title: High-speed packaging drives safety to the bedside. Medication safety begins in the pharmacy, when medications are packaged. More and more hospitals are implementing high-speed bar-coded unit-dose packaging systems to accelerate efficiency and slow down costs.
authors.affiliation: Lawnwood Regional Medical Center & Heart Institute, Fort Pierce, Fla., USA.
authors.forename: Michael R
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Deschaine
mesh_terms: D004348:Drug Labeling; D001330:Electronic Data Processing; D005431:Florida; D006801:Humans; D008508:Medication Errors / Q000517:prevention & control*; D008510:Medication Systems, Hospital; D019982:Organizational Case Studies; D010355:Patient Identification Systems; D010607:Pharmacy Service, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration*; D019095:Point-of-Care Systems; D017751:Safety Management