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About Laurence Goldberg FRPharmS
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Laurence
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Goldberg
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United Kingdom
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About me
Independent Pharmaceutical Consultant working broadly in areas that are designed to reduce medication errors such as IV compounding robots, planning and organising seminars with a focus on medication error reduction, medical devices and environmental monitoring for hazardous drugs. Former NED of National Patient Safety Agency
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Laurence A Goldberg Ltd., Pharmaceutical Consultancy
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Owner/Director
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In unit-dose dispensing, medication is dispensed in single doses in packages that are ready to administer to the patient. It can be used for medicines administered by any route, but oral, parenteral, and respiratory routes are especially common. The system provides a fully closed-loop process where the patient, the drug and the healthcare professional are identified by machine readable codes and the drug administration process is linked directly to the electronic prescription and is fully recorded There are many variations of unit-dose dispensing. As just one example, when doctors w- Posted
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In unit-dose dispensing, medication is dispensed in single doses in packages that are ready to administer to the patient. It can be used for medicines administered by any route, but oral, parenteral, and respiratory routes are especially common. The system provides a fully closed loop process where the patient, the drug and the healthcare professional are identified by machine readable codes and the drug administration process is linked directly to the electronic prescription. and is fully recorded There are many variations of unit-dose dispensing. As just one example, when physici -
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Patients' medication when admitted to hospital
Laurence Goldberg FRPharmS replied to Jaione's topic in Processes
By the way, we call this service 'medicines reconciliation'- Posted
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Patients' medication when admitted to hospital
Laurence Goldberg FRPharmS replied to Jaione's topic in Processes
Pharmacists in U.K. hospitals take a medication history when a patient is first admitted to hospital. This will identify all prescribed medicines and medicines that the patient has bought in a pharmacy.The pharmacist then ensures that appropriate medication is made available for these inpatients.- Posted
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