This week's featured article: Speaking Up About Patient Safety Requires an Observant Questioner and a High Index of Suspicion
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 24, Issue 19
This week's featured article: Published Review of Independent Double Checks Shouldn’t Dissuade Providers from Using Them Judiciously
Acute Care
Volume 24, Issue 18
This week's featured article: SPEAK UP for Medication Safety: September 17, 2019 The First World Health Organization World Patient Safety Day
Acute Care
Volume 24, Issue 17
This week's featured article: IV Push Gap Analysis Tool (GAT) Helps Uncover National Priorities for Safe Injection Practices
Acute Care
Volume 24, Issue 16
This week's featured article: QuarterWatchTM (includes new data from Quarter 4, 2018 and Quarter 1, 2019): Focus on Four New Drugs: Xofluza, Aimovig, Ajovy, and Emgality
Acute Care
Volume 24, Issue 15
This week's featured article: Partnering with Families and Patient Advocates: Another Line of Defense in Adverse Event Surveillance
Acute Care
Volume 24, Issue 14
This week's featured article: New Recommendations to Improve Drug Allergy Capture and Clinical Decision Support
Acute Care
Volume 24, Issue 13
This week's featured article: To Close for Comfort: Fatal Zinc Overdose Narrowly Avoided
Acute Care
Volume 24, Issue 12
This week's featured article: ISMP Call to Action: Resist the Land of Not Yet and Distribute Free NurseAdviseERR® to All Nurses
Acute Care
Volume 24, Issue 11
This week's featured article: Independent Double Checks: Worth the Effort if Used Judiciously and Properly
Acute Care
Volume 24, Issue 10
This week's featured article: Dangerous Wrong-Route Errors with Tranexamic Acid – A Major Cause for Concern
Acute Care
Volume 24, Issue 9
This week's featured article: As Approval of Medical Cannabis Spreads State by State, Product Labeling Improvements Are a Must
Acute Care
Volume 24, Issue 8
This week's featured article: What’s in a Name? Newborn Naming Conventions and Wrong-Patient Errors
Acute Care
Volume 24, Issue 7
This week's featured article: ISMP Celebrates Your Contribution to Our Success During Our 25th Anniversary
Acute Care
Volume 24, Issue 6
This week's featured article: QuarterWatchTM (includes data from Quarter 3, 2018): Focus on Three Psychoactive Drugs: Gabapentin, Pregabalin, and Pimavanserin
Acute Care
Volume 24, Issue 5
This week's featured article: ISMP Calls on FDA – No More Syringes for Vinca Alkaloids!
Acute Care
Volume 24, Issue 4
This week's featured article: Your Attention Please… Designing Effective Warnings
Acute Care
Volume 24, Issue 3
This week's featured article: Another Round of the Blame Game: A Paralyzing Criminal Indictment that Recklessly “Overrides” Just Culture