Description

Identification of what was incorrect about the prescribed and dispensed (or potentially dispensed) medication involved in event.

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Brand or generic substitution

When a A brand substitution is when brand of a medication other than the brand prescribed was dispensed.

A generic substitution is when a brand name medication is prescribed as a brand or generic but that is not what and a generic medication is dispensed, or when a generic medication is prescribed and a different generic is dispensed.

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