Hospital pharmacies are being forced to increase drug compounding efforts to meet demands after the closure of the New England Compounding Center and related compounding pharmacies linked to a fungal meningitis outbreak, according to WBUR Boston. Patients at Massachusetts General Hospital take about 4.8 million doses of prescription medication each year, and more than 20 percent of those medications were compounded by facilities like NECC. Now the hospital has begun doing much of its own compounding.
Hospitals continue to seek ways to cover the supply gap left by questionable compounding pharmacies, as well as the additional cost to in-house compounding.
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Hospitals continue to seek ways to cover the supply gap left by questionable compounding pharmacies, as well as the additional cost to in-house compounding.
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