Pharmaceutical compounding of orphan active ingredients in Belgium: how community and hospital pharmacists can address the needs of patients with rare diseases [PDF]
Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases, 2019 Background Pharmaceutical compounding of orphan active ingredients can offer cost-effective treatment to patients when no other drug product is available for a rare disease or during periods of drug product shortages.
V. Vanhoorne +7 more
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A prospective, single-centre study of the feasibility of the use of augmented reality for improving the safety and traceability of injectable investigational cancer drug compounding [PDF]
HeliyonThe compounding of injectable cancer drugs for clinical trials often requires specific procedures, with limited access to the starting materials and especially the active compound.
Arthur Lecoutre +5 more
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JMIR Human FactorsBackgroundThe existing intravenous systemic anticancer therapy (SACT) pathway in pharmacies is operationally inefficient. Manual, paper-based workflows render the system prone to human error, and the need for time-consuming manual
Bethany Umpleby +3 more
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Adverse drug events from paediatric use of extemporaneously compounded medicines in community pharmacy settings: a scoping review [PDF]
BMJ Paediatrics OpenBackground Extemporaneously compounded medicines are widely used in paediatric patients. However, the associated extent and nature of adverse drug events from these products remained unclear.Aims To summarise the characteristics of adverse drug events ...
Rose Cairns +3 more
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Omeprazole – a new raw material for drug compounding [PDF]
Farmacja Polska, 2023 One of the more common performed magistral drugs are formulations containing omeprazol. Lack of omeprazole registered as compunding raw material forced use of industrially manufactured medicines in the pellets form.
Katarzyna Sosnowska, Katarzyna Winnicka
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Evaluation of Robotic Systems on Cytotoxic Drug Preparation: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Medicina, 2023 Background and Objectives: With the increased prevalence of patients with cancer, the demand for preparing cytotoxic drugs was increased by health-system pharmacists.
Sangyoon Shin +5 more
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The Role of Pharmaceutical Compounding in Promoting Medication Adherence
Pharmaceuticals, 2022 Pharmaceutical compounding is an important component of pharmacy practice despite its low prevalence. Several therapeutic needs can be met by a compounded medicine such as dosing adjusted for pediatric patients, special drug combinations, medicines for ...
Maria Carvalho, Isabel F. Almeida
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Hydrogels - compounded dermatological preparations [PDF]
Farmacja Polska, 2020 Hydrogels are a physicochemical system in which an aqueous phase is gelled with a certain gelling polymer. They can make a good alternative to conventional lipophilic or absorption ointment bases, especially if the medicine should be administered to ...
Bianka Jacyna +2 more
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Monitoring contamination of hazardous drug compounding surfaces at hospital pharmacy departments. A consensus Statement. Practice guidelines of the Spanish Society of Hospital Pharmacists (SEFH) [PDF]
Farmacia Hospitalaria, 2021 Objective: To establish a series of recommendations based on available evidence for monitoring surface contamination in the areas devoted to compounding hazardous drugs in pharmacy departments.Method: Based on a literature search in the Medline and ...
Silvia Valero-García +7 more
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Pharmaceutics, 2021 Pharmaceutical compounding enables the preparation of unlicensed medicine to meet specific patient needs that do not have a licensed medicine available on the market.
István Sebe +2 more
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