PMID: 18186428Jan 12, 2008Paper

Drug diversion in healthcare: risks and prevention

Healthcare Hazard Management Monitor : HHMM : the Newsletter of the Center for Healthcare Environmental Management

Abstract

According to a hospital pharmacy's procedures, one pharmacy employee is responsible for wasting expired or unused medications and for recording all waste transactions on a standardized form. Once a quarter, this employee accesses the area of the controlled substance vault where drugs intended for wasting are stored. The employee senses that the hospital does not regularly compare the waste transaction forms with the drugs stored in the vault, and periodically, the employee will take three boxes of expired fentanyl ampoules and will not record these boxes on the forms.

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