ISMP Medication Safety Alert!®

Featured Articles

The articles listed below were featured in the ISMP Medication Safety Alert! newsletters. New articles are frequently published highlighting important medication safety information. Related articles can be found in the full newsletter publications. You can subscribe to the full newsletters here.

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At the start of each year, ISMP has often encouraged organizations to select and follow a New Year’s resolution related to medication safety. This year we, too, have made a New Year’s resolution: To highlight for our readers key information about selected high-alert medications and how to reduce patient harm when prescribing, dispensing, and administering these drugs. To best accomplish this, we will be publishing regularly appearing “high-alert medication” features and safety briefs to bring heightened national attention to the problems and suggested safety improvements with these medications...