Duke University Hospital Infection Outbreak Traced to In-House Compounding Facility

A JAMA Internal Medicine study finds the outbreak of Burkholderia cepacia complex at Duke University Hospital in Durham, N.C., was caused by contamination in the hospital’s institutional compounding facility.

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