Topic: Institute For Safe Medication Practices
Conflicting requirements in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' interpretive guidelines for storing and dating the expiration of...
by Terry J. Allen, Special to CorpWatch January 22nd, 2012 Photo: Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, U.S. House of Representatives Ondis...
Pssst. Wanna buy some chemo drugs?A new trend in pharmaceutical sales has raised concerns over ethics and patient safety, as companies buy up critical cancer drugs in short supply and attempt to resell them at huge markups.Rather than operate by ...
It is one of the great ironies of modern medical care that the drugs which save lives and heal sick people also are a major cause of illness and...
Pharmacists and other health-care practitioners say ongoing drug shortages are accompanied by difficulties including a lack of available information, trouble finding alternative medications, and deadly errors, according to a survey conducted by the nonprofit Institute for Safe Medication Practices. ) In August we ...
On the heels of hundreds of reported complaints to the Food and Drug Administration, Ciba Vision, the makers of Clear Care Cleaning and Disinfecting Solution, are planning improvements to the product's label. What's more, the Institute for Safe Medication Practices ...
Bar-code technology is widespread in the general retail environment and is typically used to maintain product pricing information and to track inventory movement. Several studies have shown that bar-code technology can significantly reduce errors in medication dispensing and administration. Similar initiatives to ...
An article on MSNBC website on July 9, 2008, "Hospital bullies take a toll on patient safety," cited how a lack of emotional intelligence affects the quality of medical care, and health care costs. Hospitals today are stressful workplaces and most of ...
As I well know, because that's what happened to my daughter a few years ago in one of my more inglorious moments as a parent. I had just switched from hard lenses to soft, and my contact lens dispenser recommended Clear ...
The Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP), a nonprofit organization devoted to medication error prevention and safe medication use, has a voluntary practitioner error-reporting program that has helped to identify a variety of medication errors and their causes. ISMP receives about 1 ...
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This session features Michael Cohen and Susan Paparella discussing the ...2011-09-20 -
Vaccine Mix-ups: Adacel (Tdap) and Daptacel ...
The Institute for Safe Medication Practices recently reported on several ...2008-06-10 -
Drug Name Confusion Between Kuric and ...
The Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) recently reported on ...2009-01-14
