Medication safety
New Community Pharmacy Safety Best Practices
The Institute for Safe Medication Practices released three new best practices for improving drug safety in ...
AUGUST 15, 2025
Stop Using Medication Error Rates as Metric for Benchmarking
Medication error rates should never be used to benchmark institutional performance or patient safety at a ...
JUNE 13, 2025
Tips for Avoiding Medication-Related Feeding Tube Clogs
Tube occlusions from medications are common, but there are several strategies to avoid them, pharmacy experts said ...
MAY 24, 2025
A Protocol for Minimizing Gene Therapy Risks to Pharmacists
The FDA has approved more than 40 cellular and gene therapy products to date, but there is a lack of ...
MAY 23, 2025
Modern PN Practice Leaves The ‘Wild West’ Behind
Until the early 2000s, pharmacists compounded parenteral nutrition without standardized guidelines, automation or ...
MAY 12, 2025
AI and Cyberattacks Ranked as Significant Threats to Patient Safety
Among the top 10 patient safety concerns facing the healthcare industry in 2025, as ranked by ECRI and ISMP in a ...
MAY 2, 2025
ISMP Issues Medication Safety Tips to Heed For Specialty Pharmacy
The Institute for Safe Medication Practices took its safety message on the road at the NASP 2024 Annual Meeting ...
APRIL 26, 2025
3 Patient Priorities in End-of-Life Anticoagulation
Patient preferences, anticoagulant benefit versus risk and limited life expectancy should be considered when ...
APRIL 23, 2025
A Protocol for Minimizing Gene Therapy Risks to Pharmacists
Amidst a lack of regulation to mitigate the risks GCTs pose to healthcare workers, a proposed standard operating ...
APRIL 5, 2025
Kienle’s 10 Building Blocks of Compounding Safety for 2025
Each year, Patricia Kienle, RPh, MPA, BCSCP, FASHP, the director of accreditation and medication safety at Cardinal ...
MARCH 25, 2025
Lessons Learned From ASHP’s Center of Excellence Program Recipients
As of 2024, ASHP has designated six institutions as Certified Centers of Excellence in Medication-Use Safety and ...
MARCH 19, 2025
ISMP: Human Factors a Key to Medication Safety
The most common error reported to the Institute for Safe Medication Practices Medication Errors Reporting Program ...
MARCH 18, 2025
