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Abbott bar codes hospital injectables

Abbott Laboratories, Abbott Park, IL, reported late in March that it had completed its initiative to apply unit-of-use bar codes to all of its hospital injectable pharmaceuticals and intravenous solutions.

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Abbott has been working for several years to study and implement this plan, and it announced its commitment last July, well ahead of U.S. Food and Drug Administration hearings on bar coding of pharmaceuticals. Bar codes allow a nurse to scan a patient’s wristband, the nurse’s badge, and the drug to be administered to match all with a computerized list, all to prevent medication errors.

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