Journal article
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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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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Keele University
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Aegate Limited
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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
- DOI:
- ISSN:
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2044-6055
- Source identifiers:
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666341
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- Language:
- English
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- Pubs id:
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pubs:666341
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- pubs:666341
- Deposit date:
- 2017-01-12
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- © 2016, Naughton, et al
- Copyright date:
- 2016
- Notes:
- This is an Open Access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
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