This week's featured article: Numerous Wrong Dose Errors with PAXLOVID
ISMP Medication Safety Alert!®
Acute Care
A valuable resource to reduce medication error risk in your hospital
The ISMP Medication Safety Alert!® Acute Care is a digital newsletter, published every two weeks for hospital healthcare professionals.
Who reads this newsletter?
- Directors of Pharmacy
- Pharmacists
- Nurses
- Physicians
- Medication and Patient Safety Officers
- Risk Managers
- Product Managers
- Anyone concerned with medication safety
Subscription Options
Online access to twenty-five (25) issues per year. You will receive a reminder notice via email to renew your annual subscription before your subscription expires. Your subscription will not automatically renew.
Single issues are available for purchase.
Academic-based subscription: contact ISMP for pricing
Pharmaceutical Industry (and other healthcare related companies): contact ISMP for pricing
Health Systems & Multi Site organizations: contact ISMP for pricing
Personal Subscription
Subscription Information
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$210.00 per year
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Online access for one (1) user
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No redistribution is permitted
Single Site Subscription
Subscription Information for healthcare organizations (e.g. hospitals, clinics, pharmacies)
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$310.00 per year
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Online access for up to 50 users within a single site organization
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Permission to redistribute within single-site location
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Instructions to add users to a subscription will be emailed to the user purchasing the subscription
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Please use your organization email address when subscribing
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Health Systems/Multi-site organizations: contact ISMP for discounted pricing
Browse Issues
Acute Care
Volume 27, Issue 12
This week's featured article: A Comprehensive, Proactive Plan Is Needed to Mitigate Risk When Changing Drug Concentrations
Acute Care
Volume 27, Issue 11
This week's featured article: Adopt Strategies to Manage Look-Alike and/or Sound-Alike Medication Name Mix-Ups
Acute Care
Volume 27, Issue 10
This week's featured article: Are You Well Positioned to Resolve Conflicts with the Safety of an Order? Learning from a Physician’s Homicide Trial and the Firing of Multiple Healthcare Workers
Acute Care
Volume 27, Issue 9
This week's featured article: Survey Shows Room for Improvement with Three New Best Practices for Hospitals
Acute Care
Volume 27, Issue 8
This week's featured article: Personal Practice Changes Practitioners Would Make after Learning Firsthand about Medication Errors at ISMP
Acute Care
Volume 27, Issue 7
This week's featured article: Criminalization of Human Error and a Guilty Verdict: A Travesty of Justice that Threatens Patient Safety
Acute Care
Volume 27, Issue 6
This week's featured article: Analysis Identifies Multiple Common Causes of Norepinephrine Errors
Acute Care
Volume 27, Issue 5
This week's featured article: Addressing Disrespectful Behaviors and Creating a Respectful, Healthy Workplace – Part II
Acute Care
Volume 27, Issue 4
This week's featured article: Survey Suggests Disrespectful Behaviors Persist in Healthcare: Practitioners Speak Up (Yet Again) – Part I
Acute Care
Volume 27, Issue 3
This week's featured article: Three New Best Practices in the 2022-2023 Targeted Medication Safety Best Practices for Hospitals
Acute Care
Volume 27, Issue 2
This week's featured article: Start the Year Off Right by Addressing These Top 10 Medication Safety Concerns from 2021
Acute Care
Volume 27, Issue 1
This week's featured article: 2022 Ushers in the Beginning of a New Era at ISMP
Acute Care
Volume 26, Issue 25
This week's featured article: Path to New Beginnings: ISMP 24th Annual Cheers Awards
Acute Care
Volume 26, Issue 24
This week's featured article: Adverse Glycemic Events and Critical Emergencies
Acute Care
Volume 26, Issue 23
This week's featured article: Multiple Error Pathways with the Monoclonal Antibodies, Casirivimab and Imdevimab
Acute Care
Volume 26, Issue 22
This week's featured article: Prevent Errors During Emergency Use of Hypertonic Sodium Chloride Solutions
Acute Care
Volume 26, Issue 21
This week's featured article: Challenges with Requiring Five Characters During Automated Dispensing Cabinet (ADC) Drug Searches Via Override