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O.C.G.A. § 26-4-214 — Role of State Board of Pharmacy and Georgia Composite Medical Board in establishing rules and regulations | Georgia Code
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TITLE 26 FOOD, DRUGS, AND COSMETICS

Section 4. Pharmacists and Pharmacies, 26-4-1 through 26-4-214.

ARTICLE 13 SAFE MEDICATIONS PRACTICE ACT

26-4-214. Role of State Board of Pharmacy and Georgia Composite Medical Board in establishing rules and regulations.

  1. The State Board of Pharmacy shall establish rules and regulations governing a hospital pharmacist acting pursuant to Code Section 26-4-213 in the provision of drug therapy management in institutions in consultation or collaboration with physicians. Such rules may include the utilization of a hospital pharmacist's skills regarding dangerous drugs to promote medication safety. Such rules shall include the ordering of clinical laboratory tests in the institutional setting and the interpretation of results related to medication use when approved by a physician member of the institution's medical staff for the care and treatment of the ordering physician's patients or pursuant to a protocol established in accordance with medical staff policy.
  2. The Georgia Composite Medical Board shall establish rules and regulations governing a physician acting pursuant to this article.

(Code 1981, §26-4-214, enacted by Ga. L. 2010, p. 195, § 1/HB 361.)

Cross references.

- Georgia Composite Medical Board, § 43-34-1 et seq.

Code Commission notes.

- Pursuant to Code Section 28-9-5, in 2010, "institution's" was substituted for "institutions's" in the last sentence of subsection (a).

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