Definitions

For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions apply: 1. Pharmacy providing home health care pharmacy services. A pharmacy providing home health care pharmacy services is a licensed pharmacy that routinely prepares and dispenses compounded, sterile parenteral products to outpatients. 2. Outpatient. An outpatient is defined as a patient in the home environment or an institutionalized patient that is receiving compounded sterile parenteral products from a pharmacy outside the institution. 3. Compounded, sterile parenteral products. Compounded, sterile parenteral products are defined as those parenteral drug products that require manipulation by the pharmacist and which must be sterile, stable, and effective when dispensed for patient use.