New Article: The Role of Pharmacy Technicians in Documenting Patient Interactions

A new Pharmacy Connection article shares a helpful tool to support pharmacy professionals with documentation in the patient record.

Complete, up-to-date and accurate patient records enhance patient safety by supporting continuity of care, inter- and intra-professional delivery of care, and optimized decision making.

Pharmacy technicians play an important role by gathering, reviewing, entering and/or updating the information in a patient record. They can also conduct a Best Possible Medication History (BPMH) to support the pharmacist’s clinical assessment and decision-making.

The COMPARED tool provided in this article is designed to support pharmacy technicians in consistently collecting and verifying the essential components of patient information by providing examples.

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