Dispensing error rate in a highly automated mail-service pharmacy practice.

Russell Teagarden; Becky Nagle; Ronald E Aubert; Calvin Wasdyke; Patrick Courtney; Robert S Epstein

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Dispensing error rate in a highly automated mail-service pharmacy practice.

November 23, 2005

Teagarden R, Nagle B, Aubert RE, et al. Pharmacotherapy. 2005;25(11):1629-35.

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The authors found an error rate of less than 1 error per 1,000 prescriptions dispensed though a mail-service pharmacy and conclude that the highly automated process contributed to the low rate of error.

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