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Clinical Pharmacy

RX Note

In the UK, the unification of the prescription and the administration meant this document need to remain on the hospital ward and required the pharmacist to visit the ward to order medicines. Clinical pharmacy developed from the presence of pharmacists in these patient areas and their interest in promoting safer medicines use.

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Prescribing Red Flags and Suspicious Controlled Substance Orders: Current Cautionary Tales

FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

Unusual Amounts and Dosages Dispensing high doses of opioids in quantities far exceeding the daily morphine milligram equivalent (“MME”) dose recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (“CDC”). The CDC has advised clinicians to carefully assess increasing total opioid dosage to greater than 50 MMEs per day).