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Prevalence of compounding in independent community pharmacy practice
Timothy B McPherson1, Patrick E Fontane, Kelsey D Jackson
1St. Louis College of Pharmacy, St. Louis, Mo, USA. tmcpher@siue.edu
Objectives:
To determine the extent of prescription compounding in independent community pharmacies and identify factors that influence the decision of independent pharmacists whether to provide compounding services.
Design:
Cross-sectional survey.
Setting:
Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, and Iowa.
Participants:
370 pharmacists in charge.
Intervention:
Anonymous questionnaire mailed in January 2005.
Main Outcome Measures:
Percentage of pharmacies that provide compounding; percentage of dispensed prescriptions that require compounding; factors contributing to decisions whether to provide compounding service.
Results:
Overall, 94% of respondent pharmacies provided compounding services at the time of this survey. Prescriptions that required compounding represented less than 1% of total prescriptions for the majority (58.3%) of respondents. The main reasons for the decision to provide compounding service were wanting to provide full pharmaceutical care to patients (73.8% of compounders) and responding to requests by prescribers (48.7%). Pharmacies that did not provide compounding service cited the main reason as not receiving prescriptions that required compounding (63.6% of noncompounders).
Conclusion:
Compounding remains a component of pharmacy practice in the independent community setting. Prescriptions that required compounding represented 2.3% of all prescriptions dispensed by compounding pharmacies.
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