration technology (BCMA) was introduced to facilitate medication administration by health professionals, especially nurses.
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