Dispensing: Pharmacy Information Systems

Medication delivery and administration, especially in inpatient settings, are complex and error prone processes. The multiple dimensions and levels of detail to which specific drugs must be specified, the numbers of handoffs and transformations (calculation and conversion) of patient and drug specific data that must occur, and the manipulations (compounding, dilution, and dose preparation), make medication delivery highly vulnerable to variation and errors of commission and omission.

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