The Institute for Safe Medication Practices, which is focused on preventing medication errors, added 82 new drug pairs to its list of medicines requiring special safeguards to reduce error risk.
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BETHESDA, Md. (December 10, 2020) Mail-order prescriptions shipped in standard bubble-padded envelopes during winter and summer months are likely to spend a substantial portion of time outside the recommended safe temperature range for most medications, according to research presented at the American Society for Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) Midyear Clinical Meeting and Exhibition. If a medication is stored improperly during the mailing process, and subsequently arrives to the patient altered, either chemically or physically, then patient safety could be at risk, said Karlee Paloukos, a pharmacy student at University of Utah and researcher on the study. Patients should be warned of these risks and have the option to fill their prescriptions at a local pharmacy, where temperature storage logs are meticulously tracked to ensure the integrity of the dispensed medications, at the exact same cost.
Mail-order prescription drugs are exposed to potentially unsafe temperatures up to 87% of the time while they are in transit, an analysis presented during the American Society for Health-System Pharmacists meeting.
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