Implementing a bar-code assisted medication administration system: Effects on the dispensing process and user perceptions
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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...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Medical Informatics
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1386-5056
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2014.03.001