Consensus-based best practices for issues that continue to cause fatal and harmful errors.
Acute Care Providers
As an inpatient healthcare provider, you may find it challenging to keep your patients safe from the risk of medication errors.
Whether you are an administrator in the C-Suite or a front-line practitioner, ISMP has resources that will help guide you to identify risk and implement strategies to improve safe medication use. The offerings linked on this page feature ISMP services, programs, and publications for error prevention and risk reduction, including consulting services that can help provide solutions to your safety challenges and expand your knowledge base.
These resources are built on years of analysis of thousands of real-life error reports by ISMP’s experienced staff, as well as direct visits to hundreds of practices sites.
Recent
Developed in 2020 to help healthcare facilities standardize smart infusion pump technology.
Suggestions for developing policies, procedures, and associated documents.
Helps consumers understand how errors happen and the steps necessary to keep them safe.
This program is an ASHP eLearning activity developed in partnership with the Institute for Safe Medication Practices.
Two-day intensive workshop in a virtual format.
Medications requiring special safeguards to reduce the risk of errors and minimize harm.
Address at-risk behaviors and unsafe practices in the inpatient setting and during transitions of care.
Experts
Director of Error Reporting Programs
Medical Director, ISMP; Professor of Anesthesiology & Pediatrics, The Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
Director of Consulting Services
Medication Safety Specialist
Vice President