This week's featured article: COVID-19-Related Medication Errors: Remdesivir investigational drug labeling confusion; Failure to engage barcode medication administration (BCMA); Inability to weigh patients during telehealth encounters; Entering just a few letters for an ADC drug name search leads to an error; Missed doses
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 25, Issue 9
This week's featured article: Incorrect Use of Smart Infusion Pump in the Operating Room (OR) Leads to Milrinone Overdose
Acute Care
Volume 25, Issue 8 (Supplement)
This week's featured article: Leadership Support is Vital: If We Fail to Support Caregivers, There Will Be Few Left to Support Care
Acute Care
Volume 25, Issue 8
This week's featured article: Error-Prone Dose Expression on Label of Unapproved Drug, Ascorbic Acid, from Mylan
Acute Care
Volume 25, Issue 7 (Supplement)
This week's featured article: Considerations for Automated Dispensing Cabinet (ADC) Usage During COVID-19
Acute Care
Volume 25, Issue 7
This week's featured article: Planning for Anticipated Shortage of Smart Infusion Pumps and Dedicated Administration Sets
Acute Care
Volume 25, Issue 6 (Supplement)
This week's featured article: Clinical Experiences Keeping Infusion Pumps Outside the Room for COVID-19 Patients
Acute Care
Volume 25, Issue 6
This week's featured article: Revisiting the Need for MDI Common Canister Protocols During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Acute Care
Volume 25, Issue 5
This week's featured article: Do You Know What Doses Are Being Programmed in the OR? Make it an Expectation to Use Smart Infusion Pumps with DERS
Acute Care
Volume 25, Issue 4
This week's featured article: Two New Best Practices in the 2020-2021 Targeted Medication Safety Best Practices for Hospitals
Acute Care
Volume 25, Issue 3
This week's featured article: Errors Associated with Oxytocin Use: A Multi-organization Analysis by ISMP and ISMP Canada
Acute Care
Volume 25, Issue 2
This week's featured article: Medical Abbreviations That Have Contradictory or Ambiguous Meanings
Acute Care
Volume 25, Issue 1
This week's featured article: Start the New Year Off Right by Preventing These Top 10 Medication Errors and Hazards
Acute Care
Volume 24, Issue 25
This week's featured article: We Have the Winning Hand: 22nd ISMP Cheers Awards
Acute Care
Volume 24, Issue 24
This week's featured article: QuarterWatchTM (includes new data from Quarter 2, 2019): Methotrexate Errors, Trends Among Addictive Drugs, and Underreporting of Serious Events
Acute Care
Volume 24, Issue 23
This week's featured article: What’s in a Name? Survey Finds Wide Variety of Error-Prone Newborn Naming Conventions in Use Today
Acute Care
Volume 24, Issue 22
This week's featured article: A Lot Happens When You Report a Hazard or Error to ISMP – There’s No “Black Hole” Here!
Acute Care
Volume 24, Issue 21
This week's featured article: Over-the-Top Risky: Overuse of ADC Overrides, Removal of Drugs without an Order, and Use of Non-profiled Cabinets