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1U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Lexington VA Health Care System, Lexington, Kentucky. jessical.hawkins@va.gov.
Abstract:
This article looks at taking a proactive approach in discovering inconsistencies in pharmaceutical compounding at a facility level. Details on the requirements for master formulation and compounding records in nonsterile and sterile compounding as laid out in the 2022 publications of United States Pharmacopeia Chapter <795> Pharmaceutical Compounding- Nonsterile Preparations and United States Pharmacopeia Chapter <797> Pharmaceutical Compounding-Sterile Preparations are reviewed. Following this summary, information is then presented on how to utilize the record-keeping requirements to a facility's advantage through regular auditing and reporting and how to incorporate these audits or reports into a facility's quality-assurance program to fulfill error detection and prevention requirements.
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