Plain English Breakdown
The source material does not specify what the 'specified requirements' are for the AUDS exemption, only that they exist.
Emergency Room Patient Prescriptions
This law allows doctors to give leftover non-controlled medicine to emergency room patients when they leave the hospital and changes rules for licensing certain drug machines.
What This Bill Does
- Allows a prescriber to give an unused portion of a dangerous drug acquired by the hospital pharmacy to an emergency room patient upon discharge if specific conditions are met.
- Requires that any leftover drug given at discharge is not a controlled substance.
- States that giving the leftover drug must be necessary for the patient to continue their treatment.
- Exempts automated unit dose systems from licensure when they dispense dangerous drugs to emergency room patients under specified requirements.
Who It Names or Affects
- Prescribers in hospitals
- Emergency room patients leaving a hospital
- Hospital pharmacies that own or lease drug delivery systems
Terms To Know
- Dangerous drug
- A medicine regulated by the state, which can include controlled substances.
- Controlled substance
- A type of dangerous drug that is strictly limited and cannot be given as a leftover portion under this new rule.
- Automated unit dose system (AUDS)
- A machine used to store, organize, and dispense individual doses of medicine in a hospital setting.
Limits and Unknowns
- The law does not allow prescribers to give leftover controlled substances to patients upon discharge.
- The specific requirements for using the automated unit dose system are listed elsewhere in the full bill text and are not detailed here.
- The official effective date is not provided in the source material.