ISMP, FDA partner to launch abbreviation campaign
Executive Briefings Digest, February 21, 2006
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The Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will launch an educational campaign this spring to teach practitioners, medical schools, the pharmaceutical industry, and even FDA staff about the dangers of nine unapproved pharmaceutical abbreviations.
The move comes two years after the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations mandated that practitioners remove the nine medical abbreviations from their lexicon. The latest data available shows that these abbreviations caused 4% of the 235,159 errors reported to the US Pharmacopeia MEDMARX error database in 2003.
The ISMP and FDA will work with professional organizations and medical schools to distribute information via Web sites and e-mails. A fact sheet and brochure will publicize the dangers of using error-prone abbreviations.
Click here to download a PDF of the ISMP's error-prone abbreviations list.
Source: Hospital Pharmacy Regulation Report
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