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.
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Recent Updates
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.
ASHP has issued a recall and correction notice for the publication NICU Primer for Pharmacists, to the typical glucose infusion rates that appear in Chapter 3.
This QuarterWatch™ annual report issue identifies sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 (SGLT2) inhibitor drugs for type 2 diabetes as ranking among the top safety concerns of the year.
ISMP has released the first in a series of “video newsletters” being produced in partnership with the Temple University School of Pharmacy that provide insight on emerging medication safety issues.
ASHP has issued an important correction notice for the publication Demystifying Drug Dosing in Obese Patients Critical Care, to section for Ibutilide that appears in Chapter 4.
The majority of drug manufacturer reports to the FDA about serious adverse events lack essential information, according to an ISMP authored article in the peer reviewed literature.
Caffeine powder is marketed as a “pick-me-up”, and young people and athletes sometimes use it to make inexpensive, homemade caffeinated drinks and foods. But use of this powder can result in serious harm, including death.
In 2016, ISMP celebrated two decades of publishing the ISMP Medication Safety Alert!® newsletter, the nation’s only publication reaching nearly every U.S. hospital with vital and potentially lifesaving information on medication and device errors.
Report from 2014 Summit Explores Factors Causing Shortages to Persist As shortages of lifesaving medicines, including antibiotics, chemotherapy, and cardiovascular drugs continue to plague the United States, a group of health care organizations released a report exploring measures that should be
ISMP is asking prescribers, pharmacists, and other healthcare professionals, as well as pharmacy computer system and e‐prescribing system vendors, to only use metric measurements in prescription directions.