OBJECTIVES To calculate the costs associated with implementing and operating an inpatient bar-code medication administration (BCMA) system in the community hospital setting and to estimate the cost per harmful error prevented. STUDY DESIGN This is a retrospective, observational study. Costs were calculated from the hospital perspective and a cost-consequence analysis was performed to estimate...

As if hospitals didn’t already have enough concerns about the FDA’s changes to its existing bar-code rules for drugs, health systems also have to worry about a first-time FDA regulation mandating a unique device identifier (UDI) system for medical devices. Hospitals that want to take advantage of devices that are likely to be marked with GS1-compatible bar codes will have to upgrade their softw...

An ultrasensitive nanoparticle-based biomolecule detection method, known as BioBar-Coding (BBC) was recently developed by the Mirkin Group, which utilizes magnetic microparticle probes (MMP) functionalized with monoclonal antibodies that specifically bind to the target of interest [prostate-specific antigen (PSA) in this case; PSA is a prostate cancer marker and a potential breast cancer marker...

Preventing medication errors by using a barcode administration system has become prevalent in patient safety. Analyses of data captured by bar code systems provide opportunities to understand the actual situation at the point of care. Our study aims at understanding issues of medication safety as well as investigating measures taken to prevent medication accidents, by analyzing data captured by...

AIM To assess the effect of the use of bar code readers and programmable keypads for entry of specimen details and results in two microbiology laboratories. METHODS The solutions selected in each laboratory are described. The benefits resulting from the implementation were measured in two ways. The speed of data entry and error reduction were measured by observation. A questionnaire was compl...

A signal amplification strategy based on bio-bar-code functionalized magnetic nanoparticles as labels holds promise to improve the sensitivity and detection limit of the detection of DNA hybridization and single-nucleotide polymorphisms by flow injection chemiluminescence assays.

This paper proposes high-rate full-diversity spacefrequency trellis code (SFTC) designs, which achieve the full diversity advantage at high transmission rate, for frequency selective fading channels. The proposed SFTC are derived based on the concept of concatenated space-time block code (STBC) and multiple trellis coded modulation (MTCM) encoder constructions. The existing SFTC designs only pr...

Automatic identification technology such as RFID promises to connect physical objects with virtual representations or even computational capabilities. However, even though RFID tags are continuously falling in price, their widespread use on consumer items is still several years away, rendering large-scale experiments with such an “internet of things” difficult. Much more ubiquitous are printed ...

Automatic identification technology such as RFID promises to connect physical objects with virtual representations or even computational capabilities. However, even though RFID tags are continuously falling in price, their widespread use on consumer items is still several years away, rendering large-scale experiments with such an “internet of things” difficult. Much more ubiquitous are printed ...

A multifunctional electrochemical strategy based on a dual-aptamer for the detection of adenosine and thrombin in one-pot was developed, by coupling the enhancement of bio-bar-code technology and anodic stripping voltammetry (ASV).