Engaging the OR and Procedural Areas to Mitigate Risks with Controlled Substance Medications

Workflow processes in ORs and procedural areas can contribute to an environment vulnerable to drug diversion. Broad access to a variety of medications, delays in documentation, rapid patient turn o...

Quantifying the Holistic Costs of Controlled Substance Medication Waste

The availability of opioid medication quantities and doses above what is typically prescribed for patients is a known medication safety and diversion risk because it requires practitioner manipulat...

Diversion is a Threat to Patient Safety: Adopting Best Practices for Safe Management of Controlled Substances

Drug diversion in healthcare is a serious matter, but the extent of the problem is widely unknown because it often not detected or reported. Statistics from the US Substance Abuse and Mental Health...

Important Actions Community Pharmacies Need To Take Now To Reduce Potentially Harmful Dispensing Errors

While healthcare consumers across the US are facing the ever-growing health threat from a fourth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, there remains another unresolved national problem continuing to gener...

Importance of Premarket Labeling and Packaging Safety Evaluations in Minimizing Postmarket Medication Errors

Medication errors reported by healthcare practitioners to the ISMP National Medication Errors Reporting Program (ISMP MERP) demonstrate the need for the pharmaceutical industry to be more proactive...

ISMP Medication Safety Self Assessment® for Perioperative Settings: How to Obtain the Most Valuable, Accurate, and Useful Results

The perioperative setting is one of the most medication-intensive areas in healthcare, often with more medications administered per patient than in any other patient care setting. The limited use o...

Human Factors and Medication Errors

This educational program will explore human factors and the role it plays in medication safety. The speaker will first review human cognition and the cognitive tendencies and biases that influence ...

Enhance Your Medication Error Reporting Program to Improve Global Medication Safety

Most health care organizations use voluntary error and adverse event reporting programs to attempt to learn about potential safety risks in their medication-use process. The 2006 Institute of Medic...

A Look Behind the Scenes: Global Progress in Patient Safety and Prevention of Harmful Medication Errors

A lot has happened in the past 20 years to improve medication safety around the world. From adoption of various medication safety technologies and elimination of handwritten prescriptions, to impro...

Prevention of Drug Diversion in the Healthcare Setting

Opioid-related overdoses and deaths are steadily rising. To combat this epidemic, health care professionals must do all that they can to stop the diversion of opioids and other controlled substance...