院外(いんがい)処方(しょほう)

いんがいしょほう
noun
out-of-hospital dispensing; external prescription
medicalhealth
1. out-of-hospital dispensing; external prescription
The system in which a hospital issues a prescription and the patient has it filled at an independent pharmacy outside the facility. This is now the standard practice in Japan under the separation of prescribing and dispensing.
この病院(びょういん)は院外(いんがい)処方(しょほう)です。
This hospital uses out-of-hospital dispensing.
院外(いんがい)処方(しょほう)の場合(ばあい)、処方箋(しょほうせん)を持(も)って薬局(やっきょく)へ行(い)く。
With out-of-hospital dispensing, you take the prescription to a pharmacy.
医薬分業(いやくぶんぎょう)が進(すす)み、院外(いんがい)処方(しょほう)が一般的(いっぱんてき)になった。
As the separation of prescribing and dispensing advanced, out-of-hospital dispensing became the norm.

The patient receives a prescription at the hospital and fills it at a separate 調剤(ちょうざい)薬局(やっきょく) (dispensing pharmacy). Reflects 医薬分業(いやくぶんぎょう), the policy of separating prescribing from dispensing.

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Compare: 院内(いんない)処方(しょほう) (in-hospital dispensing)
Related: 処方箋(しょほうせん) (prescription)
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Added 2026.7.16 12:17 · Revised 2026.10.5 11:11
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