Compounding

Please see Compatability and Stability of Parenterals for additional information

   General Compounding

Websites:

• ASHP Compounding Resource Center
• CompoundingToday.com - $
• Consumer Health Alliance for Safe Medication (CHASM)
• International Academy of Compounding Pharmacists
• Medisca Website
• Paddock Laboratories, Inc.
• Pharmacy Compounding (CDER - Center for Drug Evaluation and Research)
• Pharmacy Compounding Accreditation Board
• Pharmacy Times Compounding Hotline
• Professional Compounding Centers of America
• Spectrum Pharmacy Products

Journals/Newsletters:

• Compounding Today Newsletter
• International Journal of Pharmaceutical Compounding - $

Recommended texts are linked to publishers' or book sellers' websites for further ordering information:

• A Practical Guide To Contemporary Pharmacy Practice (Thompson, 3rd ed. 2009) - $
• Dispensing of Medication (King) - $
• Ansel's Pharmaceutical Dosage Forms and Drug Delivery Systems - $
• Pharmaceutical Practice (Winfield, 4th ed. 2009) - $
• Remington: The Science and Practice of Pharmacy - $
• The Art, Science, and Technology of Pharmaceutical Compounding (Allen, 3rd ed. 2008) - $
• The Pharmaceutical Codex: Principles and Practice of Pharmaceutics - $
• USP Pharmacists' Pharmacopeia - $
• Pharmaceutical Compounding and Dispensing - $
• US Pharmacopeia-National Formulary (USP-NF) - $

   Formulas for Compounding

Stability Information

Websites:

• IWK Health Centre: emergency preparation of oseltamivir oral suspension from capsules 
• Guidance to Pharmacies on Advance Compounding of Tamiflu Oral Suspension to Provide for Multiple Prescriptions
• Directions for the Emergency Compounding of an Oral Suspension from TAMIFLU Capsules (Final Concentration = 15 mg/mL)
• Dalhousie's compounding formulas from recent journal literature
• The Hospital for Sick Children – Compounding Service -  Compounding Recipes Index 
• The OLCHC Pharmacy Department - Extemporaneous Compounding Worksheets
• Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) with the University of Ottawa - Formulations for Compounds
• Compounding Today: Formulations Search - $
• Paddock Laboratories: Secundum Artem

Journals/Newsletters:

• Contemporary Compounding. Regular column in US Pharmacist - $
• PT Compounding Hotline. Regular column in Pharmacy Times - $
• Formulations. Regular column in International Journal of Pharmaceutical Compounding - $

Recommended texts are linked to publishers' or book sellers' websites for further ordering information:

• The Ghen and Rains Physicians Guide to Pharmaceutical Compounding - $
• Extemporaneous Formulations (Children's Hospital of Philadelphia) - $
• Pediatric Drug Formulations - $
• Pocket Book of Extemporaneous Formulations - $
• Allen's Compounded Formulations: The Complete US Pharmacist Collection - $
• British Pharmacopoeia (2009) - $
• Martindale: The Complete Drug Reference (36th ed. - 2009: CD-ROM and online subscription service) - $
• The Art, Science, and Technology of Pharmaceutical Compounding (Allen, 3rd ed. 2008)- $
• Trissel's Stability of Compounded Formulations (4th ed. - 2008) - $
• Pharmaceutical Compounding and Dispensing - $

   Characteristics of Specific Drugs

Recommended texts are linked to publishers' or book sellers' websites for further ordering information:

• The Merck Index - $
• British Pharmacopoeia (2009) - $
• Martindale: The Complete Drug Reference (36th ed. - 2009: CD-ROM and online subscription service) - $ 
• Remington: The Science and Practice of Pharmacy - $ 
• Handbook of Pharmaceutical Excipients (6th ed. - 2009) - $
• The Pharmaceutical Codex: Principles and Practice of Pharmaceutics - $
• Trissel's Stability of Compounded Formulations - $
• US Pharmacopeia-National Formulary (USP-NF) - $

   Sterile Compounding

Websites:

• ASHP Guidelines on Pharmacy-Prepared Ophthalmic Products 
• Sterile Compounding: A Guide for Community Pharmacists (Ontario College of Pharmacists)

Recommended texts are linked to publishers' or book sellers' websites for further ordering information:

• Extemporaneous Ophthalmic Preparations - $
• Guidelines for Preparation of Sterile Products in Pharmacies (CSHP) - $
• Handbook on Injectable Drugs (Trissel, 15th ed.) - $
• Compounding Sterile Preparations (ASHP, 3rd ed. - 2009) - $
• Sterile Dosage Forms: Their Preparation and Clinical Application (Turco) - $
• USP <797> Guidebook to Proposed Revisions - Sterile Preparations - $ 

Video:

• Compounding Sterile Preparations Video Training Program (ASHP) - $
• Sterile Product Preparation Video & Manual (by CSHP and CPhA) - $

   Calculations for Compounding

Recommended texts are linked to publishers' or book sellers' websites for further ordering information:

• APhA's Complete Math Review for the Pharmacy Technician - $
• Pharmaceutical and Clinical Calculations 2nd ed. (Khan et al) - $
• Pharmaceutical Calculations (Zatz) - $
• Pharmaceutical Calculations: (13th Ed. Ansel) - $
• Pharmaceutical Calculations: The Pharmacist's Handbook (Ansel) - $
• Understanding Pharmacy Calculations (O'Sullivan) - $
• Introduction to Pharmaceutical Calculations - $
• Pharmaceutical Calculations Workbook - $

$ - Resource is not freely available on the Internet