Purpose: The specific objective addressed in this paper were assess the positive and the negative employee perceptions toward using the bar code to reduce the blood transfusion errors in the blood banks. Method: The data were collected using a self-administrated questionnaire with simple random sampling to select the study samples. A sample of 110 employee from 4 blood banks in Riyadh city in Saudi Arabia. The study used a descriptive analysis to answer the research question. Results: The results indicated that the employee participants agree regarding the barcode role in promoting the patient safety , reducing the medical errors, reduce the time spent in the manual documentations ,improving the operational efficiency, securing the right of the blood banks and make the workflow less complex through the elimination of a second employee to observe the transfusion processes. The participants employee disagree regarding the negative statements as reported in the answers. The educational degree hadn’t effect on using the barcode techniques, the application of the technique will not be difficult , also the participants disagree regarding the difficulty of techniques. Conclusion: The bar code computerized system detected and prevented the blood transfusion errors, thereby reducing the proportion of blood samples rejected and increasing the operational efficiency and patient safety. Declaration of interest: No support from any organization for the submitted work; no financial relationships with any organizations that might have an interest in the submitted work in the previous three years; no other relationships or activities that could appear to have influenced the submitted work.
