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Our hospital does not have bedside barcoding yet. I would like to know for hospitals who have it, whether a nurse administering a premixed
ready-to-administer IVPB would be scanning the manufacturer's barcode on the bag, the bar-code on the patient's label, or whether if a patient's label is scanned and the scan detects that it is a premixed bag, it would prompt you to scan the manufacturer's bar code instead. This is a concern in the event a label is AFFIXED TO THE WRONG BAG and scanning the patient's label confirms a patient's "five rights" when receiving the drug, but in fact it is the WRONG drug.
For hospitals who strictly scan patient's IVPB labels, would this change your mind about considering scanning the manufacturer's bar code on PRE-MIXED IVPBs?

Florina Chuy, RPh
Pharmacy Training Coordinator
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
1275 York Avenue
Schwartz-714
New York, NY 10065
chuyf@mskcc.org