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Why AI Dispensing Will Make You a Better Pharmacist

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Ensures Correct Dosages : Verifies that the correct dosage is dispensed, reducing the risk of medication errors. This capability: Identifies Drug Interactions : Alerts pharmacists to potential drug interactions and contraindications, allowing for prompt intervention.

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The Silent War in Inpatient

RX Note

However, a significant number of dedicated pharmacists work diligently in inpatient settings, ensuring accurate medication dispensing to hospitalized patients. Not All Oral Doses Are Applicable to IV Doses It is not uncommon to encounter new physicians, particularly recent graduates, prescribing oral medications at IV dosages and vice versa.

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Spotlight on Hospital Pharmacy

UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy

There, her day ranges from entering prescriptions into the processing system and verifying prescription orders for appropriate dosages and indications for use to patient counseling, guiding and assisting technicians in their duties and mentoring students.

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How Long Until AI Starts to Replace Pharmacists

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Dosage Recommendations : AI tools such as Dosis can analyse patient-specific data (e.g. age, weight, kidney function) to recommend appropriate dosages, reducing the risk of over- or under-dosing. Complex Compounding Custom Medication Compounding : Preparing customised medications for patients with specific needs (e.g.

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ISMP Safety Brief: Prevent Additional Patient Harm and Deaths From Accidental Daily Methotrexate Dosing

National Association of Boards of Pharmacy

The error was discovered three weeks later during patient counseling with a pharmacist when the patient requested a refill. The community pharmacy dispensed a three-month quantity of medication but provided instructions on the label to take 15 mg (six 2.5 mg tablets) once daily.

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Prescribing Red Flags and Suspicious Controlled Substance Orders: Current Cautionary Tales

FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

Unusual Amounts and Dosages Dispensing high doses of opioids in quantities far exceeding the daily morphine milligram equivalent (“MME”) dose recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (“CDC”). The CDC has advised clinicians to carefully assess increasing total opioid dosage to greater than 50 MMEs per day).

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Clinical Pharmacy

RX Note

Patient counselling Assess and counsel patients on device techniques such as insulin or inhalers. May suggest patients to purchase Aerochamber if needed.