title: Extemporaneously compounded sterile medications: relevance of new United States pharmacopeial standards to pain clinicians.
abstract: The United States Pharmacopeia (USP) is the United States' congressionally authorized book of standards for pharmaceutical manufacturing in the United States. The most current edition of the USP includes a new chapter entitled Pharmaceutical Compounding-Sterile Preparations that sets standards for all health care professionals who prepare, store or dispense sterile preparations. Extemporaneously compounded sterile formulations are sometimes needed for symptom control in pain and palliative practice. The implications and relevance of this new USP chapter to pain and palliative care clinicians-and the importance of all clinicians understanding the implications of how their patient's compounded sterile products are prepared-are discussed.
authors.affiliation: University of Utah College of Pharmacy, USA. william.rusho@hsc.utah.edu
authors.forename: William J
authors.initials: WJ
authors.lastname: Rusho
mesh_terms: D004339:Drug Compounding; D004340:Drug Contamination / Q000517:prevention & control*; D004355:Drug Stability; D004356:Drug Storage; D006801:Humans; D010146:Pain; D004364:Pharmaceutical Preparations / Q000592:standards*; D010602:Pharmacopoeias as Topic; D012015:Reference Standards; D014481:United States
chemical_list: D004364:Pharmaceutical Preparations