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Return to Newsletter ARE YOU READY TO GO TO THE BEDSIDE? New outsourced service provides unit dose packaging and bar coding Unit-dose medication dispensing was developed in the 1960s to support nurses in safe medication administration and to reduce the medication waste. Today, JCAHO considers unit dosing the standard of practice and many studies have demonstrated its effectiveness in reducing medication errors. Now there’s an easy way for you to provide the safety and efficiency of unit dose packaging. Introducing Unit Dose Solutions (UDS), a new provider of outsourced packaging services for hospitals and long-term care facilities. UDS takes bulk drugs directly from your wholesaler of choice and delivers them to your facility in unit dose packages with customized, bar-coded labels. Unit Dose Solutions can help you achieve the five rights of patient administration easily and cost effectively: right dose, right patient, right drug, right time and right route. Bar-coded labels ensure the right patient gets the right drug at the right time; unit-of-use packaging can ensure that the drugs are given in the right dose through the right route. Additionally, through their proprietary customization technology platform, UDS can go beyond the capabilities of any other packager in the U.S. by embedding in your product bar codes: expiration dating, FDA recall information, inventory control data and alternative product identifiers (such as catalog numbers) at your direction and for every dose you plan to deliver to the bedside. UDS provides an integrated supply chain –allowing them to provide seamless service, as an extension of your pharmacy service. For more information, visit www.baxa.com/uds. |
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