USP BUD vs Expiration Date

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Wed, 01/17/2024 - 10:04

Gregory Mak

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USP BUD vs Expiration Date

Hello!

We have received reports of confusion from our nursing staff regarding BUD vs expiration date.

Our hospital gives a standard 24h BUD for most compounds from pharmacy as that generally falls within the USP limits. Nurses are interpreting this as an expiration date and are not comfortable infusing medications that would run past that BUD.

This also leads to confusion regarding medications where the stability dictates an expiration time that is shorter than our standard BUD. Nursing would like a one-size fits all solution but I don't know if one exists.

How have institutions educated on the differences between BUD, or perhaps leveraged the EMR to better communicate differences between BUD and expiration?

Another limiting factor is the label stampers that we use in the pharmacy print the date as "EXP" which definitely is not helping with the confusion. Have organizations found a different product that could stamp it as "BUD"?

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