In 2024 on-site surveys, The Joint Commission will look to make sure hospital and critical access pharmacies have policies and procedures to meet the 2022 updates to USP General Chapter <797> for sterile compounding, which became effective Nov. 1, 2023.
Robert Campbell, PharmD, BCSCP, the senior director of the Standards Interpretation, Accreditation Decision Management and Medication Safety Division of Accreditation and Certification Operations for The