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Bar codes to be added to drugs in hospitals
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WASHINGTON - Almost all medications given in the hospital soon
must bear a supermarket-style bar code that health workers will match
to patients to help ensure they get the right dose of the right drug
at the right time.
The code, just an eighth of an inch tall on individual pill packs,
is a major new requirement for manufacturers. The Food and Drug
Administration says the requirement could cut in half the drug errors
now thought to kill about 7,000 hospitalized patients a year.
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