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

Geoffrey A. Rickrode; Marva E. Williams-Lowe; Jane L. Rippe; Robert H. Theriault

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

June 13, 2007

Rickrode GA, Williams-Lowe ME, Rippe JL, et al. Am J Health Syst Pharm. 2007;64(11):1197-202.

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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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