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Internal reporting system to improve a pharmacy's medication distribution process.

Rickrode GA, Williams-Lowe ME, Rippe JL, Theriault RH Jr. Am J Health Syst Pharm. 2007;64:1197-1202.

The authors found that a departmental reporting system implemented in the pharmacy of a rural hospital increased reporting of pharmacy errors and improved analysis of the medication distribution process.

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