The use of technology to ensure the correct dose of medicines

Abstract The hospital pharmacy aims, in the context of patient safety, to collaborate in the process of health care and well-being, ensuring that the patient uses the prescribed medication, in the appropriate presentation, time, dose, dosage and routes, avoiding errors associated with medications. As an important measure to reduce the risk of…

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I already have the barcode on the ampoule, is it possible to improve this?

A large number of vials have always had a linear barcode. But now, we have several medications in vials with Datamatrix barcodes (two-dimensional barcodes). What do these barcodes add to the data we already have, such as the batch number and expiration date, and they also have a very low error rate.

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