Expert's Opinion

Individual Dose Identification: Coding and Marking for New Dimension in Patient Health and Safety

Stricter serialization practices – requiring identification down to the individual dose of a pharmaceutical product – could help to mitigate errors.

By: Ian Chapman

Strategic Manager for Digital Coding, Domino Print

Editor’s Note: Ian Chapman is strategic manager for digital coding, Domino Printing Sciences, a global coding, marking, and printing technology provider. On a global level, medication errors are one of the leading causes of avoidable harm in healthcare worldwide. It is estimated that the total annual cost for medication errors is USD 42 billion; some 5% of all patients admitted to the hospital experience a medication error; and an average hospital will have one medication error every 23...

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