The United States Pharmacopeia (USP) has finally released its updated Chapter <797> revisions. These revisions were written over the past 22 months while USP considered appeals filed by stakeholders. 2019 version is mostly intact in revision, but there are some changes to beyond-use dates (BUD) for certain institutions. In addition, clarifies when identify microorganisms found during various sa...

The regulations set forth by the United States Pharmacopeia (USP) Chapter <797>, in effect since January 1 of 2004, have generated a great deal of interest because they have established the first practice standards of sterile pharmacy compounding in US history that are enforceable at both the federal and state levels. United States Pharmacopeia Chapter <797> expands the scope of facilities gove...

Objective: To examine the association between anxious school refusal and truancy and psychiatric disorders in a community sample of children and adolescents using a descriptive rather than etiological definition of school refusal. Method: Data from eight annual waves of structured psychiatric interviews with 9to 16-year-olds and their parents from the Great Smoky Mountains Study were analyzed. ...

Quantitative analysis of computer systems has become very important as they are being used to handle various mission critical and performance intensive applications. In this independent study I studied methods to model computer systems for analyzing them for reliability, availability, and performance metrics. The techniques that were covered include modeling using Discrete Time Markov Chains (D...

PURPOSE The initial response of the pharmacy profession to United States Pharmacopeia (USP) chapter 797 and the current state of hospital pharmacy practice as it relates to implementing this chapter were studied. METHODS A stratified random sample of 600 hospital pharmacy directors across the nation were surveyed by mail. RESULTS A total of 251 surveys (41.8%) were returned. Larger hospital...

Corresponding author: Si Ra Bang, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Haeundae Paik Hospital, Inje University College of Medicine, 875, Haeun-daero, Haeundae-gu, Busan 612-896, Korea. Tel: 82-51-797-0421, Fax: 82-51-797-0499, E-mail: sira1045@naver. com This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License ...