OBJECTIVES: To determine the extent of prescription compounding in independent community pharmacies and identify factors that influence the decision of independent pharmacists whether to provide compounding services. DESIGN: Cross-sectional survey. SETTING: Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, and Iowa. PARTICIPANTS: 370 pharmacists in charge. INTERVENTION: Anonymous questionnaire mailed in January 2005. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Percentage of pharmacies that provide compounding; percentage of dispensed prescriptions that require compounding; factors contributing to decisions whether to provide compounding service. RESULTS: Overall, 94% of respondent pharmacies provided compounding services at the time of this survey. Prescriptions that required compounding represented less than 1% of total prescriptions for the majority (58.3%) of respondents. The main reasons for the decision to provide compounding service were wanting to provide full pharmaceutical care to patients (73.8% of compounders) and responding to requests by prescribers (48.7%). Pharmacies that did not provide compounding service cited the main reason as not receiving prescriptions that required compounding (63.6% of noncompounders). CONCLUSION: Compounding remains a component of pharmacy practice in the independent community setting. Prescriptions that required compounding represented 2.3% of all prescriptions dispensed by compounding pharmacies.
OBJECTIVES: To determine the extent of prescription compounding in independent community pharmacies and identify factors that influence the decision of independent pharmacists whether to provide compounding services. DESIGN: Cross-sectional survey. SETTING: Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, and Iowa. PARTICIPANTS: 370 pharmacists in charge. INTERVENTION: Anonymous questionnaire mailed in January 2005. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Percentage of pharmacies that provide compounding; percentage of dispensed prescriptions that require compounding; factors contributing to decisions whether to provide compounding service. RESULTS: Overall, 94% of respondent pharmacies provided compounding services at the time of this survey. Prescriptions that required compounding represented less than 1% of total prescriptions for the majority (58.3%) of respondents. The main reasons for the decision to provide compounding service were wanting to provide full pharmaceutical care to patients (73.8% of compounders) and responding to requests by prescribers (48.7%). Pharmacies that did not provide compounding service cited the main reason as not receiving prescriptions that required compounding (63.6% of noncompounders). CONCLUSION: Compounding remains a component of pharmacy practice in the independent community setting. Prescriptions that required compounding represented 2.3% of all prescriptions dispensed by compounding pharmacies.
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Authors: R Palmeira-de-Oliveira; C Luís; C Gaspar; E Bogas; M Morgado; M Guardado; M Castelo Branco; M O Fonseca; A Palmeira-de-Oliveira Journal: Eur J Hosp Pharm Date: 2016-01-19
Authors: Hatim S AlKhatib; Sara Jalouqa; Nour Maraqa; Anna Ratka; Eman Elayeh; Suha Al Muhaissen Journal: BMC Health Serv Res Date: 2019-11-08 Impact factor: 2.655