With the recent announcement from the U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention that it will push the go-live date of USP Chapter <800> to 2019, health care institutions have gained more time to plan for implementation of the chapter’s requirements.
However, experts in workplace contamination say health systems should not delay complying with one of those new requirements: the use of closed-system drug-transfer devices (CSTDs) to protect health care workers (HCWs) from hazardous exposures.