This month's featured article: Make Sure You Get the Right Mix...Ask Questions If Your Medicine is A Powder
ISMP Medication Safety Alert!®
Consumer Safe Medicine
Protect yourself and your loved ones from medication errors with a newsletter written just for you
In 2023, we will phase out the production of ISMP Medication Safety Alert! Safe Medicine. Therefore, we will not be accepting new subscriptions or renewals, effective immediately.
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The ISMP Medication Safety Alert!® Safe Medicine is unique among consumer health education newsletters because it focuses on the prevention of medication errors. Every other month, Safe Medicine™ teaches consumers how to become active partners with their healthcare practitioners and take a leading role in preventing medication errors.
Healthcare organizations, health insurers, physician practices, pharmacies, and other organizations are encouraged to purchase the content to share with their patients and employees. Safe Medicine™ adds value to your organization's existing health education program by supplying much-needed information about a critical issue in healthcare -- medication errors
Benefits of a subscription
- Easy-to-read articles presented in just two to three pages
- Available in a convenient electronic format
- Provides practical advice from the most trusted source of information about preventing mistakes with medicines
The Safe Medicine newsletter can be distributed by:
- Ambulatory healthcare facilities
- Clinics
- Business coalitions
- Employers
- Health insurance companies
- Physician practices
- Pharmacies
- Other organizations
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Subscription Options
Six (6) issues per year distributed bi-monthly via email. 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.
To purchase a subscription for your employees, contact ISMP for pricing.
Browse Issues
Consumer Safe Medicine
Volume 15, Issue 3
This month's featured article: Pain Relief Pumps: Don't Push the Button for Patients
Consumer Safe Medicine
Volume 15, Issue 2
This month's featured article: If Your Blood Glucose Levels Are High, You Might Be Using Your Insulin Pen Wrong
Consumer Safe Medicine
Volume 15, Issue 1
This month's featured article: The Risk of Continuing Medicines That Are No Longer Prescribed
Consumer Safe Medicine
Volume 14, Issue 6
This month's featured article: Myths Associated with Deadly Medicine Errors in the Home
Consumer Safe Medicine
Volume 14, Issue 5
This month's featured article: Measurement Mishaps with Liquid Medicines
Consumer Safe Medicine
Volume 14, Issue 4
This month's featured article: A New Warning for Consumers: Many Common Medicines and Herbals Can Cause or Worsen Heart Failure
Consumer Safe Medicine
Volume 14, Issue 3
This month's featured article: Breathing Easier: Safe Use of Inhaled Medicines
Consumer Safe Medicine
Volume 14, Issue 2
This month's featured article: Accidental Poisonings of Babies: Birth to 6 Months - How They Happen and What You Can Do To Prevent Them
Consumer Safe Medicine
Volume 14, Issue 1
This month's featured article: Oral Chemotherapy: Not Just an Ordinary Pill
Consumer Safe Medicine
Volume 13, Issue 6
This month's feature article: Even Low-Dose Methotrexate Can Cause Harm or Death If Taken Daily or with Certain Other Medicines
Consumer Safe Medicine
Volume 13, Issue 5
This month's featured article: Become more familiar with the medicine you take...Learn the generic name
Consumer Safe Medicine
Volume 13, Issue 4
This month's featured article: Getting the wrong person's medicine at the pharmacy: Easy steps consumers can take to help eliminate these errors
Consumer Safe Medicine
Volume 13, Issue 3
This month's feature article: Call a Rapid Response Team to Address Unresolved Safety or Health Concerns
Consumer Safe Medicine
Volume 13, Issue 2
This month's featured article: Take a tour of ISMP's ConsumerMedSafety.org website
Consumer Safe Medicine
Volume 13, Issue 1
This month's featured article: Liver Injuries From Herbals and Dietary Supplements Have Led to Death and Liver Transplants