The process required the anesthesiologist to scan every drug ampoule and syringe label for accuracy verification during drug dispensing, premixing, administration and documentation. Two weeks after ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recalled more than 580,000 bottles of a blood pressure medication. Is your medication ...

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Internal data collection suggested that approximately 60% of medications were without a bar code. [2] Therefore, we projected that 3 million medication doses would require repackaging or the addition ...

The FDA has announced a nationwide recall of several lots of prazosin hydrochloride capsules, used to treat high blood ...

Most adverse drug events are caused by one or more system breakdowns within the medication-use process. [1] At our institution, we have implemented bar-code scanning during the pharmacy distribution ...