Applying Best Practices for Injection Safety: A “How To” Roadmap

Using examples of events that have been reported to the ISMP National Medication Errors Reporting Program (ISMP MERP), data from cost-effectiveness research studies, and first-hand experience shift...

Ensuring Medication Safety in Parenteral Nutrition: The Role of Multi-Chamber Bags and Alternative Lipids

The Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) has been highlighting errors and harmful events related to parenteral nutrition (PN) for nearly two decades. Most recently, the long-standing shor...

Leveraging IV Robotics to Optimize Sterile Compounding Practices to Improve Safety

Learn about the role of IV robotics in the advancement of safety in sterile compounding operations and the steps needed to address perceived barriers for its implementation and use.

Transitioning to Ready-to-Administer IV Medications: Can it be Both Safe and Affordable?

Intravenous (IV) therapy is considered an essential component of healthcare delivery, with over 90% of hospitalized patients receiving some form of infusion therapy. Errors involving IV medications...

Improving Safety, Efficiencies, and Reducing Waste with Ready-to-Administer IV Medications: A Roadmap to Success

Many organizations have stated that to avoid the unnecessary, error-prone complexity of IV push medication preparation and administration, and to avoid the risk of contamination and personnel expos...

Taking Medication Error Reduction Strategies in the Hospital to the Next Level: The Case for Implementation Science

Implementation science aims to discover and apply strategies that accelerate successful integration of interventions into routine practice. This initiative will provide background information on th...

Reducing the Risk and Infection Outbreaks from Drug Diversion

Drug diversion is a serious problem that affects patients’ and health professionals’ safety. Patients may suffer from suboptimal therapy if their medications were diverted, receive substandard care...

The Pursuit of Prevention – Confronting Drug Diversion

Drug diversion is a serious problem that affects patients’ and health professionals’ safety. Patients may suffer from suboptimal therapy if their medications were diverted, receive substandard care...

Introducing ISMP’s New Targeted Medication Safety Best Practices for Community Pharmacy: 2023-2024

Join ISMP for a complimentary webinar as we seek to inspire and mobilize practitioners from around the US in the national adoption of specific consensus-based safe practices selected to reduce or e...

International Medication Safety Update

Around the world numerous organizations are tirelessly working to make medication-use systems safer. While the focus of these organizations may differ, they all share a common goal of ensuring that...

Human Factors Role and Considerations in Drug Labeling and Packaging

Human error can be described as a failure of a common sequence of psychological functions that are basic to human behavior. This failure involves perception of the situation, the way these stimuli ...

Call to Action: Experience in Adopting the ENFit System to Guard Against Accidental Tubing Misconnections

Catheter misconnections involving enteral-to-IV tubing are well documented in the patient safety literature.  They often lead to severe consequences for patients and families. Despite the recent ad...