title: Recommendations of the task force on codes and machine-readable symbols.
abstract: The task force recommends the use of common, numeric codes for identifying blood, blood components, blood type, collection center and similar information. The task force further recommends the use of the CODABAR and/or the OCR-B symbol for representing these codes in machine-readable form. Blood product codes, label formats, symbol format control characters and a check digit system are recommended.
mesh_terms: D001771:Blood Banks; D001789:Blood Group Antigens; D001800:Blood Specimen Collection; D001803:Blood Transfusion / Q000592:standards*; D003142:Communication; D006801:Humans; D010355:Patient Identification Systems
chemical_list: D001789:Blood Group Antigens