Monday, January 7, 2013

Arizona Board of Pharmacy Prescription Compounding Task Force Comments on NECC

Prescription Compounding Task Force
The recent tragedy caused by contaminated compounded
prescription drugs distributed across the country by a pharmacy
in Massachusetts has probably been the “biggest story” in
pharmacy in the last decade. Unfortunately, it is not the kind
of news that pharmacy as a profession is proud of. Any time
a patient suffers a negative outcome is a “failure” both for the
professional involved and for the profession as a whole. In
this extreme case, there were at least 656 cases where patients
were infected by various organisms in the products and 39
deaths in 19 states.

Continue reading in the Arizona Board of Pharmacy January 2013 Newsletter here

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