Dear Friends
As we near a close to 2011, ISMP has been busy making plans for 2012 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 2012, you will see that our work will continue expanding to reach consumers and the international community while maintaining our ever-important focus on you, our providers of healthcare services. Our plans are ambitious, but our dedicated staff are committed to strengthening our ability to help you prevent medication errors.
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Key Accomplishments in 2011
- Identified best practices with the timing of medication administration, which led to changes in the CMS “30-minute rule” for timely drug administration
- Completed the 2011 ISMP Medication Safety Self Assessment for Hospitals study—more than 1,300 hospitals participated
- Released the results of pivotal surveys showing the impact of drug shortages and gray market activity on patient safety, which helped inform an FDA summit on the issue; federal investigation of price gouging; ISMP participation in meetings with the Secretary of Health and Human Services, FDA Commissioner, and House and Senate committees; and an executive order from President Obama to respond to the drug shortage crisis
- Conducted an IV Safety Summit focused on pharmacy compounding of sterile products
- Conducted a collaborative with hospitals on the Safe Use of HYDROmorphone
- Collaborated with Vermont Oxford Network and NICUs to develop Standard Concentrations of Neonatal Drug Infusions
- Launched a Readiness Assessment for Barcode Verification Systems in Community Pharmacies
- Received approval for continued listing as a Patient Safety Organization (PSO)
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Key Plans for 2012
- Launch the 2012 ISMP International Medication Safety Self Assessment for Oncology (January)
- Develop a High-Alert Medication Modeling and Error Reduction Scorecards (HAMMERS) tool for community pharmacies
- Complete a 4-year study on patient counseling when high-alert medications are dispensed from community pharmacies
- Develop a Root Cause Analysis Workbook for Community Pharmacies
- Establish an ISMP Fellowship for Physicians in collaboration with a local teaching hospital
- Launch an insulin safety component on www.ConsumerMedSafety.org
- Redesign the www.ISMP.org website to maximize access to tools and information
- Redesign and relaunch the www.ConsumerMedSafety.org website to maximize access to consumer tools and information
- Begin a 4-year study as a consultant with the University of Illinois in Chicago on simulation training for opioids and drug name testing
- Publish an updated 3rd edition of the Medication Errors book
- Establish guidelines and tools to assist the second victims (practitioners who make errors) and third victims (organizations where errors happen) of medication errors
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