Description of outbreaks of health-care-associated infections related to compounding pharmacies, 2000–12

  Catherine Staes⇑,     Jason Jacobs,     Jeanmarie Mayer and     Jill Allen  + Author Affiliations      Catherine Staes, B.S.N., M.P.H., Ph.D., is Assistant Professor; and Jason Jacobs is a doctoral student, Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City. Jeanmarie Mayer, M.D., is Hospital Epidemiologist, Department of Medicine, University of Utah Health Care Hospital and Clinics, Salt Lake City. Jill Allen, Pharm.D., BCPS, is Drug Information Consultant, Pin Oak Associates, Salt Lake City.      Address correspondence to Dr. Staes at the Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Utah, 26 South 2000 East, HSEB 5517, Salt Lake City, UT 84112 (catherine.staes@hsc.utah.edu).  Abstract  Purpose Outbreaks of health-care-associated infections related to compounding pharmacies from 2000 through 2012 are described.
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