Industry Safety
Health Care Safety
Medication Safety

Advice on how to use abbreviations appropriately

Hazardous drug safety guidelines

Hazard control guidance

Guidance on OSHA standards related to hazardous drugs and cytotoxic drugs

Common medication errors due to abbreviations

JCAHO's dangerous abbreviations requirements

Do not use these dangerous abbreviations or dose designations

News and reference materials related to drug and medical device safety

Pharmaceutical information for patients including Over-the-counter (OTC)

Health care professionals often report confusion between similar brand and generic names

FDA Adverse Event Reporting Program

Information on controlling the hazards associated with hazardous medications

Adverse drug interactions represent one of the most important challenges facing medical professionals

Provides education & alerts about adverse drug events and their prevention

The USP Medication Errors Reporting Program has implemented this index for use in the USP database

To use when considering how best to proceed in choosing and applying a variety of technological solutions

Consumer information on the proper use of nonprescription & prescription medicines

AHSP Center on Patient Safety

A series of articles on the topic

Safety information related to over-the-counter (OTC) medicines

Environmental compliance assistance for the pharmaceuticals industry

Focuses on the most serious or documented interactions

Errors regarding the use of a refrigerator to store medications

Guidelines for any setting where hazardous drugs are prepared - pharmacies, clinics, home health

Discusses several practices that can be effective in preventing medication errors

Patient safety tools related to medication errors

Medication error alert advice from the USP

FDA program for vaccine safety

Issues of interest such as side effects, additives, etc