Downloads
- Advancing Patient Safety Coalition urges OMB to release proposed UDI rule (9/19/2011)
- Premier Position Statement on medical device identification (MDI) and (UDI) (2/2011)
- Bar-coding surgical sponges reduces risk of loss, researchers find
Premier Safety Share Newsletter - (09/23/08) - Premier talking points: Unique device identification for medical devices
- Premier comments in response to FDA’s August 11, 2006 Request for Information (11/9/06)
- Advancing Patient Safety Coalition letter supporting UDI (11/9/06)
- Letter from Premier urging FDA to implement mandatory UDI (11/9/06)
- Strengthening FDA's Postmarket Program for Medical Devices (11/9/06)
- Federal Register. Vol. 71, No. 155. Notices (8/11/06)
- ERG Final report: Unique identification for medical devices (3/22/06)
- Ensuring the Safety of Marketed Medical Devices: CDRH's Medical Device Postmarket Safety Program (1/18/06)
- Report on Meeting to Discuss Unique Device Identification (1/16/06)
- ECRI white paper: Automatic Identification of Medical Devices, Final Version (8/17/05)
- Report on Meeting to Discuss Unique Device Identification (6/14/05)
- Congressional sessions letter (5/27/05)
- Hospitals urge FDA to require bar codes on medical devices. Premier, Inc. press release (5/9/05)
- Draft Guidance for Industry: Bar Code Label Requirements - Q & A FDA (6/7/05)
- Bar Code Label Requirements For Human Drug Products and Biological Products; Final Rule (2/26/04)
- Premier expresses support for bar coding requirements. (2/25/04)
- Bar Code Medication Administration: Conference Report. (8/25/03)
- Premier's comments on bar code proposed rule Comment letter to FDA; (6/11/03)
- The effect of barcode-enabled point-of-care technology on patient safety: A literature review. Bridge Medical, Inc. October 2002.
- Promoting and standardizing bar coding on medication packaging: reducing errors and improving care. National Coordinating Council for Medication Error Reporting and Prevention (6/27/01)
Publications describing how bar coding can be planned as part of an overall strategy (prepared by the California HealthCare Foundation):
- Addressing Medication Errors in Hospitals - a Framework for Developing a Plan. July 2001
- Addressing Medication Errors - Ten Tools. July 2001
- A Primer on Physician Order Entry September 2000