Institute for Safe Medication Practices

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The Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP), based in suburban Philadelphia, is the nation’s only 501c (3) nonprofit organization devoted entirely to medication error prevention and safe medication use.
ISMP represents over 30 years of experience in helping healthcare practitioners keep patients safe, and continues to lead efforts to improve the medication use process.
The organization is known and respected worldwide as the premier resource for impartial, timely, and accurate medication safety information.

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United States, Pennsylvania, Horsham

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+1 215-947-7797

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1994

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Sep 11, 2024	The Diagnostic Dilemma: Unpacking Errors in Patient Care	In the intricate world of healthcare, timely and accurate diagnoses are the lifeblood of effective treatment. Yet, a recent analysis by ECRI, a nonprofit focused on patient safety, reveals a troubling reality: diagnostic errors are alarming...
Sep 11, 2024	Honoring Healthcare Heroes: A Stamp of Recognition and the Need for Diagnostic Safety	In a world where the unsung heroes often go unnoticed, the U.S. Postal Service is stepping up to honor the healthcare community with a new Forever stamp. This tribute, set to be unveiled on October 1, 2024, is more than just a piece of pape...
Sep 6, 2024	Data analysis reveals common errors that prevent patients from getting timely, accurate diagnoses	PLYMOUTH MEETING, Pa., Sept. 6, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- A new data analysis from ECRI, a global patient safety nonprofit, finds that issues processing medical tests, delays in referrals, and miscommunication among healthcare staff are key driv...
Apr 12, 2023	Strength Conversion in Drug Listing	A drug strength or concentration of its active ingredient(s)/active moiety can be expressed in many ways. The United States Pharmacopeia (USP) General Chapter Labeling has issued standards for expressing the strength for drug and biologica...
Jun 2, 2022	Beyond baby formula: advancing best practices in FDA’s efforts to prevent shortages	The firestorm over baby formula shortages offers an opportunity for the Food and Drug Administration to address a bigger and more fundamental issue: the potential for similar circumstances across the agency’s entire regulatory portfolio. Mo...
Oct 1, 2021	After years of running trials for other drugmakers, TrialSpark is building its own pipeline	TrialSpark, one of several companies launched specifically to address the “mournful” cost of clinical development, now has $156 million more to work with — and with it, CEO Benjamine Liu has big plans to move into drug de...
Sep 23, 2021	Baxter International : Announces U.S. Approval and Launch of Ready-To-Use Cardiovascular Medicine Norepinephrine in Premix Formulation	PDF DEERFIELD, Ill. - 2021-09-23 Baxter International Inc. (NYSE:BAX), a global leader in sterile medication production and delivery, today announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval and commercial launch of premix Norep...
Aug 13, 2021	Jazz earns expanded approval for drug with controversial history, prompting expert pushback	Twenty-seven years ago, the FDA and the National Organization for Rare Disorders approached executives of a small Minnesota drugmaker and asked whether they could turn a notorious date-rape drug and dangerous bodybui...
Apr 2, 2019	A safety watchdog argues the FDA should reconsider approval of a Parkinson’s psychosis drug	A recent regulatory review of a controversial Parkinson’s drug may not have found any new or unexpected safety findings, but a nonprofit watchdog argues the assessment was insufficient and the Food and Drug Administration should reconsider ...
May 10, 2017	Study: One third of drugs had safety issues years after FDA approved them	“While the administration pushes for less regulation and faster approvals, those decisions have consequences,” Ross said. The Yale researchers’ previous studies concluded that the FDA approves drugs faster than its counterpart agency in Eur...
Jan 25, 2017	How safe are the newest hepatitis C drugs? A new report raises questions	Over the past few years, billions of dollars have been spent on new hepatitis C medicines because they could eliminate the virus in 90 percent or more of patients. But a new report finds that hundreds of cases of liver failure were associat...
May 2, 2016	Communication, care continuity often break down at hospital discharge	“I gathered all her medicine, and as soon as I saw that bottle, I knew she couldn’t come back from this,” said the daughter, Kristin Sigg, an oncology nurse. “There were many layers and mistakes made after she left the hospital. It should h...
Feb 13, 2015	A Drug Safety Call to Arms	Let’s be very clear – FAERS is vitally important to the drug safety landscape. As ISMP notes in its’ report: “The FAERS system is of critical importance for two reasons. Studies by ISMP and the FDA have shown that a majority of new FDA safe...
Feb 3, 2015	Are drug manufacturers being stingy with reporting side effects to the FDA?	The New York Times pointed out where some of the bigger drug makers fall into this issue: Thomas J. Moore, the senior scientist at the institute and the lead author of the report, noted that some companies — including Vertex Pharmaceuticals...
Sep 25, 2012	Improving patient safety has to involve stopping errors with infusion pumps for post-op pain	A subset of these pumps is used to deliver opium-like painkillers. These devices, referred to as intravenous patient-controlled analgesia (IV PCA), have been crucial to inpatient care. They allow patients themselves to control the delivery ...
Apr 6, 2012	Morning Read: Gingrich’s healthcare think tank sinks without him	The Institute for Safe Medicine Practices says the Food and Drug Administration should limit the use of a new MS treatment based of a review of adverse event reporting from 2011. The group says that the non-profit says that the combination ...
Mar 6, 2012	Patient-safety advocate speaks to hospital staff at site of daughter’s death	University Hospitals Case Medical Center invited Jerry to speak with staff at the hospital’s Quality and Patient Safety Fair, which coincides with National Patient Safety Awareness Week. Jerry’s daughter Emily died after a pharmacy technici...
Apr 5, 2010	Public Citizen report slams Minnesota Medical Board	Promoted Clinical Care Capacity Planning Learn how to manage clinical care capacity more efficiently during uncertain times. SAP Promoted This Patient Experience Checklist Is Your Key To Success in 2021 As healthcare systems strive to recov...
Jan 31, 2010	Physician Wellness Services targets burned-out, problem docs	Promoted Covid-19’s terrible toll on diabetes patients. What can be done? The public health crisis has undermined the economy and made people with chronic conditions more vulnerable and stressed. Learn more with a new report from Omada Heal...
Aug 14, 2009	Pharmacist going to jail over role in 2-year-old’s death	Instead, Cuyahoga County Judge Michael J. Corrigan on Friday sentenced Cropp to six months in a county jail, six months of home detention, three years of probation, 400 hours of community service and a $5,000 fine as well as court costs. Co...
May 14, 2009	A 2-year-old. A death. A pharmacist facing jail. What will spur lasting change?	Promoted Telemedicine’s potential to provide healthcare to the world’s most vulnerable Teladoc Health Head of R&D Yulun Wang highlights the impact of virtual care in underserved populations around the globe through the World Telehealth ...
	Are drug manufacturers being stingy with reporting side effects to the FDA?	In order for there to be a functioning and reliable system of noting adverse events and side effects from drugs, manufacturers must report that information to the FDA. In fact their reports account for 97 percent of that information. But ma...
	Improving patient safety has to involve stopping errors with infusion pumps for post-op pain	The recently released Consumer Reports’ Hospital Ratings of more than 1,000 U.S. hospitals highlighted the need to reduce hospital-caused patient harm. On a safety scale with 100 being the highest, only 158 hospitals received a score of hig...
	Physician Wellness Services targets burned-out, problem docs	MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota — The doctor is a brilliant diagnostician, but a lousy human being. He’s caustic, moody and condescending. He berates his staff, ignores his superiors and plays fast and loose with patient safety. He pops prescription...
	Pharmacist going to jail over role in 2-year-old’s death	CLEVELAND, Ohio â€” An area pharmacist who played a role in the death of a 2-year-old girl will spend six months in jail. Eric Cropp in February 2006 approved a pharmacy technician’sÂ fatal saline solution for 2-year-old Emily Jerry, who wa...
	Study: One third of drugs had safety issues years after FDA approved them	The Food and Drug Administration is under pressure from the Trump administration to approve drugs faster, but researchers at the Yale School of Medicine found that nearly a third of those approved from 2001 through 2010 had major safety iss...
	A 2-year-old. A death. A pharmacist facing jail. What will spur lasting change?	CLEVELAND, Ohio — Trade groups are preparing a legislative push to shield pharmacists from criminal prosecutions — disturbed by the potential of jail time for a Cleveland-area pharmacist after his mistake contributed to the death of a young...
	At U.S. hospitals, a drug mix-up could be just a few keystrokes away	More than four years ago, Tennessee nurse RaDonda Vaught typed two letters into a hospital’s computerized medication cabinet, selected the wrong drug from the search results, and gave a patient a fatal dose. Vaught was prosecuted this year ...
	Morning Read: Gingrich’s healthcare think tank sinks without him	The Center for Health Transformation filed for bankruptcy Wednesday in Atlanta, estimating it owes from $1 million to $10 million but has only as much as $100,000 in assets. Newt Gingrich was the chief fundraiser for the group that he start...
	Communication, care continuity often break down at hospital discharge	Within two weeks of Joyce Oyler’s discharge from the hospital, sores developed in her mouth and throat, and blood began seeping from her nose and bowels. Her daughter traced the source to the medicine bottles in Oyler’s home in St. Joseph, ...
	A Drug Safety Call to Arms	Last week, the Institute for Safe Medical Practices (ISMP) published an alarming report exposing the dirty secret about drug safety in America. Its report properly chronicled that pharmaceutical companies are largely responsible for collect...
	Public Citizen report slams Minnesota Medical Board	Is the Minnesota Board of Medical Practice too lax on discipline, or are Minnesota doctors just that good? Public Citizen, the consumer watchdog group founded by Ralph Nader, released a stinging report Monday that calls Minnesota the worst ...
	Patient-safety advocate speaks to hospital staff at site of daughter’s death	The father of a 2-year-old who died in 2006 due to a medication error at Cleveland’s University Hospitals returned to the site of the tragedy to stress to clinical staff the importance of openly reporting medical mistakes. “Human error is a...

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When was Institute for Safe Medication Practices founded?

Institute for Safe Medication Practices was founded in 1994.

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Parsers VC has collected 34 articles mentioning Institute for Safe Medication Practices, among them “The Diagnostic Dilemma: Unpacking Errors in Patient Care” (Sep 11, 2024) and “Honoring Healthcare Heroes: A Stamp of Recognition and the Need for Diagnostic Safety” (Sep 11, 2024).

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Yes, Institute for Safe Medication Practices is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Aug 1, 2025.