This week's featured article: Investigational Drugs: Product-Related Issues Pose Significant Challenges (Part I)
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.
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Learn about some of the unique challenges involved in managing complex insulin therapy across the continuum of care, including the use of concentrated insulins, insulin vials, and pens.
Learn about the risks associated with IV medications and the need for adoption of proven technologies and best practices to optimize the safety and reliability of sterile compounding.
This program is an ASHP eLearning activity developed in partnership with the Institute for Safe Medication Practices.
This assessment offers hospitals, long-term care facilities, and outpatient facilities a unique opportunity to assess the safety of systems and practices associated with up to 11 categories of high-alert medications.
These guidelines provide consensus-based best practices for safety issues that continue to cause fatal and harmful errors in patients.
Learn about the latest trends in opioid therapy, as well as preventable errors that involve opioids and the latest safety considerations for these commonly-used agents.
Two-day intensive workshop in October in Nashville, TN!
Use this list to determine which medications require special safeguards to reduce the risk of errors and minimize harm.
Experts
Director of Error Reporting Programs
Medical Director
Director of Consulting Services
Medication Safety Specialist
Vice President