patient own supply of meds

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Joanie Cook
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patient own supply of meds

Hi,

I'm working on a project with a pharmacy student and would greatly appreciate any articles/info/data/policies about errors associated with patients using their own supply of meds in the hospital.

Throughout my career I've seen several unfortunate errors. One was a patient with HIV who ended up going without their meds for a week... pharmacy thought they had their own and nurses were charting as med unavailable. Just saw another where pharmacy was sending 2 x 100 mg caps of a med and the patient brought their own 200 mg caps... but the MAR still instructed the RN to give 2 caps... so the patient got double the dose.

Thanks,

Joanie Cook, Pharm.D, BCPS

joancook@centura.org

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