Errors prevented by and associated with bar-code medication administration systems.

Gary L Cochran; Katherine J Jones; John Brockman; Anne M Skinner; Rodney W Hicks

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Errors prevented by and associated with bar-code medication administration systems.

May 2, 2007

Cochran GL, Jones KJ, Brockman J, et al. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2007;33(5):293-301, 245.

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The authors share case reports that demonstrate how bar-code medication administration (BCMA) systems prevented errors in some cases but caused them in others.

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