Experience With A National Medication Error Reporting Program
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error or hazard to ISMP. If you are a CONSUMER, please click on the orange button below if you are ready to report an error or hazard. If you are a HEALTHCARE PRACTITIONER, national coordinating council for medication error reporting and prevention you can report the error or hazard to ISMP using one of two secure methods: national coordinating council for medication error reporting and prevention (ncc merp) 1) Report to the ISMP National Medication Errors Reporting Program (MERP) or the ISMP National Vaccine Errors Reporting Program (VERP) These are national coordinating council for medication error reporting and prevention index confidential, voluntary reporting programs operated by ISMP to learn about the causes of medication and vaccine errors. After you submit a report, ISMP staff will follow up with you to ask additional questions to clarify what went medication error reporting form wrong and to identify the causes and factors that contributed to the reported event. The report will also be forwarded in confidence to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and, when applicable, to product vendors to inform them about pharmaceutical labeling, packaging, and nomenclature issues that may cause errors by their design. Your name, contact information, and location will NOT be submitted to FDA or product vendors without your permission, and identifiable information
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will NOT be disclosed outside of ISMP. Click on the appropriate button below if you are ready to report an error or hazard to the ISMP MERP or ISMP VERP. Click here to learn more about ISMP reporting programs. 2) Report an adverse event to ISMP as a Patient Safety Organization (PSO) You may prefer to report an adverse medication or vaccine event to ISMP as a federally certified Patient Safety Organization (PSO). As a PSO, federal legal protection can be provided for certain patient safety information prepared within your patient safety evaluation system and submitted to ISMP. The protected information, called patient safety work product, includes information you provide about why the error happened or why the hazard exists, along with any further analysis of the event provided back to you by ISMP. The basic facts, whether written or observed, regarding what happened along with the patient’s medical/health records, are NOT considered patient safety work product and cannot be provided with federal protection in the event of a lawsuit. However, contextually identifiable information will NOT be disclosed outside ISMP unless we are legally compelled to do so. Click on the appropriate button below if you are ready to report an event to ISMP as a PSO. Click here to learn more about reporting an adverse event
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Medication Errors Reporting Program (MERP) 1-800-233-7767 U.S. medication error reporting in nursing homes identifying targets for patient safety improvement Food and Drug Administration's MedWatch Reporting Program 1-800-FDA-1088 NAN Alert medication error reporting categories The National Alert Network (NAN) publishes the alerts from the National Medication Errors Reporting Program. NAN https://www.ismp.org/orderforms/reporterrortoismp.asp encourages the sharing and reporting of medication errors, so that lessons learned can be used to increase the safety of the medication use system. September 15, 2016 Observe for possible fluid leakage when preparing http://www.nccmerp.org/report-medication-errors parenteral syringes Subscribe Archive Popular links Definition Taxonomy Dangerous Abbreviations Upcoming Meetings There is no meeting avaiable. Previous Meetings Report Medication ErrorsISMP Medication Errors Reporting Program (MERP) Go U.S. Food and Drug Administration's MedWatch Reporting Program © 2016 National Coordinating Council for Medication Error Reporting and Prevention. All Rights Reserved. *Permission is hereby granted to reproduce information contained herein provided that such reproduction shall not modify the text and shall include the copyright notice appearing on the pages from which it was copied. This copyright statement will change to the new year after the 1st of every year.
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