Performance Improvement in 503a Compounding Pharmacies: a Plan for Assessment, Implementation, and Sustained Success
Pritchett, J.; Mixon, W.; O'Connell, K.
International Journal of Pharmaceutical Compounding 20(1): 29-36
2016
ISSN/ISBN: 1092-4221 PMID: 27125054 Document Number: 690874
Performance improvement is the continual effort to objectively assess current performance and then restructure the practices that support it to more closely achieve desired performance. A plan for performance improvement, unlike other approaches to correcting problems in job fulfillment, is a systematic method used to first find the root causes of areas of concern and then apply corrections to remedy those deficits. Implementing a performance improvement plan that can be easily adapted to ensure compliance with evolving and increasingly complex state and federal regulations is crucial to a successful compounding practice. In this article, we discuss the need for performance improvement in 503A compounding pharmacies, list the steps necessary to develop such a plan, and present three case reports of performance improvement plans in differing compounding settings.