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Patient Safety Alert: Urgent Alert Regarding Medication Vial Coring and Fragmentation Risks
Issued by: Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation (APSF) and ECRI/Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) APSF and ECRI/ISMP have received several reports recently of medication vial coring in...
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Ochsner Children’s and ISMP launch pharmacy fellowship
Nation’s first ISMP medication safety fellowship shared with a healthcare provider
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ISMP Releases 2025-2026 Targeted Medication Safety Best Practices for Community Pharmacy
New Best Practices Focus on Weight-Based Dosing, Return-to-Stock Process, Vaccine Administration The Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) has launched its second set of specific, consensu...
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ISMP Announces 2025 Just Culture Scholarship Recipients
Leaders Chosen from Muscogee (Creek) Nation Medical Center, St. Joseph’s Health, Philadelphia FIGHT The Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) has awarded the 2025 Judy Smetzer Just Cultur...
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ISMP Announces 27th Annual Cheers Award Recipients
Awardees Focused on Vaccine Safety, Opioid Management, Technology The Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) is proud to announce the 27th Annual Cheers Award winners, who have worked to si...
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ISMP Releases Bi-Annual Report on Vaccination Errors that Reveals Mistakes with Newer Vaccines
As this year’s cold and flu season is underway and new COVID variants continue to emerge, the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) is raising awareness that more needs to be done to reduc...
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Building resilient supply chains amid tariff uncertainty
By Stuart Morris-Hipkins, MSc, ACMA, CGMAChief Solutions Officer, ECRI Keeping up with tariffs’ effects on healthcare can feel futile right now, as policies and market reactions change frequently....
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Data insights launched to address healthcare supply chain vulnerabilities from tariffs
Supply Chain Navigator leverages country of origin data to manage disruptions caused by tariffs Global tariffs have the potential to significantly disrupt the healthcare supply chain. The U.S. has ...
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Oxygen concentrators research designed to reduce preventable oxygen-related patient deaths
ECRI partnered with Oxygen CoLab to conduct intensive testing of oxygen devices to identify and catalogue those best for resource-deprived healthcare settings More than 1 million deaths occur ev...
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