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Medication processing: closing the provider-pharmacy gap.

R A Korpman
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The provision of medications to patients is not a departmental task managed by the pharmacy. Rather, it is an enterprise-wide task with management shared by physicians, pharmacists, and nurses. Only automation approaches that integrate all three axes in real time will be able to effectively support the desired goal: the optimal provision of the proper medication to the proper patient at the proper time.

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Clinical Pharmacy Information SystemsDrug TherapyInterdepartmental RelationsMedication Systems, HospitalPatient Care TeamPharmacy Service, HospitalSystems IntegrationUnited StatesJournal Article

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R A Korpman. 1998. Medication processing: closing the provider-pharmacy gap.. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10181561/

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