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Safe practices for sterile compounding are essential to preventing errors, particularly with parenteral nutrition (PN). This article reports several areas of errors in PN processes and provides recommendations for error prevention.

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electrolytes/acid-base outcomes research/quality parenteral formulas/compounding parenteral nutrition

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Safe Practices for Compounding of Parenteral Nutrition

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