ISMP
AI and Cyberattacks Ranked as Significant Threats to Patient Safety
Among the top 10 patient safety concerns facing the healthcare industry in 2025, as ranked by ECRI and ISMP in a ...
MAY 19, 2025
ISMP Issues Medication Safety Tips to Heed For Specialty Pharmacy
The Institute for Safe Medication Practices took its safety message on the road at the NASP 2024 Annual Meeting ...
MAY 7, 2025
ISMP: Human Factors a Key to Medication Safety
The most common error reported to the Institute for Safe Medication Practices Medication Errors Reporting Program ...
MARCH 8, 2025
ISMP: Attending to Human Factors Would Increase Medication Safety
The most common error reported to the Institute for Safe Medication Practices Medication Errors Reporting Program ...
JANUARY 3, 2025
Enhancing Patient Safety Through Critical Drug Label Improvements
In the fast-paced environment of hospitals and healthcare facilities, the need for patient safety measures is ...
DECEMBER 13, 2024
Methotrexate a Case Study in Proactive Risk Assessment
It’s a situation that could happen anywhere, medication experts from the Institute for Safe Medication ...
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
ISMP Releases New Sterile Compounding Guidelines
How to drive the odds of sterile compounding errors to nearly zero through advanced technology: That’s the ...
SEPTEMBER 14, 2022
ISMP Launches New Perioperative Medication Safety Guidelines
Ambulatory surgical centers are among the areas that present a unique set of medication safety challenges due to ...
SEPTEMBER 8, 2022
Vaught Verdict a ‘Blow’ To Patient Safety Culture
Medication safety experts worry that the felony conviction of former nurse RaDonda Vaught for a fatal medication ...
JULY 5, 2022
One Error, One Journal Article, One Movement Toward Medication Safety
If you think it’s not possible to make a difference as one pharmacist, consider the story of Michael R. ...
MAY 18, 2022
Top 10 List of Med Errors and Hazards
What are the top 10 medication and safety errors listed by the Institute for Safe Medication Practices?
APRIL 10, 2020
ISMP Releases Updated Community/Ambulatory Pharmacy Medication Safety Self Assessment
Community and ambulatory pharmacy settings can now access a newly revised tool that will help them review and ...
FEBRUARY 20, 2017
