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April 2025Recent Articles
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
Pharmacy Purchasing & Products: How does Rady Children’s Health utilize RFID technology?
Ann McKinstry, RPh: Our facility was an RFID pilot site for 2.5 years. Throughout that time, we worked to refine general standard operating procedures (SOPs) in order to best tailor these processes to our facility. Now, RFID is utilized to track medication usage and inventory data related to anesthesia... 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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