Comparison of barcode scanning by pharmacy technicians and pharmacists' visual checks for final product verification.

Bryan Nian-Tsi Wang; Philip Brummond; James G. Stevenson

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Comparison of barcode scanning by pharmacy technicians and pharmacists' visual checks for final product verification.

February 17, 2016

Wang BN-T, Brummond P, Stevenson JG. Am J Health Syst Pharm. 2016;73(2):69-75.

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In this study at a satellite pharmacy of a large academic hospital, barcode scanning by technicians was better at detecting dispensing errors than visual checking by pharmacists. This supports prior research showing that barcode scanning decreases dispensing errors and adverse drug events in the hospital.

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