According to a research study published in BMJ Quality and Safety, medication errors can occur in 20 to 25% of dose administrations in the inpatient setting. That is an astounding number – and one ...

Featured in many sci-fi stories as a quicker, more efficient way to record and transfer information, barcodes are both extremely commonplace today, and still amazingly poorly understood by many.

When nearly 20 years ago, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a new rule 1 that pharmaceutical manufacturers must include a linear bar code on all immediate drug packages that included each ...