Emeka Adeyemo’s dose adjustment used to take three weeks and involve four people. It now takes an afternoon and involves one.
The two weeks after a discharge are, statistically, when things come apart: doubled doses, discontinued drugs still being taken, side effects nobody warned about.
Roughly one in six calls finds a duplication — the same drug arriving under two names from two prescribers who were each entirely correct.
We were adding a queue to a decision the pharmacist had already made. That was the whole delay.
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The pharmacist has prescribing rights in this service, which removes a referral step that used to add three weeks to every change.
Median time from identifying a needed change to making it fell from nineteen days to two.
