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Archive >  Medication Management and Safety 2011

Is Custom Compounding Right For You?

Find out why using a lab to formulate drugs tailored to your needs is the efficient and economical choice for a growing number of facilities.

Dan O'Connor, Editor-in-Chief

Before the Hunterdon Center for Surgery began using a compounding lab to formulate the drops for its cataract patients, the Flemington, N.J., facility was spending $21 on eye drops per patient. And that figure was just the tip of the iceberg. It neither accounted for all the leftover single-dose or single-use medications that went to waste nor for all the time that it took a nurse to instill 3 sets of 5 drops and wait 15 minutes between each set.

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