Patient Misidentifications Caused by Errors in Standard Bar Code Technology | Zendy

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Patient Misidentifications Caused by Errors in Standard Bar Code Technology

Author(s) -

Marion L. Snyder,

Alexis B. Carter,

Karen Jenkins,

Corinne R. Fantz

Publication year - 2010

Publication title -

clinical chemistry

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.705

H-Index - 218

eISSN - 1530-8561

pISSN - 0009-9147

DOI - 10.1373/clinchem.2010.150094

Subject(s) - bar (unit) , code (set theory) , computer science , programming language , geology , oceanography , set (abstract data type)

Bar code technology has decreased transcription errors in many healthcare applications. However, we have found that linear bar code identification methods are not failsafe. In this study, we sought to identify the sources of bar code decoding errors that generated incorrect patient identifiers when bar codes were scanned for point-of-care glucose testing and to develop solutions to prevent their occurrence.

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