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Effectiveness of medicines authentication technology to detect counterfeit, recalled and expired medicines: a two-stage quantitative secondary care study.
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OBJECTIVES: To identify the authentication and detection rate of serialised medicines using medicines authentication technology.
DESIGN AND INTERVENTION: 4192 serialised medicines were entered into a hospital dispensary over two separate 8-week stages in 2015. Medicines were authenticated using secure external database cross-checking, triggered by the scanning of a two-dimensional data matrix with a unit specific 12-digit serial code. 4% of medicines included were preprogrammed with...
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1136/bmjopen-2016-013837
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Keele University
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- BMJ Publishing Group Publisher's website
- Journal:
- BMJ Open Journal website
- Volume:
- 6
- Issue:
- 12
- Pages:
- e013837
- Publication date:
- 2016-12-09
- Acceptance date:
- 2016-11-08
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2044-6055
- Source identifiers:
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666341
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- English
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- © 2016, Naughton, et al
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- 2016
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