Developed to identify, inspire, and mobilize adoption of consensus-based Best Practices for specific medication safety issues in community pharmacy that can cause patient harm.
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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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Developed to support hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers, and other procedural locations in addressing identified national gaps in perioperative and procedural medication safety.
Identify best practices to support safe use of technology and automation in sterile compounding.
Consensus-based best practices for issues that continue to cause fatal and harmful errors.
Developed in 2020 to help healthcare facilities standardize smart infusion pump technology.
Standard best practices and processes directly associated with ADC design and functionality.
Strategies to safely present drug information in various electronic formats.
Address at-risk behaviors and unsafe practices in the inpatient setting and during transitions of care.
Best practice recommendations to standardize safe administration of parenteral IV push medications.
For acute care organizations developing or revising policies and procedures.
Incorporate these elements when designing paper-based or electronic order sets.