title: Implementing United States Pharmacopeia Chapter <1163> quality assurance in pharmaceutical compounding, Part 5: Outsourcing and responsible personnel.
abstract: This final installment of a five-part series relating to United States Pharmacopeia Chapter <1163> provides the pros and cons of outsourcing, an extremely important topic because of the many drug shortages and discontinued drugs being experienced, and provides a brief discussion of the importance of having a responsible employee in charge of the quality-assurance program.
authors.affiliation: International Journal of Pharmaceutical Compounding, Inc., Edmond, Oklahoma 73034, USA. lallen@ijpc.com
authors.forename: Loyd V
authors.initials: LV
authors.lastname: Allen
mesh_terms: D004339:Drug Compounding / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D010602:Pharmacopoeias as Topic; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care; D014481:United States