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Three new best practices in the 2022-2023 Targeted Medication Safety Best Practices for Hospitals.
February 23, 2022
ISMP Medication Safety Alert! Acute care edition. February 10, 2022:27(3):1-6.
Best practices evolve over time, given experience and evidence associated with their use. This article summarizes 3 new areas of focus included in current recommendations for sustaining medication safety. The new practices focus on improving the safety of oxytocin use, enhancing vaccine administration through bar coding, and implementing multifocal efforts to reduce high-alert medication errors. A survey accompanies the article to gather data on the presence of the new recommendations in the field.
