Bar codes being used to curb medical errors
Doctors’ illegible handwriting, poorly communicated orders and drugs with names that sound alike — these are among the chief culprits that lead to patients receiving the wrong drug, dose or concentration, a phenomenon that causes at least one death every day in the U.S. and injures about 1.3 million annually, according to the federal Food and Drug Administration .
To help prevent the recurrence of common...
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