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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.
この病院は院外処方です。
This hospital uses out-of-hospital dispensing.
院外処方の場合、処方箋を持って薬局へ行く。
With out-of-hospital dispensing, you take the prescription to a pharmacy.
医薬分業が進み、院外処方が一般的になった。
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 調剤薬局 (dispensing pharmacy). Reflects 医薬分業, the policy of separating prescribing from dispensing.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS:
- 院外処方箋: an outpatient prescription slip
- 院外処方に切り替える: to switch to out-of-hospital dispensing
CONTRAST:
- 院内処方: in-hospital dispensing — medicine is given out at the facility itself