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      <journal-id journal-id-type="iso-abbrev">Arch Pharm Pract</journal-id>
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      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">Arch Pharm Pract</journal-id>
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        <journal-title>Archives of Pharmacy Practice</journal-title>
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      <issn pub-type="epub">2320-5210</issn>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">archivepp.com-1263</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.51847/KoMXgftABY</article-id>
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          <subject>Original research</subject>
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        <article-title>What Work Has Artificial Intelligence Actually Taken on in Pharmacy? A Scoping Review of Dispensing, Clinical Review, and Medicines Information</article-title>
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              <name>
                <surname>Wiśniewski</surname>
                <given-names>Krzysztof</given-names>
              </name>
                              <xref rid="aff1" ref-type="aff">1</xref>
                                                            <xref rid="cor1" ref-type="corresp" />
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                      <contrib contrib-type="author">
              <name>
                <surname>Nowak</surname>
                <given-names>Małgorzata</given-names>
              </name>
                              <xref rid="aff1" ref-type="aff">1</xref>
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                      <contrib contrib-type="author">
              <name>
                <surname>Adamczyk</surname>
                <given-names>Tomasz</given-names>
              </name>
                              <xref rid="aff2" ref-type="aff">2</xref>
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            <label>1</label>Department of Pharmacy AI Scoping and Review, Faculty of Pharmacy, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Warsaw, Poland.
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                  <aff id="aff2">
            <label>2</label>Department of Clinical Pharmacy and AI Task Analysis, Faculty of Pharmacy, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland.
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                          <author-notes>
            <corresp id="cor1">
              <bold>Address for correspondence:</bold> Prof. Wael Abu Dayyih, Department of
              Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Mutah University, Al-Karak 61710, Jordan.
                              E-mail: <email xlink:href="krzysztof.wisniewski@sggw.edu.pl">krzysztof.wisniewski@sggw.edu.pl</email>
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                    <pub-date pub-type="epub">
        <day>30</day>
        <month>12</month>
        <year>2025</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>16</volume>
      <issue>4</issue>
      <fpage>34</fpage>
      <lpage>42</lpage>
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      <abstract>
        <title>A<sc>BSTRACT</sc></title>
        <p>Claims about artificial intelligence in pharmacy frequently combine conceptual proposals, retrospective models, and operational systems, making it difficult to determine what work has actually been assigned to AI and where pharmacist judgment remains necessary. To map AI-supported tasks across dispensing, prescription and clinical review, medicines information, patient-facing services, and administrative pharmacy work while separating technical performance from workflow usefulness, safety, and autonomy. Peer-reviewed Q1 journal articles published from 2017 through 2025 were eligible when they evaluated an AI or hybrid AI component performing or supporting an identifiable pharmacy task and provided extractable evidence on setting, data, reference standard, human involvement, validation, comparator, or outcome. Searches covered MEDLINE/PubMed, Embase, Scopus, Web of Science, CINAHL, International Pharmaceutical Abstracts, IEEE Xplore, and supplementary citation and publisher searching. Evidence was charted by task, AI method, setting, data source, reference standard, pharmacist role, validation level, comparator, outcome, and autonomy, then synthesized using a review-derived task–maturity–oversight framework.

Searches identified 1,266 records. After removal of 472 duplicates, 794 records were screened; 153 reports were sought, 149 full texts were assessed, and 22 studies were included. Evidence concentrated on prescription prioritization, intervention prediction, anomaly detection, pill recognition, targeted patient services, and medicines-information answering. Pharmacists generally retained contextual review, authorization, communication, or final action. AI has primarily taken on bounded tasks that rank, flag, recognize, retrieve, or draft. The evidence does not establish autonomous completion of comprehensive pharmacy work or permit technical accuracy to be treated as proof of safety, benefit, or deployment readiness.</p>
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                <kwd>Scoping review</kwd>
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                <kwd>Artificial intelligence</kwd>
                <kwd>Pharmacy practice</kwd>
                <kwd>Medication safety</kwd>
                <kwd>Evidence synthesis</kwd>
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