First ISMP Targeted Medication Safety Best Practices for Community Pharmacy Released

Focus Areas Include Wrong-Patient Errors, Barcode Verification, and Oral Methotrexate Dosing PLYMOUTH MEETING, PA—The Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) has developed the first set of ...

Pediatric Mental Health Crisis is Top Patient Safety Threat

ECRI’s annual list of patient safety concerns shows ongoing staffing shortages continue to put patients and providers at risk; report issued in conjunction with Patient Safety Awareness Week, March...

ECRI CEO Marcus Schabacker to Deliver Keynote Patient Safety Address

Board-certified anesthesiologist Marcus Schabacker to speak about perioperative patient safety at the New Jersey State Society of Anesthesiologists Annual Meeting, March 25; focus of his talk is on...

ISMP Adds Seven Name Pairs to List of Drug Names with Tall Man (Mixed Case) Letters

Majority of Survey Respondents Agree Tall Man Lettering Helps Prevent Errors PLYMOUTH MEETING, PA—Recently the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) updated its list of medication name pa...

Gaps in Recalls of Home-Use Medical Devices Top ECRI's Hazards List for 2023

ECRI’s report warns of potential safety risks with 10 health technologies, including single-use products, medication cabinets, cybersecurity of cloud-based systems, and ventilator disinfection PLY...

Patient Safety Leader Launches ECRI Now, a New Video Show Featuring Healthcare Insights from the Experts

First episode covers technology hazards, vaccination best practices, and a sleep apnea device recall PLYMOUTH MEETING, PA—ECRI, the most trusted voice in healthcare, announces the launch of a new ...

Patient Safety Org Says it is Time to Review New Evidence for FDA-Approved Weight Loss Drugs

ECRI report identifies reasons medications have been underutilized and urges action to help combat America’s obesity epidemic PLYMOUTH MEETING, PA—With rates of obesity and diabetes at record h...

ISMP Announces 25th Annual Cheers Award Recipients

PLYMOUTH MEETING, PA—The Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) is proud to announce its 25th Annual Cheers Awards winners. The awards ceremony for this landmark anniversary year will be h...

ECRI Names Monument Health Winner of 2022 Safety Excellence Award

Bestowed by the joint ECRI and Institute for Safe Medication Practices PSO, the award lauds the South Dakota health system for improving culture of safety PLYMOUTH MEETING, PA—ECRI, the nation’s l...