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This thread is primarily for the retail people, but I'm sure this isn't confined to just the retail setting, so hospital pharmacists feel free to chime in too.
I was wondering how many others out there are amazed at the volume of errors that are sent to our pharmacies on a daily basis? My store does ~1500 rx's/week, and I would say that on any given week, I have to call the doctor for about 40-50 errors that would have led to patient harm if I just let it slide by. My partner does the same, so this makes about 80-100 of 1500 rx's that have blatant errors. Not the highest success rate by any means.
These mistakes can be anything from the wrong patient, wrong drug, duplicate therapies, allergies, interactions, or just quantities/strengths that don't make sense. In regards to e-rx, sometimes I feel that the doctors/nurses are just typing "asdklfa" in the program and hitting "send" without checking anything at all.
It is astonishing to me that they are allowed to operate with this level of ineptitude. If we filled prescriptions with this rate of success we would all be jobless. How are the doctors allowed a free pass?
I was wondering how many others out there are amazed at the volume of errors that are sent to our pharmacies on a daily basis? My store does ~1500 rx's/week, and I would say that on any given week, I have to call the doctor for about 40-50 errors that would have led to patient harm if I just let it slide by. My partner does the same, so this makes about 80-100 of 1500 rx's that have blatant errors. Not the highest success rate by any means.
These mistakes can be anything from the wrong patient, wrong drug, duplicate therapies, allergies, interactions, or just quantities/strengths that don't make sense. In regards to e-rx, sometimes I feel that the doctors/nurses are just typing "asdklfa" in the program and hitting "send" without checking anything at all.
It is astonishing to me that they are allowed to operate with this level of ineptitude. If we filled prescriptions with this rate of success we would all be jobless. How are the doctors allowed a free pass?