Dear Friends
ISMP has been busy making plans for 2009 to further our mission to serve the healthcare community as a vital resource for medication safety. If you glance to the right at our Key Plans for 2009, you will see that our work will be expanding to reach consumers while maintaining our ever-important focus on you, the providers of healthcare services. Our plans are ambitious, but our dedicated staff is committed to strengthening our ability to help you prevent medication errors.
You Can Make a Difference
We are starting our inaugural fundraising campaign with the individuals who know us best: the people we serve. You are truly the cornerstone of ISMP, serving as the predominant conduit for time-critical medication safety information that now reaches millions of healthcare professionals. You have been on an extraordinary journey with us—many since our first publication in 1996—serving witness to needless tragic errors as well as partnering with us to achieve transformational changes to improve medication safety.
We invite you to make a tax-deductible donation to ISMP to help us  achieve our goals in 2009. Your gift, small or large, will further our lifesaving work and enhance our capacity to help you protect your patients from medication errors. We thank you for making an investment in our future. Together we are Actively caring for safety: One team, one goal, the power of many.
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Through your support ISMP...
Key Accomplishments in 2008
- Granted federal certification as a Patient Safety Organization (PSO)
- Established QuarterWatch™, an adverse drug event monitoring system
- Strengthened the ISMP Medication Safety Fellowship program
- Conducted AHRQ-funded research on high-alert medications in community pharmacies
- Developed a risk assessment model for community pharmacies
- Built a consumer website, consumermedsafety.org
- Established Automated Dispensing Cabinet Guidelines
- Held a vendor-user summit on smart pumps to identify best practices
- Established Label Format Guidelines
- Built a Toolkit for Anticoagulation Safety
- Standardized a list of Look-alike Drug Name Sets with Recommended Tall Man Letters
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Key Plans for 2009
- Launch consumermedsafety.org
- Establish a consumer medication error-reporting program
- Begin a mentorship program for healthcare professionals at ISMP headquarters
- Enhance our position as the nation’s early warning system for medication safety
- Increase the reach of medication error-reporting programs
- Launch a distance learning certificate program for medication safety
- Begin a 3-year research project in community pharmacies on patient counseling for high-alert medications and bar-coding technology
- Develop a human factors simulation lab to test error-reduction strategies
- Strengthen our ability to function as a Patient Safety Organization (PSO)
- Conduct a vendor-user summit on bar-coding to identify best practices
- Expand international collaboratives to promote medication safety worldwide
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