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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-1289</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.51847/WHAwvGP2Pm</article-id>
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          <subject>Original research</subject>
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        <article-title>Can Large Language Models Be Trusted with Pharmacy Work? A Systematic Review of Accuracy, Safety, and Clinical Use</article-title>
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                    <contrib-group>
                      <contrib contrib-type="author">
              <name>
                <surname>Fischer</surname>
                <given-names>Daniel</given-names>
              </name>
                              <xref rid="aff1" ref-type="aff">1</xref>
                                                            <xref rid="cor1" ref-type="corresp" />
                          </contrib>
                      <contrib contrib-type="author">
              <name>
                <surname>Meier</surname>
                <given-names>Laura</given-names>
              </name>
                              <xref rid="aff1" ref-type="aff">1</xref>
                                        </contrib>
                      <contrib contrib-type="author">
              <name>
                <surname>Koch</surname>
                <given-names>Stefan</given-names>
              </name>
                              <xref rid="aff2" ref-type="aff">2</xref>
                                        </contrib>
                      <contrib contrib-type="author">
              <name>
                <surname>Braun</surname>
                <given-names>Thomas</given-names>
              </name>
                              <xref rid="aff3" ref-type="aff">3</xref>
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                  <aff id="aff1">
            <label>1</label>Department of LLM Trust and Pharmacy Work, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.
          </aff>
                  <aff id="aff2">
            <label>2</label>Department of AI Accuracy and Clinical Safety, Faculty of Pharmacy, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany.
          </aff>
                  <aff id="aff3">
            <label>3</label>Department of LLM Evaluation in Pharmacy Practice, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany.
          </aff>
                          <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="daniel.fischer@pharmazie.uni-freiburg.de">daniel.fischer@pharmazie.uni-freiburg.de</email>
                          </corresp>
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                    <pub-date pub-type="epub">
        <day>16</day>
        <month>08</month>
        <year>2026</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>17</volume>
      <issue>3</issue>
      <fpage>10</fpage>
      <lpage>18</lpage>
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      <abstract>
        <title>A<sc>BSTRACT</sc></title>
        <p>Large language models (LLMs) can generate medication information, counselling content, interaction assessments, and pharmacotherapy suggestions, but answer quality alone does not establish safe or useful pharmacy practice. To determine how accurately and safely LLM-based systems perform pharmacy-relevant work, what clinical-use evidence exists, and which task-, model-, comparator-, and setting-specific boundaries constrain claims of trustworthiness. A protocol-driven systematic review was conducted in accordance with PRISMA 2020. PubMed/MEDLINE, publisher and Crossref-indexed records, and backward and forward citation searches were examined through 3 August 2026. Eligible studies were peer-reviewed Q1 journal articles evaluating an LLM or LLM-enabled system on a medication-work task. Two reviewers independently screened records, extracted study and model characteristics, harmonized outcomes, and appraised risk of bias, reproducibility, and applicability. Findings were synthesized narratively by pharmacy task and evaluation design because outcomes were unsuitable for meta-analysis. Forty-six records were identified, four duplicates were removed, 42 records were screened, 32 full-text reports were assessed, and 20 studies were included. Evidence was dominated by retrospective, cross-sectional, simulated-case, and output-rating designs. Performance varied with task complexity, model and version, prompting, grounding, reference standard, assessor, and scoring definition. Retrieval augmentation and customization improved selected output measures, but hallucination, omission, inconsistency, weak referencing, and unsafe or insufficiently qualified recommendations remained. Real-world questions or patient-derived data rarely represented prospective workflow implementation, and no included study established improved patient outcomes or safe autonomous pharmacy deployment. LLM trustworthiness in pharmacy is conditional rather than general. Current evidence supports bounded, task-specific evaluation under professional verification, not unsupervised clinical delegation. Prospective, externally validated, harm-sensitive studies are required.</p>
      </abstract>
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                <kwd>Systematic 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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