Guidelines / Best Practices

Medication Errors Associated with Verbal Medication Orders and Prescriptions
Recommendations to Reduce Medication Errors Associated with
Verbal Medication Orders and Prescriptions
ASHP Best Practices Self-Assessment Tool
1.0 Develop and Maintain the Systems to Provide Pharmacy Services
2.0 Develop Medication-Use Policy
3.0 Purchase and Maintain the Availability of Pharmaceutical Products
4.0 Optimize Medication Therapy
5.0 Prepare, Package, and Label Medications
6.0 Dispense and Deliver Medications
7.0 Control Medications Outside the Pharmacy
8.0 Monitor Medication Use
9.0 Evaluate the Delivery of Pharmacy Services

ISMP Medication Safety Self Assessment for AntithromboticTherapy in Hospitals
Establish a multidisciplinary team.
Assess organization’s use of antithrombotic agents
Confidentially submit your data to ISMP
Document your progress

ISMP Medication Safety Self Assessment
This tool will help you assess the safety of medication practices in your facility, identify opportunities for improvement, and compare your experiences with the aggregate experiences of demographically similar hospitals.

AAP Policy Statement - Prevention of Medication Errors in the Pediatric Inpatient setting

Makes specific recommendation for various focus areas within a hospital

Prevention of Medication Errors in the Pediatric Inpatient Setting - AAP
Providing drug treatment in the hospital setting requires that a series of actions be performed correctly by several members of the health care team, such as the physician, the unit clerk, the hospital pharmacist, and the nurse. Errors are possible at any step of the process, from medication selection and ordering, to order transcription, to drug formulation,to drug dispensing, to drug administration. For adults, the reported incidence of errors in treatment with medications ranges from 1% to 30% of all hospital admissions,8 or 5% of orders written. In pediatrics, however, this number has been reported to be as high as 1 in 6.4 orders.