VHA issues quality guidelines for bar coding
Executive Briefings Digest, April 25, 2006
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The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) in February 2006 issued a directive that provides a set of policies and procedures for establishing a pharmacy bar-code quality plan that involves unit-dose packaging and bar-code labeling. The VHA requires that each facility have a written bar-code quality plan in place within each inpatient pharmacy and that all medications have machine-readable bar-coded labels.
The directive states that the pharmacy chief or designee is responsible for
- establishing a baseline using data collected from the first quarter and measuring progress over time
- reporting results and success rate percentages to the Bar Code Medication Administration coordinator
- ensuring follow up on any areas of concern from results reporting
- ensuring that data collecting, reporting, tracking, and trending is achieved within the prescribed time frame
- ensuring that medications dispensed have readable bar codes
Click here to read the directive.
Source: Hospital Pharmacy Regulation Report
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