Bar code scanning

Breast milk bar code scanning results in time savings and staff efficiency.

P ROVIDING BREAST MILK TO A hospitalized infant is generally a more complex process than breastfeeding a healthy baby. Mothers often must pump their milk so that it may be fed via tube or bottle, and the use of human milk fortifiers and other additives to increase calories or other nutrients may be necessary to meet the needs of a preterm or ill infant. Because pumping volumes are highly indivi...

Centralized breastmilk handling and bar code scanning improve safety and reduce breastmilk administration errors.

Safe handling and preparation of breastmilk within the hospital setting are often taken for granted, and the process may not be scrutinized until problems arise. Areas of concern focus on both risk of contamination of breastmilk feedings due to handling and fortification and risk of a breastmilk misadministration. In two phases, Children's Hospital of Orange County (Orange, CA) implemented cent...

Bar-code scanning at four health care facilities in the u.s.

THE 4 R’S OF MEDICATION SAFETY The goal of hospital administrators is to adhere to the 4 R’s of medication safety: be sure the right dose of the right medication is being given to the right patient at the right time. For years, industry literature has stated that these objectives are often hindered by incompetencies in hospitals, such as order misinterpretations, incomplete or improper transcri...

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Practice rePorts Bar-code-assisted medication administration

Pieter J. Helmons, PHarm.D., is Pharmacoeconomics Specialist, Department of Pharmacy, University of California San Diego (UCSD) Medical Center, San Diego; at the time of this study he was a Postdoctoral Fellow, UCSD Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, La Jolla. linDsay n. Wargel, PHarm.D., is Clinical Pharmacist, UCSD Medical Center; at the time of this study she was Postgrad...