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Using a bar-coded medication administration system to prevent medication errors in a community hospital network.
Sakowski J, Leonard T, Colburn S, et al. Am J Health Syst Pharm. 2005;62:2619-2625.

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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