Dear Friends and Colleagues
As we near a close to 2012, ISMP has been busy making plans for 2013 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 2013, you will see that our work will continue expanding to reach consumers while maintaining
our ever-important focus on you, our providers of healthcare services. Our plans are ambitious, but
our dedicated staff members are committed to strengthening our ability to help you prevent medication
errors.
You Can Make a Difference
ISMP is not a membership organization, and we conduct our work fully independent of government agencies
and the pharmaceutical industry. Therefore, we are again reaching out to the individuals who know us best:
our newsletter readers. You are truly the cornerstone of ISMP, serving as the primary conduit for timecritical
medication safety information that reaches millions of healthcare professionals. As newsletter readers,
you have been on an extraordinary journey with us—many since our first biweekly publication in January
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
Your gift, small or large, will further our lifesaving work and enhance our capacity to help you protect
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.
To Make a Donation
To make a donation, please click the button below.
We thank you for your support!
Please support ISMP by making a charitable donation and asking
your health-system leadership to make a donation.
The transformational change necessary to improve patient safety will always depend on
actively caring individuals who, never satisfied with being a bystander, selflessly and
passionately get drawn into the lifesaving work of keeping our patients safe from harm.
—Michael R. Cohen, President, ISMP
The work of the ISMP has informed, educated, and challenged healthcare professionals to
improve the systems in which medications are used. The healthcare system is safer today
both in this country and in other nations around the world because of its pioneering
efforts and tremendous leadership. ISMP’s efforts have touched the lives of countless
healthcare professionals, administrators, manufacturers and, most importantly, the patients
that the healthcare industry looks to serve. ISMP is the worldwide leader in advancing
patient safety!
—William M. Ellis, Executive Director, Board of Pharmacy Specialties
It is principally through the efforts of ISMP that we have all gained a rich understanding
both of the underlying causes of medication errors and steps that can and
should be taken to prevent their occurrence.
—Dennis O’Leary, former CEO of The Joint Commission (TJC)
Consistently, persistently, unrelentingly, ISMP has identified hazards in every aspect of
the medication process, provided timely warnings to the clinical community, and
pressed the FDA and pharmaceutical industry to make needed changes.
—Lucian L. Leape, Adjunct Professor, Harvard School of Public Health
For additional testimonials, please visit: www.ismp.org/about/testimonials.asp.
Through your support ISMP is...
Key Accomplishments in 2012
- Completed the 2012 ISMP
International Medication Safety
Self Assessment for Oncology in
partnership with ISMP Canada
- Developed IV sterile compounding
safety guidelines based on a 2011
summit
- Launched a national, voluntary vaccine
error-reporting program
- Completed a state-wide medication
safety collaborative which included a
webinar series, onsite risk assessments, and
root cause analysis training
- Redesigned and relaunched the
ConsumerMedSafety.org website to
maximize access to consumer tools,
including an insulin safety center
- Analyzed more than 300,000 medication
errors and adverse drug events
reported to national and state reporting
programs and more than 200,000 serious
adverse drug events reported to the FDA
MedWatch program; shared the learning
from analysis via newsletters, journal
columns, advisories, special reports, national
alerts, educational programs, consultations,
and advocacy work
- Developed High-Alert Medication
Modeling and Error Reduction
Scorecards (HAMMERS) for community
pharmacies
- Developed a Root Cause Analysis
Workbook for Community Pharmacies
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Key Plans for 2013
- Publish an updated third edition of the
Medication Errors book
- Launch a long-term care edition of Nurse Advise-ERR
- Develop a medication safety self
assessment for perioperative care
settings
- Offer onsite assessments and offsite
simulation training in the area of sterile
compounding and compliance with USP
Chapter <797> in partnership with ClinicalIQ
- Partner with Consumer Reports
on Health to conduct consumer surveys
and publish medication safety articles
- Expand advocacy efforts related to
consumers who report medication errors
to ISMP
- Expand ISMP availability to serve as a
patient safety organization for large health
systems
- Redesign the ISMP.org website to
maximize access to tools and information
- Develop online continuing education
programs for various healthcare
professionals related to risk management
and medication safety
- Establish educational programs and
publications for pharmacy technicians
- Increase the use of social media and
mobile applications to reach a wider
audience of consumers and healthcare
providers
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