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Lesson 4: Calculations used to determine patient-specific doses The right dose General Dosing InformationDosing is one of the most common calculation functions that you will perform during your career. Dosing involvesa series of steps, each of which will potentially contain some calculations for you to do. It starts with someguidelines, usually a dosing range and from that calculating what amount of drug the patient should receive for eachdose, and how much total drug you will thus need to fill the patient s prescription. Let s look at each Locate dosing guidelines. You decide that you need to calculate a patient-specific dose.
7. Calculate the total amount needed to fill the prescription. You will find that just because a prescriber writes the amount to be dispensed on a prescription, that does not mean that this is the amount that you will end up dispensing. Insurance plans may specify a maximum number of days of medication that a patient can get, requiring
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