ISMP created and periodically updates a list of potential high-alert medications. During June and July 2018, practitioners responded to an ISMP survey designed to identify which drugs were most ...

Standard MM.7.10 The organization develops processes for managing high-risk or high-alert medications. JCAHO defines high-risk and high-alert medications as medications involved in a high ...

The Institute for Safe Medication Practices added tranexamic acid injection solutions to its high-alert medications list, which registers drugs linked with a high risk of causing significant harm ...

Meeting medication management requirements set by CMS and The Joint Commission is challenging for healthcare organizations because of the amount of regulations and the coordination necessary for ...

Researchers retrospectively evaluated all high-alert medication alerts, alert types and override documentation that occurred from Jan. 2008-Nov. 2008. Simultaneously, researchers evaluated nursing and ...

Factors associated with increased independent risk of harm were 30-day readmission, time of day 0300–0659, and Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) high-alert medications. Factors ...

Hospitals are taking steps to prevent errors in the use of so-called high-alert medications -- those that, when given in the wrong dose or used incorrectly, have the highest risk of seriously ...