ISMP Medication Safety Alert!®

Community/Ambulatory

A valuable resource to reduce medication error risk in outpatient settings

The ISMP Medication Safety Alert!®Community/Ambulatory Care is a 4-5 page digital newsletter, published monthly for healthcare practitioners in ambulatory settings, including community pharmacies, outpatient clinics, physician offices, and state institutions.

Who reads this newsletter?

  • Community/ambulatory care pharmacists
  • Pharmacy managers and executives
  • Pharmacy technicians and other pharmacy staff
  • Physicians and nurses in ambulatory practice
  • Anyone concerned with medication safety

Subscription Information

  • Twelve (12) issues per year
  • One-year subscription rate: $65.00
  • Distributed via email on a monthly basis
  • Special pricing for group purchases; contact ISMP 
  • One-year subscriptions start from the date of purchase. You will be granted access to issues released after date of purchase for one year. This does not include access to back issues.
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Ambulatory Care Providers, Insurers
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Community/Ambulatory

FDA Advise-ERR: Veterinary Drug and Human Drug – A Drug Name Mix-up

Problem: Pharmacists and veterinarians should be aware of the potential for animal injury due to confusion between human drugs and animal drugs that have lookalike or sound-alike names. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Center for Veterinary Medicine (CVM) has recently received a report of a dog mistakenly receiving the human drug SINEQUAN (doxepin) instead of the prescribed animal drug ZENIQUIN (marbofloxacin). The dog became ill (lethargy, anorexia, and oliguria) 24 hours after being administered the SINEquan. Fortunately, the dog was treated and recovered.

Drug name confusions...

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Community/Ambulatory VOLUME 14, ISSUE 5

Medication Safety Alert! May 2015

This month's main topic: QuarterWatch™ 2014 Quarter 2: Zolpidem and Canagliflozin Safety Signals, Thousands of Incomplete Rosiglitazone Reports
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Community/Ambulatory VOLUME 14, ISSUE 3

Medication Safety Alert! March 2015

This month's main topic: Recommendations for Practitioners to Prevent Vaccine Errors. Part 2: Analysis of ISMP Vaccine Errors Reporting Program (ISMP VERP)
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