Is it legitimate? Strategies for assessing questionable prescriptions.
Pharmacists are responsible to screen prescriptions for legitimacy. Pharmacists must be alert for forged or altered prescriptions. Pharmacists must strike a careful balance between diversion control and the medical needs of legitimate patients. Although regulatory scrutiny remains a concern for some practitioners, fear of investigation is not a valid reason to deny patients needed medication.
Seeger
Vickie B
VB
Drug Enforcement Administration, Office of Diversion Control, Washington, DC, USA.
Vivian
Jesse C
JC
D003657:Decision Making; D011307:Drug Prescriptions; D005607:Fraud; D007885:Legislation, Pharmacy; D014481:United States