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SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Creating a Safe Workplace Despite Hazardous Drug Risk

USP Chapter <800> driving current efforts

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Baltimore—“Does your institution have a medical surveillance program for health care workers handling hazardous drugs?”

That was the question that Ellen Kessler, MD, MPH, the medical director of occupational health services at Inova Occupational Health, in Falls Church, Va., asked attendees at a session on managing hazardous drugs at the 2016 ASHP Summer Meetings. The majority of respondents (24) to the on-the-spot electronic survey said their institution did not have such a