Computerization Can Create Safety Hazards: A Bar-Coding Near Miss

  1. Clement J. McDonald, MD
  1. From Regenstrief Institute, Indianapolis, Indiana.
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      Figure. A typical bar code font (bottom), compared with the font size of a typical party name tag (top).

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