Home Medication Use - Multi-med packs

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Mon, 02/03/2020 - 15:34
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W Shane Edmonson
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Home Medication Use - Multi-med packs

I received a question recently from a pharmacist regarding how to address the use of a patient own med when we are unable to obtain it from another source and the only way the patient has it available is in a multi-med pack, for example Pill-Pack by Amazon. Most of our system policies state we only use home meds when we are unable to obtain them from another source and the meds are available in the dispensing pharmacies packaging. In this case the med is in the dispensing pharmacies packaging but unfortunately so are the other meds that we can supply.

Ideas on how we safely manage the multi-med packs when need to use one medication from the package?

Thanks

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