Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Goal 3: Improve the safety of high-alert medications. Goal 4: Ensure safe surgery. Goal 5: Reduce the risk of health care-associated infections. Goal 6: Reduce the risk of patient harm resulting from falls. [2] [4]
Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies (REMS) is a program of the US Food and Drug Administration for the monitoring of medications with a high potential for serious adverse effects. REMS applies only to specific prescription drugs, but can apply to brand-name or generic drugs. [1] The REMS program was formalized in 2007.
Among others, ISMP maintains and disseminates a list of "do not crush" medications, [3] as well as clinical best practices. [4] The ISMP's Medication Safety Self-Assessment tool has been used in surveys of medication safety in hospitals in the United States and elsewhere. [5] [6] [7] [8]
As a result, patient safety has emerged as a distinct healthcare discipline, supported by an immature yet developing scientific framework. There is a significant transdisciplinary body of theoretical and research literature that informs the science of patient safety, [3] with mobile health apps becoming an increasingly important area of study. [4]
Pharmacovigilance (PV, or PhV), also known as drug safety, is the pharmaceutical science relating to the "collection, detection, assessment, monitoring, and prevention" of adverse effects with pharmaceutical products.
In October 2004, the FDA began requiring that boxed warnings be placed on all antidepressant medications, warning they may result in an increased risk of suicidal tendencies in children and adolescents. In May 2006, the boxed warning was expanded to young adults aged 18–24 years old. [6] [7]
Get AOL Mail for FREE! Manage your email like never before with travel, photo & document views. Personalize your inbox with themes & tabs. You've Got Mail!
It was designed for medication safety officers with the goal to provide an open forum for information sharing and collaboration. ASMSO was acquired by the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) in 2013 and was renamed the Medication Safety Officers Society (MSOS). Membership in MSOS is currently free to all interested parties who register.