title: Designing a patient care medication and recording system that uses bar code technology.
abstract: Bar code technology has been implemented in a variety of health care applications to facilitate computerized data entry. In this report, the author describes the potential application of a patient medication administration and recording system that uses bar code technology for data entry. The need for nursing to collaborate with pharmacy and information systems developers is discussed, and issues for consideration in the design of the medication system are outlined.
authors.affiliation: University of Michigan School of Nursing, Ann Arbor 48109-0482.
authors.forename: Y M
authors.initials: YM
authors.lastname: Abdoo
mesh_terms: D004358:Drug Therapy / Q000451:nursing*; D001330:Electronic Data Processing; D006801:Humans; D009736:Nursing Process; D009737:Nursing Records; D012985:Software Design