Community Pharmacy Policy and Procedures: Clinical Compounding Services
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2024-03
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Gulf Index Electronic Publisher
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Objectives: This paper is dedicated to emphasizing the profound importance of the, Clinical Compounding Services policy in Community pharmacy practice, a pioneering, initiative in Saudi Arabia. Methods: This narrative review of community pharmacy, policy and procedures for the clinical compounding services system was conducted, meticulously. We conducted a comprehensive search across reputable databases,, including PubMed, Medline, and Google Scholar, for specific Clinical Compounding and, Services policies and procedures in Community pharmacy practice. The search period, spans from the 1960s until October 2021, and the term is in English, encompassing, narrative review, systemic review, Meta-analysis, and guidelines. All hospital or, community Community pharmacy services are included in a search term. National and, international guidelines for general clinical compounding services in hospital practice, are also included. The Community Pharmacy Clinical Compounding and Services, Committee, comprised of various expert members, formulated the guidelines of the, policy draft, which were reviewed and corrected multiple times to ensure accuracy, and reliability. The topic emphasizes Community Pharmacy Clinical Compounding, and Services policy and procedures competency. Results: The competency of, the Community Pharmacy Clinical Compounding and Services policy consisted, of various items. That has included Clinical Compounding Services committee,, patient assessment, ISMP self-assessment of Clinical Compounding n Services for, ambulatory care and community pharmacy, the extemporaneous standards, stabilities, the extemporaneous preparations, and compounding safety. The pharmaceutical, calculations, medication errors reporting system, adverse drug reactions reporting, system, drug quality-reporting system at different pharmaceutical care departments, and units, and drug monitoring with all pediatrics or adults extemporaneous, preparations products with various diseases. Conclusion: The Community Pharmacy, Clinical Compounding and Services policy is a new initiative and a potential game-, changer in pharmacy practice. The policy, with its various standards and guidelines, for all extemporaneous preparations, has the potential to benefit patients, depending, on their condition-related diseases significantly. More than that, it is the initial step in, future innovation, paving the way to manufacturing new investigational pharmaceutical, products. Therefore, the competency of the Clinical Compounding Services policy, is highly recommended for implementation in a community setting in Saudi Arabia,, offering a promising future for pharmacy practice in the region.
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Clinical Compounding, Community, Competency, Pharmacy, Policy, Saudi Arabia, Services.
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Alomi Yousef Ahmed, Almasoudi Abeer Hussin, Alharbi Mohammad Ghazzai, Nasser Ruqayyah Mohammed AL, Alshammari Taghreed Ahmed, Alonzi Noura Saleem Nazal . Community Pharmacy Policy and Procedures: Clinical Compounding Services. International Journal of Pharmacology and Clinical Sciences . 2024 Mar; 13(1): 25-30