Avoid Taking Shortcuts With Barcodes

July 2023

A slew of mishaps will put new focus on the “right way” to use barcode scanning.

In recent situations, work-arounds have led to topiramate 50 mg being loaded into a robot instead of trazodone 50 mg...an infant getting tretinoin 0.1% cream instead of triamcinolone 0.1% cream...and a patient receiving methotrexate instead of prasugrel.

The Institute for Safe Med Practices (ISMP) is encouraging pharmacies to focus on optimizing barcode scanning in 2023-2024.

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Avoid Taking Shortcuts With Barcodes

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