Interaction, Unlicensed dose, Unlicensed use of a medicine
when you are checking prescribed medicines for a patient and you noticed either an Interaction or Unlicensed dose or unlicensed use of a medicine, you cannot find any record saying it was checked (e.g. doctor and patient awares of unlicensed use, off-licensed dose used by a patient) before
Q: what would you do (honestly)?
A) assume it was checked by pharmacist the very first time the script presented because it is a repeat (received this regularly every month) and believed this is a common practice and every pharmacists do thing this way
B) it must be from hospital prescriber and the doctor and the carer/patient must have known about this already
C) you telephoned whoever you can to get to the root of this, you queried and recorded what you have done
D) is it a repeat, yes it is, then it must be okay
E) staff told you it was checked before by another pharmacist but just not recorded
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