Code of Maine Rules
02 - DEPARTMENT OF PROFESSIONAL AND FINANCIAL REGULATION
392 - MAINE BOARD OF PHARMACY
Part 4 - DISPENSING PRESCRIPTION DRUGS
Chapter 19 - RECEIPT AND HANDLING OF PRESCRIPTION DRUG ORDERS
Section 392-4-19-6 - Dispensing Records

Current through 2024-38, September 18, 2024

A pharmacy shall create a dispensing record for each original, refill and transferred prescription drug order that it fills. The dispensing record must include, at a minimum, the following information:

1. The original written or faxed prescription drug order, or record of a telephone or computer prescription drug order;

2. Quantity dispensed, if different than the quantity specified in the prescription drug order;

3. Date of dispensing;

4. Prescription number or its equivalent;

5. Identifiers (e.g., initials) for the individual pharmacists who-

A. Performed the drug utilization review; and

B. Performed the final check to ensure that the prescription was correct in all respects and ready for dispensing.

The pharmacist is responsible for all work done by others to which the pharmacist has affixed his identifier or permitted another to do so.

6. Documentation of compliance with 32 MRSA §13781, relating to generic and therapeutically equivalent substitution; and

7. Records of refills to date.

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