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| A handwritten, computerized, electronic, or verbal order from a physician (or other qualified healthcare provider) to a pharmacist, giving instructions on how to dispense a drug to a specific patient. |
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| A single preprinted sheet taken from a prescription pad; must be written in ink, not pencil and must also be recorded in the patient's medical record on a drug list for future reference. |
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| computerized physician order entry (CPOE) |
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| Using a computer to create an electronic prescription to print out and give the patient. This reduces drug errors due to illegible handwritten drug prescriptions. |
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| computerized or electronic prescription |
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| Can be typed into a medical office's software system, a copy of the prescription printed out, signed by the physician, and given to the patient or faxed directly to the pharmacy. E-prescribing refers to the physicians electronic signature being automatically imprinted at the bottom of the prescription instead of physically signing it. |
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| Given verbally over the telephone to a pharmacist in cases in which the physician cannot see the patient in the medical office. Only drugs that are not considered a controlled substance can be verbally prescribed. |
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| Written record of a physician's order to the pharmacist to dispense a drug to a patient who is in a hospital or other healthcare facility; previously physician's order sheet |
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| physician's order sheet (or record) |
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| Handwritten on a preprinted form, located as the top of the sheet in the patient's hospital or facility paper medical record. Now, most facilities have a computerized/electronic patient record, and medication orders are typed into the computer on a designated screen that serves at the physician's order sheet. |
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| verbal order (telephone order) |
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| A drug order given over the phone by a physician to a nurse at the hospital. The nurse writes the order on the physician order sheet in the patient's medical record. The physician must personally sign the order within a specific amount of time. |
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| The physician wants a drug to be dispensed and administered immediately; derived from the Latin word "statim" which means immediately. |
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| Group of specific drug orders that are part of a preprinted protocol of standardized, commonly used orders that are the same for any patient who has the same disease or is scheduled for the same surgical procedure. |
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| A drug order that originates with the hospital pharmacy and has a limited duration. Certain types of drug orders (narcotic drugs) are valid for a specific number of days. |
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| A list of all the drugs that are approved for use in the hospital and are stocked by the hospital pharmacy. Also a list of drugs that are approved by a patient's insurance plan. |
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| Use of an FDA-approved drug to treat a different disease or to give by a different route or dose from what it was originally approved for. This often results in a good therapeutic effect and its use in that was becomes commonly known and widespread. |
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| A site where drugs are received from a drug company, stored as inventory, prepared (compounded) or counted out to fill a drug medication order or a drug prescription, and then dispensed to patients or consumers. |
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| hospital pharmacy (inpatient pharmacy) |
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| Pharmacy located within a hospital; in a large hospital complex, there may be one large central pharmacy as well as several smaller satellite pharmacies. |
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| Portable cart filled and delivered by the pharmacy to the nursing area unit in a hospital or long-term care facility. It contains all doses of the patients' drugs for one nursing unit for a 24-hour period. |
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| medication administration record (MAR) |
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| Record in which the nurse charts any drugs administered to the patient; referred to as an e-MAR if it's an electronic health record. |
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| outpatient pharmacy (ambulatory pharmacy) |
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| Located in a hospital's ambulatory clinic or in a group of physicians' offices within the hospital complex, or it may be located within a freestanding ambulatory clinic elsewhere. A clinic is a healthcare facility that provides care to just one type of patient. |
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| A commercial retail drug store or a pharmacy within a grocery store; serves all types of customers in that neighborhood or community. |
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| A business that does compounding. |
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| A pharmacy via video for remote locations that have no local pharmacy. |
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| Pharmacoinformatics (pharmacy informatics) |
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| The use of a computerized database to store drug information and automate its retrieval, when needed. Uses bard code technology and pill imaging technology. |
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| Person who has training, knowledge, and skills in drugs (in some states, certification is required) and reads and fills prescriptions that are then checked for accuracy by a pharmacist. In an outpatient pharmacy, the pharmacy technician is also involved in customer service. |
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| Medication therapy management (MTM) |
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| A group of services that helps manage a patient's drug therapy by facilitating communication between the patient, pharmacist, and physician; it is a patient-centered approach that coordinates medications in the patient's personal medication record or medication profile, prevents medications errors, and improves patient compliance. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) pays the pharmacist for MTM and counseling customers about drugs they are taking. |
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