Improving Patient Safety with Bar Code Medication Administration
“As a young child, Betty had been given penicillin, turned blue, and was rushed to the hospital. She was 15 when she got strep throat, was given penicillin, and died. Tragically, no one had even asked her about medication allergies.” (Barry B. Bialek, M.D. with Mark Crane, “10 Medical Errors that Changed the Standard of […]