Increased Mail-Order Use Could Temper Monthly Spike In Medication Errors, PCMA Says
This article was originally published in The Pink Sheet Daily
Executive Summary
Patients should consider mail-order pharmacy following a study in Pharmacotherapy which found a 25% increase in fatal medication errors in the first week of the month, PCMA says. An increased workload at pharmacies likely contributes to the greater number of errors, the study states.
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