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Board seeks more comment, allows estimates for consultations in draft quality-assurance rules
Summary
The board approved modified text allowing an estimated number of patient consultations in quality assurance reports and sent the revised regulation to a 15-day comment period after discussion about data availability, central-fill tracking, and reporting burden.
The California State Board of Pharmacy voted to issue modified regulatory text for a 15-day public comment period to amend Title 16, section 1711, which sets quality assurance (QA) program requirements for pharmacies. The board specifically directed staff to change the rule language to permit reporting an estimated number of patient consultations rather than requiring an exact tally.
Members said the QA update stems from the board’s Medication Error Reduction and Workforce Committee and is intended to modernize QA regulations that “have largely remained unchanged for two decades.” During…
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