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There have been a number of tragedies due to the inaccurate preparations of medications. These events have placed pharmacy compounding in the limelight. Patients want answers. The question is how to prevent compounding tragedies from pharmacist-compounded medications?
"When done according to "best practices" and following the current rules, this practice meets patient needs that cannot be met in any other way, and therefore it is necessary." -Fred M. Eckel, RPh, MS, Should Pharmacists Be Able to Compound?
While the first thought would be to create a training program where one could become certified in compounding, this has many drawbacks. Questions begin to arise like who is capable of performing compounding, do they need to be certified, and more.
Should this be the Pharmacy Compounding Accreditation Board's problem? This too is a double-edged sword. The cost to allow the PCAB to solve this problem would drop small to medium-sized business due to limited capital.
The answer to this question is interlaced, but there are steps that you can take now. The best way to prevent compounding tragedies from pharmacist-compounded medications is to use proper conduct which means using the most accurate technology available like the DRX-3.
Our digital scales have many pill counting features, but specific to compounding they include a filling meter, remaining to fill, ingredient labeling, recipe archiving, recipe printing and onscreen instructions. The DRX-3 has a rich history in the pharmacy industry. It has been widely used by educational pharmacy programs and is known as the "teaching scale." Please, feel free to contact us about our scales which are NTEP certified and meet all pharmacy state board requirements.
Pill Counting and Prescription Drug Poisonings |
A recent article on NPR announced that “Poisonings of children by medication rose by one-third between 2001 and 2008” and declared that the youngest children were often poisoned when they picked up a pill off the floor and ate it. This illustrates the critical importance of making certain that pill counting takes place not only at the pharmacy, but also by all adults who handle those pills once they arrive home. Unfortunately, it is not just the opiate painkiller drugs that are a threat to children. Their young bodies also cannot tolerate those drugs that are critical to their parents’ and grandparents’ health. Nearly half the hospitalizations of younger children were from drugs used to treat diabetics, which are becoming increasingly common in our progressively obese society. The fact that the number of adults taking prescription medications has increased by 10 percent means that there are also more drugs in the home, and more adults who are new to using and handling these powerful compounds. |
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