Choosing a Compounding Pharmacy
Great Care, Delivered.™
Your patients trust you with their health and with their lives. And when you determine a course of therapy for them, you need a compounding pharmacy you can trust.
At Wedgewood Pharmacy, we're meticulous about every prescription we dispense. Our stringent quality-control programs mean that every prescription meets the specifications and high standards of the pharmacy industry and you.
Wedgewood Pharmacy is recognized by the Pharmacy Compounding Accreditation Board (PCAB®) as meeting nationally accepted quality assurance, quality control, and quality improvement standards.
When so much is at stake, it's important to choose a compounding pharmacy you can trust with your reputation and your patients' health. When you select a compounding pharmacy, be sure to ask questions like these.
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| Are you PCAB® accredited? |
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| Are you committed to compliance with the USP <797> guidelines for sterile compounding? |
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| Do you have an independent, 3rd party lab perform sterility analysis on every batch of sterile compounds? |
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| Do you have an independent, 3rd party lab perform endotoxin analysis on every batch of sterile compounded injections? |
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| To achieve sterility, do you filter (0.2 micron) in an ISO Class 5 laminar air-flow hood contained in an ISO Class 7 clean room? |
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| When filtration is not appropriate, do you terminally sterilize via autoclave or gamma-irradiation to achieve sterility? |
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| Do you perform post-filtration filter integrity testing? |
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| Do you conduct monthly lab-tests of air and surface samples in your clean room and other controlled environments? |
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| Is the air quality in your sterile compounding lab engineered for HEPA filtration to minimize particulates? |
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| Do you obtain independent, routine certifications of your clean rooms and laminar airflow hoods? |
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| Do you have a sterile environmental monitoring program in place to help ensure aseptic conditions? |
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| Do you purchase pharmaceutical-grade chemicals (USP, NF equivalent) from FDA-registered suppliers? |
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| Do you obtain Certificates of Analyses for all compounding ingredients? |
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| Do you maintain both master formulas and lot-specific batch records for all compounds? |
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| Can you immediately trace a prescription back to the original batch record and the source of the ingredients? |
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| Do you verify the potency of finished compounds through weight, volume and yield checks? |
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| Do you perform pH testing on injections, ophthalmic preparations and other compounds? |
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| Is your staff properly trained and evaluated in aseptic manipulation skills, gowning technique and clean-room use? |
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| Do you have systems in place for handling complaints, sterility failures, adverse events and, if necessary, issuing a recall? |
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| Is every step of the compounding process from prescribing to compounding and labeling through dispensing reviewed and verified by a licensed pharmacist? |
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| Are laboratory technicians assessed semi-annually for competency, including independent-laboratory potency-testing of dosage forms they are certified to prepare? |
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