Consensus-based best practices for issues that continue to cause fatal and harmful errors.
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These resources are developed from ISMP's review of reports through its national error reporting programs, peer-reviewed articles in its publications, and/or consensus gathering summits on topics pertinent to specific errors or hazards. ISMP offers a wide range of downloadable and easy to use resources. Many are free.
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Also known as the Look-alike and sound-alike (LASA) list.
Medications requiring special safeguards to reduce the risk of errors and minimize harm.
Award-winning DVD introduces viewers to “Just Culture".
Designed to heighten awareness of safe practices in Perioperative Settings.
Analyze your current status with implementation.
Medications that should not be crushed because of their special pharmaceutical formulations or characteristics.
This chart defines the stability and compatibility of medications that are routinely present in critical care, and intensive care settings. Wall Charts are shipped by a 3rd party supplier. Wall Charts are shipped on Thursdays only. Please contact [email protected] with any questions.
Developed in 2020 to help healthcare facilities standardize smart infusion pump technology.
Commonly referred to as the "Do Not Crush" list, healthcare professionals are alerted about medications that should not be crushed.
An analysis of vaccine error reports submitted to the ISMP National Vaccine Errors Reporting Program (ISMP VERP) during calendar years 2017 and 2018.
Standard best practices and processes directly associated with ADC design and functionality.
Strategies to safely present drug information in various electronic formats.
This poster presents sample drug orders with "q.d." and "q.i.d." that show how those abbreviations can be confused, and emphasizes that they be spelled out for greater clarity.
It is uncommon to need more than 2 or 3 tablets, capsules, vials, ampules, etc. to prepare a single dose of medication. This poster alerts healthcare professionals to this fact and urges verifying with a pharmacist medication doses that seem to require more than 2 or 3 of anything.
Crushing or splitting some oral medications may alter the intended effect and possibly result in patient harm. This poster provides a checklist of questions that healthcare practitioners should ask before they consider crushing or splitting medications.
Healthcare practitioners should use the exact metric weight when writing drug orders. This poster discourages prescribing only by volume or dosage limit, which can be ambiguous, and provides a correct sample order.
Healthcare practitioners should always prepareliquid oral medications in oral syringes. This poster emphasizes that the tips on oral syringes make it more difficult or impossible to accidentally administer the oral medication intravenously.