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Given the growing push for pharmacists to focus more on clinical, patient-facing responsibilities, time-consuming operational tasks, such as conducting final verification of sterile compounds, can pose a challenge. Simultaneously, as hospitals nationwide face pharmacy technician shortages and low staffing levels, technician time is a limited, valuable resource. When Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist... Read more
The number of facilities with whole or partial ownership of a 503B outsourcing facility remains quite small. Most of the facilities taking advantage of this compounding model are large facilities with at least 400 beds. Looking ahead, larger hospitals are more likely to consider launching their own 503Bs; however, overall interest in this option dropped this year.
Given the complexity of CGMP... Read more
The relationship between hazardous drug (HD) exposure and the risk of adverse health effects is well established.1-4 Peer reviewed studies verify that HD surface sampling is an effective way to identify and act upon surface contamination proactively.1,5,6 USP <800> states that environmental wipe sampling for HD surface residue should be performed initially as a benchmark, and then conducted at... Read more
With just 31% of facilities able to purchase more than 90% of their medications in bar code, unit dose format, packaging systems remain key to pharmacy operations. Despite some reliance on outsourcers, the vast majority depends on in-house repackaging operations, utilizing manual methods as well as tabletop and high-volume packaging machines to deliver bar coded unit dose products to the units. Fortunately,... Read more
Underscoring the fact that diversion is an ongoing and widespread problem, it is estimated that one in every 100 healthcare workers divert medications.1 In 2022, ASHP published revisions to their Guidelines on Preventing Diversion of Controlled Substances describing a comprehensive controlled substances diversion prevention program that includes organizational oversight and accountability as a core... Read more
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