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Bar Codes on Hospital Patient Wristbands Cut Drug Errors in Half
Cheree Cleghorn | May 6, 2010
The full story says that these systems are expensive.
However, given the human and actual costs which result in hospital medication errors, this is one large hospital expense which seems like one of the best investments possible.
“Using a bar code on patient wristbands cut drug errors by more than half, researchers at one U.S. hospital reported on Wednesday.
“Researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston found a bar-code system that matched patients with their medicines reduced the chance of getting the wrong drug by 57 percent.”
Source: Reuters, May 6, 2010
