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    • Development of the Leapfrog Group's bar code medication administration standard to address hospital inpatient medication safety.
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    • Austin JM, Bane A, Gooder V, et al. J Patient Saf. 2022;18:526-530.
    Use of bar code medication administration (BCMA) technology in hospitals has been shown to decrease medication errors at the time of administration. In 2016, the Leapfrog Group implemented a standard for BCMA use as part of its hospital survey. This article describes the development, testing, and subsequent refinement of the BCMA standard.
    Hospital patient safety grades may misrepresent hospital performance.
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    • Hwang W, Derk J, LaClair M, et al. J Hosp Med. 2014;9:111-5.
    According to this study, hospitals that opted out of Leapfrog's patient safety survey would have received a better grade if they were scored by the same methodology as participating hospitals. This finding reveals limitations in Leapfrog's approach for accurately reporting hospital performances.
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