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A medication-dispensing card having a plurality of sealed compartments for holding single doses of medication. An inner pack, which provides a moisture and oxygen barrier to preserve the medication, comprises a blister sheet having a plurality of pockets for receiving the individual doses and a fran

A medication-dispensing card having a plurality of sealed compartments for holding single doses of medication. An inner pack, which provides a moisture and oxygen barrier to preserve the medication, comprises a blister sheet having a plurality of pockets for receiving the individual doses and a frangible lidding sheet laminated to the blister sheet for sealing the pockets. The inner pack is supported between front and back panels which are fastened to each other but not to the inner pack. The panels form a relatively rigid card which may be stored in the file drawer of a mobile medication cart. The structure allows unused medication in the inner pack to be recovered from the card without breaking the seal of an individual compartment permitting reuse. The blister sheet of the card is specially adapted so that the sheets may be stacked without adjacent sheets adhering to each other. Moreover, the pockets formed in the blister sheet have a unique shape chosen to receive a wide variety of pill sizes with minimal excess volume. Also, the lidding sheet is adapted to be fed through an automatic printer so that information may be imprinted on the individual compartments.

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A medication-dispensing card comprising an inner pack for storing single doses of medication prior to use and an outer cover for nonpermanently encasing the inner pack, wherein: (a) the inner pack comprises: a blister sheet having a plurality of pockets formed therein; single doses of medication ret

A medication-dispensing card comprising an inner pack for storing single doses of medication prior to use and an outer cover for nonpermanently encasing the inner pack, wherein: (a) the inner pack comprises: a blister sheet having a plurality of pockets formed therein; single doses of medication retained within at least some of the said pockets; a lidding sheet laminated to one side of said blister sheet so that the pockets are sealed to protect the medication; and means for separating one or more pockets from the remainder of the inner pack in a predetermined grid pattern so that unused doses can be recovered and recycled; and (b) the outer cover comprises: a front panel lying adjacent the blister sheet and having a plurality of apertures which receive the pockets therethrough; and a back panel having substantially the same peripheral dimension as the front panel, said back panel lying adjacent the lidding sheet and having a plurality of apertures arranged in a pattern corresponding to that of the pockets in the blister sheet, said front and back panels being free from means for detaching individual pockets and being characterized by a boss formed along the inner surface of at least one of the panels and disposed near the edge thereof, said front and back panels being attached solely by means of said boss.