Transcription of Guidelines for Compounding Practices - pharmacist.com
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Compounding is an integral part of pharmacy practice andis essential to the provision of health defined in several ways; one definition in Chapter 795 ofthe United States Pharmacopeia(USP795) is as follows:The preparation, mixing, assembling, altering, pack-aging, and labeling of a drug, drug-delivery device,or device in accordance with a licensed practi-tioner s prescription, medication order, or initiativebased on the practitioner patient pharmacist com-pounder relationship in the course of professionalpractice. Compounding includes the following: Preparation of drug dosage forms for bothhuman and animal patients, Preparation of drugs or devices in anticipationof prescription drug orders, on the basis of rou-tine, regularly observed prescribing patterns, Reconstitution or manipulation of commercialproducts that may require the addition of one ormore ingredients, Preparation of drugs or devices for the purposesof, or as an incident to, research (clinical or academic), teaching, or chemical analysis, and Preparation of drugs and devices for pre-scriber s office use where permitted by federaland state can be as simple as the addition of a liquid to a manufactured drug pow-der or as complex as the preparation of a multicomponent parenteral nutrition solution.
2 The Art, Science, and Technology of Pharmaceutical Compounding bar above more fully defines compounding and manufacturing and provides guidelines for differentiating the two activities. The pharmacist is responsible for compounding preparations of acceptable strength,
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