The Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP), based in suburban Philadelphia, is the nation’s only 501c (3) nonprofit organization devoted entirely to medication error prevention and safe medication use. ISMP represents over 30 years of experience in helping healthcare practitioners keep patients safe, and continues to lead efforts to improve the medication use process. The organization is known and respected worldwide as the premier resource for impartial, timely, and accurate medication safety information.
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More than 30 years ago, ISMP started a cornerstone of its medication error prevention efforts - a voluntary practitioner error-reporting program to learn about errors happening across the nation, understand their causes, and share “lessons learned” with the healthcare community.
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The Institute’s other initiatives include publishing four "ISMP Medication Safety Alert!®" newsletters for healthcare professionals and consumers that reach nearly a million total readers; presenting frequent educational programs, including teleconferences on current medication use issues; offering posters, videos, patient brochures, books and other resources; developing valuable medication safety tools such as lists of high alert drugs and potentially dangerous abbreviations; and providing confidential consulting services to healthcare systems to proactively evaluate medication systems or analyze medication-related sentinel events.
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