ASHP Guidelines on Evaluating and Using Home or Alternate-Site Infusion Service Providers.

These guidelines describe the roles of home or alternatesite infusion service providers and pharmacies (hereinafter “home infusion service providers” and “home infusion pharmacies”) and provide guidance on how to successfully work with a home infusion service provider in continuing care that has been initiated in a health system or other facility. For the purposes of these guidelines, a home infusion service provider is defined as an organization that continues or completes a patient’s parenteral medication in the home or alternate site after the patient is released from a hospital or other facility. A home infusion service provider may offer nursing or other services in addition to pharmacist care. A home infusion pharmacy is defined as a licensed pharmacy that prepares and dispenses parenteral sterile medications directly to a patient, pursuant to a valid individual prescription and in individualized doses.