Saturday, December 8, 2012

ISMP Website for Consumer Medication Safety

A recent email with the November issue of NurseAdvice-Err, an ISMP (Institute for Safe Mediation Practice) publication, had great information.  Many of the preventable hospital readmissions relate to health literacy and medication errors caused by patients who don't understand enough about what, how, and when to take medications.  Of course, it is more complicated than that.  The health literacy issue also relates to drug and food interactions.

The ISMP has developed a website, ConsumerMedSafety, at http://www.consumermedsafety.org/ to assist consumers to stay safe when taking medications.

There is consumer information on eleven high-alert medications at http://www.consumermedsafety.org/tools-and-resources/medication-safety-tools-and-resources

The medications are:

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