These guidelines provide consensus-based best practices for safety issues that continue to cause fatal and harmful errors in patients.
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Whether you have experienced a medication error in your organization or you are proactively implementing prevention strategies, you are not alone. Thousands of organizations worldwide have relied on ISMP's resources for institutional change to reduce errors on a daily basis. 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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These guidelines address at-risk behaviors and unsafe practices associated with subcutaneous insulin use in the inpatient setting and during transitions of care.
These ISMP guidelines have been updated to include a call for increased use of technology/automation in sterile compounding.
ISMP guidelines currently in development to help improve the safety of the electronic communication of medical records.
These ISMP guidelines were developed to help healthcare facilities standardize the safe administration of parenteral IV push medications.
These ISMP guidelines serve as a resource for acute care organizations developing or revising policies and procedures related to administration of scheduled medications.
These ISMP guidelines help healthcare organizations incorporate the elements of safe order communication when designing paper-based or electronic order sets.
These ISMP guidelines offer consensus-based recommendations for the safe use of automated dispensing cabinets that are based on a collaborative approach.
These ISMP guidelines were developed to help healthcare facilities standardize the safe use of smart infusion pump technology.