Quote from: anastasialea on June 21, 2018, 09:24:08 AM
Hi,
Has anybody experienced their medication dose of Evorel being reduced without proper/full consent from the patient?
It occurred to me recently.
anastasia
What are the specific details, please?
Was your previous dose not available? Is this a generic substitution? Is there a possibility of a dispensing error?
Pharmacists do, as part of their job requirements, evaluate the possibility of prescription errors. If a possible error is noticed, then the Pharmacist must ask the prescribing doctor to verify the dose or adjust it to a recommended dose. This may be done verbally between the Pharmacist and the prescriber and the patient never know about it.
In the US, Pharmacists are not allowed to change a drug dose on their own, unless there are written protocols between a specific doctor and pharmacist. This usually happens in a hospital or clinic setting where doctors and pharmacists work together.
In my working life as a Pharmacist, I routinely monitored every order for a select group of very troublesome drugs where the dose was critical due to bad side effects and the need to get the dose high enough to be effective. The protocols I worked under mandated a consultation with the prescriber before any changes were made.
