title: Safe practices for compounding of parenteral nutrition.
abstract: Safe practices for sterile compounding are essential to preventing errors, particularly with parenteral nutrition (PN). This article reports several areas of errors in PN processes and provides recommendations for error prevention.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Safe Medication Practices, Horsham, Pennsylvania, USA. mcohen@ismp.org
authors.forename: Michael R
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Cohen
mesh_terms: D004339:Drug Compounding / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D008508:Medication Errors / Q000517:prevention & control*; D010288:Parenteral Nutrition / Q000592:standards*; D061214:Patient Safety / Q000592:standards*; D004364:Pharmaceutical Preparations / Q000592:standards*
chemical_list: D004364:Pharmaceutical Preparations