PostScription-Ensuring Compounding Excellence: Quality Control or Quality Assurance?

Author(s):  Kupiec Thomas C

Issue:  Mar/Apr 2002 - Dermatologic Compounding
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Abstract:  The author, affiliated with Analytical Research Laboratories in Oklahoma City, OK, differentiates between quality control and quality assurance and suggests that a combined approach is a powerful marketing tool for compounding pharmacists. He concludes that both quality control and quality assurance are necessary to build the success of a compounding pharmacy and to ensure that the highest-quality products are made available to patients.

Related Categories: SUPPORT, QUALITY CONTROL

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