List of recommendations created after a November 2017 stakeholder roundtable on minimizing the impact of drug shortages on patient care.
News and Press
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Recent Updates
This article appeared in the December 11, 2017 issue of Drug Topics.
This article appeared in the December 8, 2017 issue of Cardiovascular Business.
The majority of participants expressed a high level of concern regarding the potential safety risks with texting medical orders, including lack of order clarity, completeness and correctness.
The Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) announced its 20th Annual Cheers Awards winners at an awards dinner will be held on Tuesday, December 5, 2017, at B.B. King’s Blues Club in Orlando.
This article appeared in the October 24, 2017 issue of Pharmacy Today.
ISMP’s groundbreaking medication safety self assessment helps hospitals and certain outpatient settings evaluate their best practices related to specific high-alert medications, identify opportunities for improvement, and track their experiences over time.
This article appeared in the November 21, 2017 issue of Medical Device Business.
ASHP has announced a correction to the printed edition of the Handbook on Injectable Drugs, 19th edition, in the reconstitution instructions for intramuscular injection of cefepime.
ISMP’s new consensus-based practices help healthcare practitioners prevent medication errors and improve outcomes for adult patients with diabetes who are receiving subcutaneous insulin.
ISMP, with the support of Baxter International, has launched a unique two-year International Safe Medication Management Fellowship program.
ISMP has updated its antithrombotic therapy self assessment to include some newer oral anticoagulants and current strategies for the use of antithrombotic agents, many of which are high-alert medications.
The 2017 ISMP community/ambulatory self assessment addresses the pharmacist’s emerging role in immunization administration as well as new research findings about error prevention and evolving technologies.
ISMP announced its 19th [delete extra space after 19] Annual Cheers Awards winners at an awards dinner held on Tuesday evening, December 6, 2016, at Stoney’s Rockin’ Country in Las Vegas.
ISMP’s sterile compounding guidelines recommend hospitals implement systems that incorporate barcoding and other technologies to augment manual preparation and verification.
Wolters Kluwer has issued a correction for the neonatal dosing instructions given in the Penicillin G (Parenteral/Aqueous) monograph in in the Pediatric and Neonatal Lexi-Drugs database as well as in the print publication Pediatric & Neonatal Dosage Handbook--20th, 21st, 22nd, and 23rd editions.
ASHP (American Society of Health-System Pharmacists) and ISMP are partnering to develop an online Medication Safety Certificate Program that is scheduled to launch in spring 2017.
Wolters Kluwer has issued a correction for the Methylprednisolone Acetate Injection monograph in the Drug Facts & Comparisons database and in the print publication Drug Facts and Comparisons-- 2015 and 2016.