Machine readable labels in the blood transfusion service - Proceedings of a Symposium held on June 13th, 1979 (Paperback, Softcover Repri)

Dr W J Jenkins In 1977 when the Sheffield Transfusion Centre took delivery of the first GROUPAMATIC blood grouping machine in the UK it was equipped with a sample identification system involving complicated and expensive disposable punched cards. In fact, the cards were so expensive that Dr Wagstaff was unable to find the revenue to support the system. A year later, when Brentwood took delivery of a GROUPAMATIC, we were faced with the same problem, but by chance we heard that KONTRON was developing a laser scanning system for bar code labels and we were able to have our machine modified. Subsequently the Sheffield machine was altered to take the bar code scanner. At about the same time the Bristol Centre was helping TECHNICON with the development of the AUTO GROUPER C-16, and fortunately they decided on a laser reader of the same type for bar code identification. Thus there were three centres with the capability for reading bar codes on blood grouping machines and it became necessary to find someone to produce the bar code labels. There was only on~ printer in the UK who could produce labels to the required specification. To cut the costs of printing, and in the hope of avoiding a wide variation in codes, I invited representatives of centres interested in the problem to a meeting, where we set up what we called the Group of Six. This later became an official Working Party of the Regional Transfusion Directors.

General

Imprint:	Kluwer Academic Publishers
Country of origin:	Netherlands
Release date:	May 1981
First published:	May 1981
Editors:	J Jenkins
Dimensions:	297 x 210mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	99
Edition:	Softcover Repri
ISBN-13:	978-0-85200-344-2
Categories:	Books > Medicine > Clinical & internal medicine > Haematology
LSN:	0-85200-344-7
Barcode:	9780852003442

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