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Institute for Safe Medication Practices.
Medication Safety Alert! Acute care edition. January 27, 2022;27(2):1-6.
Cohen M, Degnan D, McDonnell P, eds. Patient Saf. 2022;4(s1):1-45
Institute for Safe Medication Practices. Medication Safety Alerts. January 3, 2022.
This piece discusses the critical role community pharmacists play in ensuring medication safety.
Georgia Galanou Luchen, Pharm. D., is the Director of Member Relations at the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP). In this role, she leads initiatives related to community pharmacy practitioners and their impact throughout the care continuum. We spoke with her about different types of community pharmacists and the role they play in ensuring patient safety.
ISMP Medication Safety Alert! Acute care edition. October 7, 2021;26(20):1-4.
Institute for Safe Medication Practices. October 26, 2021.
This commentary presents two cases highlighting common medication errors in retail pharmacy settings and discusses the importance of mandatory counseling for new medications, use of standardized error reporting processes, and the role of clinical decision support systems (CDSS) in medical decision-making and ensuring medication safety.