ASHP statement on bar-code verification during inventory, preparation, and dispensing of medications.
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Position The American Society of HealthSystem Pharmacists encourages hospital and health-system pharmacies to incorporate bar-code scanning into inventory management, dose preparation and packaging, and dispensing of medications. The purpose of such scanning is to ensure that drug products distributed, deployed to intermediate storage areas, or used in the preparation of patient doses are the correct products, are in-date, and have not been recalled. Such bar-code scanning should be employed in:
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عنوان ژورنال:
- American journal of health-system pharmacy : AJHP : official journal of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists
دوره 68 5 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2011