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Recommendations of the Task Force on Codes and Machine‐Readable Symbols
Author(s) -
Thatcher R.K.
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
vox sanguinis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.68
H-Index - 83
eISSN - 1423-0410
pISSN - 0042-9007
DOI - 10.1111/j.1423-0410.1981.tb00687.x
Subject(s) - symbol (formal) , task (project management) , computer science , task force , numerical digit , arithmetic , product (mathematics) , programming language , engineering , mathematics , systems engineering , geometry , public administration , political science
Abstract. The task force recommends the use of common, numeric codes for identifying blood, blood components, blood type, collection center and similar information. The task force further recommends the use of the CODABAR and/or the OCR‐B symbol for representing these codes in machine‐readable form. Blood product codes, label formats, symbol format control characters and a check digit system are recommended.