Make Pharmacy Math Fun, Easy, and ACCURATE

January 2021

About 1 in 5 people have anxiety about doing math...and in the pharmacy this can lead to med errors, billing or audit issues, etc.

Use these tips to confidently approach pharmacy math problems...and reduce the risk of a calculation going wrong.

Start by carefully reading the Rx...to determine what info you HAVE and what info you NEED to solve the calculation.

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Table of Contents

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