Research

Copies of recent Baxa research papers and journal articles may be downloaded here. To view them you will need a copy of Acrobat Reader.

Automated Compounding

Pharmacy Practice News: Assessment Tools and Guidelines: Parenteral Nutrition Therapy
Pharmacy Purchasing and Products: Making a Case for Automated Compounding Devices
Pharmacy Purchasing and Products: Choosing an Automated Compounding Device
Drug Topics: Baxa Debuts First Windows-based TPN Order Entry System
Once error-prone, TPNs now safer with new system. Drug TopicsJanuary 2006
Sensitivity/Specificity Evaluation of Fluorometry to Enhance Safety in the Compounding of High-Risk Parenteral Medications
Using ACDs in the Practice of Pharmacy, International Journal of Pharmaceutical Compounding, January-February 2005.


Hazardous Drug Handling

Economic Impact of the Preparation Scenario for Cytotoxic Drugs: An Observational Study
American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy? Surface Contamination Article
NIOSH Alert: Preventing Occupational Exposures to Antineoplastic and Other Hazardous Drugs in Healthcare Settings
NIOSH to Issue Chemo Alert
NIOSH Alert Worker/Employer Summary
Occupational Exposure to Antineoplastic Agents: Self-Reported Miscarriages and Stillbirths Among Nurses and Pharmacists, Journal of Occupational & Environmental Medicine, August 1999
OSHA Technical Manual, Chapter VI, Chapter 2: Controlling Occupational Exposure to Hazardous Drugs
September 2004 Online Journal of Issues in Nursing: Safe Handling of Hazardous Drugs


Medication Validation

Dennis Quaid, 44th ASHP Midyear Clinical Keynote Speaker: Preventing Serious Medication Errors
Prevention of wrong route errors in a pediatric hemato-oncology ward
Compounding in a Pediatric Hospital


Oral And Enteral Systems

ISMP Nurse Advise-ERR: Oral syringes: A crucial and economical risk-reduction strategy that has not been fully utilized
"Quick Compliance with Safety Alert on Oral/Enteral Syringes." Hospital Pharmacy Europe. July/August 2007.
NPSA Patient Briefing:  Promoting safer measurement and administration of oral liquid medications
NPSA Safety Alert:  Promoting safer measurement and administration of liquid medications via oral and other enteral routes
National Patient Safety Agency Oral & Enteral Syringe Use Poster
October 1993, Norwegian Directorate on Use of Oral Syringes
Guidelines on the handling of cytostatic drugs outside hospitals Norwegian Board of Healths safety series IK2520 1995
National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA) Interim advice, February 2005: How to confirm the correct position of nasogastric feeding tubes in infants, children and adults
National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA) Safety Alert: Reducing the harm caused by misplaced NG feeding tubes
Oral Medication Dispensers in Clinical Research," J of Clinical Research Best Practices, Vol. 2, No. 9, Sept. 2006


Pharmacy Tools

Current practices and state regulations regarding telepharmacy in rural hospitals
Pharmacy Practice News 19th Annual IV Devices Buyer's Guide 2005


Syringe Infusion

Minimizing Human Intervention in Intravenous Admixture Practice: Dennis Tribble, Chief Pharmacy Officer of Baxa Corporation, AJHP, March 2010.
Pharmaceutical Manufacturing and Packing Sourcer Get Connected: Mike Hurst at Baxa Corporation reviews the history of enteral feeding tube to IV line misconnections, and argues that the time is right for change
Drug Topics May 2007: New Campaign Targets Neonatal Safety
Preventing Infections: A Case Study on Continuous Infusion of b-Lactam Antibiotics


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