ISMP Medication Safety Alert!®
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Hospitals need to look no further than their own organization to clearly see the adverse effects of ongoing nationwide shortages of critical medications that threaten patient safety and health. Plaguing the provision of healthcare for years, costly drug shortages have become increasingly frequent, occur with little or no warning, and often result in ethics-entangled rationing of available supplies, compromised or delayed drug therapy, harmful errors, and other adverse outcomes.
ISMP conducted a survey in November and December 2013 on drug shortages involving essential components needed to...