EZDrugID: Voorkomen van fouten door wijzigingen verpakking

A consortium of physicians has started a movement to set mandatory standards for medication packaging to make them more easily distinguishable to avoid accidents in the operating room, the intensive care unit, the emergency department, and the clinic.
Many factors could reduce drug errors, he added. The EZDrugID program focuses on packaging, but its leaders are also concerned with any issues that increase the risk of drug error. Color-coding would add easily identifiable markings to drug bottles, special lettering could highlight a drug's name, and barcoding or special scan codes can be used to ensure that the right drug has been chosen (Emergency Medicine News, oktober 2015).
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