Effectiveness of Barcode System in Reducing Medication Errors

Running head: EVIDENCE BASED NURSING RESEARCH
EVIDENCE BASED NURSING RESEARCH
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Introduction:
Verification of the accuracy of information and medical treatment of a patient as well
as the other medical equipment and supplies that is used in order to provide a better and
effective care to the patient is an essential part of a better health care service. A barcode
system is used to track and manage the information of the patient, equipment used, records
and various other healthcare tool (Chen et al., 2018). The barcode system has been adopted
by the healthcare systems in order to avoid the occurrence of any kind of medical error in
patient treatment. in the assignment an annotated bibliography is to be conducted which is
focused on the PICOT QUESTION provided.
Does the barcode system reduce medication errors?
An annotated bibliography is a range of citations of some articles, books or
documents where each citation is briefly described and evaluated in to paragraphs which is
usually of 150 words. The aim of the annotation of the articles is to guide the people of the
accuracy, quality and relevance of the article that has been cited (Miller et al., 2017).

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Bowdle, T. A., Jelacic, S., Nair, B., Togashi, K., Caine, K., Bussey, L., ... &
Merry, A. F. (2018). Facilitated self-reported anaesthetic medication
errors before and after implementation of a safety bundle and
barcode-based safety system. British journal of anaesthesia, 121(6),
1338-1345.
The researcher in the study uses facilitated self- reporting approach for error where
they included barcode-based medication safety-system in order to assess the occurrence of
error before and after the use of the barcode system. During the year of 2002 to 2003 there
were paper forms used but after the year of 2014, use of barcode safety system was
implemented which showed a different result from that of the result found in 2003. Around
24264 computerised report forms were performed after the healthcare systems implemented
the barcode-based medication safety system (Rebello et al., 2016). The result showed that
there were 56 reports showing errors which was around 0.23% and six reports showed
intercepted errors which was 0.025% of the overall. The result showed that the
implementation of the barcode system has decreased the occurrence of medical error in the
health care system in a drastic manner and has improved the medication administration for
the patients (Bowdle et al., 2018).
Truitt, E., Thompson, R., Blazey-Martin, D., Nisai, D., & Salem, D. (2016).
Effect of the implementation of barcode technology and an electronic
medication administration record on adverse drug events. Hospital
pharmacy, 51(6), 474-483.
The research was conducted for the analysis of the effect of barcode system in a
healthcare setting by a retrospective comparison between post barcode-based medication