Publications by authors named "S Stareprawo"
Automated Non-Sterile Pharmacy Compounding: A Multi-Site Study in European Hospital and Community Pharmacies with Pediatric Immediate Release Propranolol Hydrochloride Tablets.
Pharmaceutics
May 2024
Article Synopsis
- Pharmacy compounding is evolving with new technologies that address traditional challenges like dosage accuracy and contamination by utilizing automated processes, enhancing quality control.
- A multi-site study involving over 30 hospitals and pharmacies across eight European countries tested a novel automated approach to create customized non-sterile propranolol hydrochloride tablets, significantly improving dosing accuracy from 90% to 100%.
- The research indicates that incorporating automation and advanced quality control measures can transform pharmacy compounding, paving the way for more efficient and reliable personalized medicine production.
Background: Hospitals are advised to monitor antibiotic use. Several approximation methods do exist to perform this task. Adult cohorts can easily be monitored using the defined daily dose method, or its German adaption recommended daily doses (RDD) method, that seems inapplicable in pediatric cohorts due to body weight variations.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: In-house guidelines are an essential tool of antibiotic stewardship (ABS) programs to guide antimicrobial therapy. We studied the effect of in-house guidelines adapted to the local pathogen and resistance epidemiology on prescribing behavior.
Methods: At the University Hospital Halle (Saale) guidelines for the antimicrobial therapy and essential microbiological diagnostics were introduced.