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Complex generics: The need and challenges

Quality Matters

Accounting for approximately 90% of prescriptions filled in the United States , generic medicines are essential to increasing patient access to important drug therapies. Generics are dispensed 97% of the time when one is available.

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Using My Medical Advocate Skills To Detect And Eliminate Errors With My Girlfriend’s Prescription

The Happy PharmD

I decided to calculate the dosage quickly. A 5ml dosage contains 1.8g Or maybe there might be a different dosage of what you (the resident) want. Filling A Dexamethasone Prescription My girlfriend was taking Dexamethasone oral solution. It was available at a dosage of 0.5mg/5 ml. of NeoCalglucon syrup.

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How Pharmacists Can Use Artificial Intelligence To Advance Their Practice: Insights From ChatGPT

ID Stewardship

Patient Education and Adherence : AI chatbots or virtual assistants can be developed to provide patients with on-demand information about their medications, dosages, potential side effects, and adherence strategies. Faster and more accurate prescription filling leads to increased patient satisfaction.

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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).

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ProxsysRx’s MedServRx: The Prescription-Drug Advantage For Patients And Their Providers

Proxsys Rx

Consider this cost-plus drug company model A recently-launched company uses a Cash Pay business model to sell the generic drugs they manufacturer, offering end users prescription discounts based on their costs (plus a 15% markup and a pharmacy-labor fee) for all prescriptions filled through them.