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What is a Compounding Pharmacy?

BuzzRx

If your doctor’s office has given you a prescription with instructions to fill it at a compounding pharmacy, you might be wondering what exactly this means. There are 56,000 community pharmacies in the US. Only around 7,500 are compounding pharmacies, of which only 3,000 perform sterile compounding.

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Advocates for Safe IV Preparation Practices Share Their Inspiration Podcast

Omnicell

In fact, in a 2020 ISMP Sterile Compounding Pulse Check conducted with 634 pharmacy practitioners, only 25% of respondents report using technologies that include barcode verification, images, and gravimetric verification for 50% of compounded sterile products. Fortunately, this is where THRIV comes to play.