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- 2018
The Value of Drug Stability Studies and Their PublicationAbstract: The Canadian Journal of Hospital Pharmacy (CJHP) has a long history of publishing manuscripts that describe research into the stability of extemporaneously compounded medications. Canadian institutional pharmacists are fortunate that several of their colleagues have done extensive work in this field. The research laboratories of Ron Donnelly at The Ottawa Hospital, Dr Mary Ensom at the British Columbia Children’s Hospital, and Scott Walker at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre have provided, through their articles in CJHP, much useful information that allows practitioners to understand what storage conditions are acceptable for drug formulations beyond the commercially available products. For example, this issue contains an article about the stability of an extemporaneous formulation of domperidone,1 and the Journal’s Editorial Board continues to welcome such research for publication. But why
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