Medication-error alerts for warfarin orders detected by a bar-code-assisted medication administration system.

Fern FitzHenry; Johniene Doran; Bob Lobo; Thomas M. Sullivan; Amy L. Potts; Carly C. Feldott; Michael E. Matheny; George McCulloch; Stephen Deppen; John Doulis

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Medication-error alerts for warfarin orders detected by a bar-code-assisted medication administration system.

March 9, 2011

FitzHenry F, Doran J, Lobo B, et al. Am J Health Syst Pharm. 2011;68(5):434-41.

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The vast majority of warnings about warfarin (a commonly prescribed anticoagulant) generated by a bar-code medication administration system were clinically insignificant.

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