Using a bar-coded medication administration system to prevent medication errors in a community hospital network.

Julie Sakowski; Thomas Leonard; Susan Colburn; Beverly Michaelsen; Timothy Schiro; James Schneider; Jeffrey M. Newman

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Using a bar-coded medication administration system to prevent medication errors in a community hospital network.

June 17, 2010

Sakowski J, Leonard T, Colburn S, et al. American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy. 2005;62(24).

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The authors examined records from six hospitals and found that point-of-care bar-coding was an effective medication error prevention mechanism despite some evidence of warning fatigue and workarounds.

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