This week's featured article: ISMP Survey Shows Provider Text Messaging Often Runs Afoul of Patient Safety
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. Practitioners are encouraged to share this publication at committee meetings to initiate conversations about preventing similar errors within their organizations.
Subscription Options
Online access to twenty-five (25) issues per year. Subscriptions start with the first issue after the date of purchase. You will receive a reminder notice via email to renew your annual subscription before your subscription expires. Your subscription will not automatically renew.
Access to back issues are not included. Single issues are available for purchase.
Special pricing for group purchase, contact ISMP.
Individual subscription: $195.00/year
Subscription Information
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Online access for one (1) user
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A user log-in required
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PDF version available to download and redistribute internally
Organization subscription: $278.00/year
Subscription Information
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Online access for up to 50 users within an organization
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Individual log-in accounts required
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Instructions to add users to a subscription will be emailed to the user purchasing the subscription
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Subscriptions are location/site-based. If you have multiple locations/hospitals, please purchase an organization subscriptions for each site OR contact ISMP for group purchases
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Please use your organization email address when subscribing
Browse Issues
Acute Care
Volume 22, Issue 22
This week's featured article: QuarterWatch™ (2017 Quarter 1 Data)
Acute Care
Volume 22, Issue 21
This week's featured article: Unreadable Barcodes and Multiple Barcodes on Packages Can Lead to Errors
Acute Care
Volume 22, Issue 20
This week's featured article: Alarming Survey Results from CDC: Unsafe Injection Practices Continue
Acute Care
Volume 22, Issue 19
This week's featured article: ISMP Launches the First High-Alert Medication Safety Self Assessment for Inpatient and Outpatient Facilities
Acute Care
Volume 22, Issue 18
This week's featured article: Maximize Benefits of IV Workflow Management Systems by Addressing Workarounds and Errors
Acute Care
Volume 22, Issue 17
This week's featured article: Telling True Stories is an ISMP Hallmark - Here's Why You Should Tell Stories, Too...
Acute Care
Volume 22, Issue 16
This week's featured article: Multifactorial Causes of Tacrolimus Errors: Confusion with Strength/Formulation, Look-Alike Names, Preparation Errors, and More
Acute Care
Volume 22, Issue 15
This week's featured article: QuarterWatch™ (2016 Annual Report) Part II
Acute Care
Volume 22, Issue 14
This week's featured article: QuarterWatch (2016 Annual Report) Part I
Acute Care
Volume 22, Issue 13
This week's featured article: The Texting Debate: Beneficial Means of Communication or Safety and Security Risk?
Acute Care
Volume 22, Issue 12
This week's featured article: Death Due to Pharmacy Compounding Error Reinforces Need for Safety Focus
Acute Care
Volume 22, Issue 11
This week's featured article: Common Missteps with Medication Safety: Rolling a Single Dice, Ineffective Strategies, and Unexecuted Action Plans
Acute Care
Volume 22, Issue 10
This week's featured article: Despite Technology, Verbal Orders Persist, Read Back is Not Widespread, and Errors Continue
Acute Care
Volume 22, Issue 9
This week's featured article: Unrealized Exposure to Heparin Leads to Missed HIT Diagnosis and Subsequent Limb Thrombosis
Acute Care
Volume 22, Issue 8
This week's featured article: QuarterWatch™ (2016 Quarter 3 Data)
Acute Care
Volume 22, Issue 7
This week's featured article: Two Unsafe Practices: Administration of a Product with a Precipitate and Reuse of a Saline Flush Syringe
Acute Care
Volume 22, Issue 6
This week's featured article: Two Effective Initiatives for C-Suite Leaders to Improve Medication Safety and the Reliability of Outcomes