High-alert medications are drugs that bear a heightened risk of causing significant patient harm when they are used in error. Although mistakes may or may not be more common with these drugs, the consequences of an error are clearly more devastating to patients.
2024年1月11日 · ISMP extends our thanks to nearly 100 practitioners who validated our ISMP List of High-Alert Medications in Acute Care Settings. Most practitioners were pharmacists (85%) working in an inpatient pharmacy (63%), although we also heard from others (e.g., nurses, risk/quality/safety managers, pharmacy technicians).
ISMP Guidance and Tools - ECRI and ISMP
Consensus-based best practices for issues that continue to cause fatal and harmful errors. Medications requiring special safeguards to reduce the risk of errors and minimize harm. Drug name pairs or larger groupings that look similar utilize bolded uppercase letters to help draw attention to the dissimilarities in look-alike drug names.
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High-Alert Medications in Acute Care Settings - ECRI and ISMP
2024年1月10日 · High-alert medications are drugs that bear a heightened risk of causing significant patient harm when they are used in error. Although mistakes may or may not be more common with these drugs, the consequences of an error are clearly more devastating to patients. Use ISMP's List of High-Alert Medications in Acute Care S
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High-Alert Medications for Community/Ambulatory Health Care
2012年1月9日 · For years, the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) has published a list of high-alert medications for acute care settings. In fact, that list has been the focus of medication error prevention activities in individual hospitals, large health systems, statewide initiatives, and national campaigns throughout the United States.
ISMP List of High-Alert Medications in Community/Ambulatory
2021年10月1日 · This fact sheet provides a list of high-alert medications commonly used in ambulatory care and recommends strategies to reduce risk of errors.
2024年11月21日 · Instructions for use should be made available in clinical areas that use high-risk medications. o To prevent injury in an emergency setting, determine which antidotes, reversal agents,
High-Alert Medications - ISMP Canada
High-alert medications are medications that bear a heightened risk of causing significant harm when they are used in error. This list is intended to assist care organizations in developing their own, organization-specific high-alert medication list.
ISMP's List of High-Alert Medications in Acute Care Settings.
2024年1月14日 · This fact sheet lists medications with a high risk of causing significant harm to patients when incorrectly administered. The 2024 publication reflects insights gathered through a survey of current medication use in acute care facilities.
High-Alert Medications in Long-Term Care (LTC) Settings - ECRI and ISMP
2021年5月20日 · High-alert medications are drugs that bear a heightened risk of causing significant patient harm when they are used in error (e.g., wrong drug, wrong dose, wrong route, wrong resident). Although mistakes may or may not be more common with these drugs, the consequences of an error are clearly more devastating to patient
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