MSOS News

March 2023 Member Briefing
Post date: 1 week 4 days ago

Sign up now for the next MSOS Member Briefing webinar scheduled to be held on Thursday, March 23, 2023 from 1:00-2:00 PM ET.
Register Now: https://ecri.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_kuByH0aqRk2vcgNHFQiU8w

Short medication safety-related presentations for this webinar will include:

• Near Miss Reporting Leads to a Positive Change
Shannon Manzi, PharmD, BCPPS, FPPA
Director, Safety & Quality, Department of Pharmacy
Faculty, Applied Informatics, Computational Health Informatics Program
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
Boston Children’s Hospital

• Making Smarter Alerts for “Smart” Infusion Pumps
Stephen Andrews, PharmD, BCPS, CPPS
Drug Information Specialist
University of Utah Health

Part I in Article Series on Diversion
Post date: 3 weeks 4 days ago

This week’s featured newsletter article is the first in a two-part series on how controlled substance drug diversion is a threat to patient safety, and ways to implement a proactive approach to prevention: https://www.ismp.org/node/64547

January Member Briefing
Post date: 2 months 1 day ago

Sign up now for the next MSOS Member Briefing webinar scheduled to be held on Thursday, January 26, 2023 from 1:00-2:00 PM ET.
Register Now: https://ecri.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Loxe9LQVSXqXesV-X9yfGA

Short medication safety-related presentations for this webinar will include:

• Baclofen accumulation in acute kidney injury
Jacqueline Hartford, PharmD, BCPS, BCCCP, Medication Safety Officer, Sinai Hospital-Grace Medical Center-Northwest Hospital- Levindale, Lifebridge Health

•Updating the look- and sound-alike institutional list
Mona Hammam, PharmD, MS, BCPS, FISMP, Medication Safety Officer, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

•Closing the loop: Standardizing medication event feedback
Heather Ellis, PharmD, Medication Safety Coordinator, AdventHealth

Preventing Latent and Active Failures
Post date: 2 months 1 week ago

This week’s free newsletter article describes how a series of latent and active failures involving IV bags in an automated dispensing cabinet perfectly aligned to allow a preventable adverse event to reach a patient: https://www.ismp.org/node/57727

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The mission of the Medication Safety Officers Society (MSOS) is to advance and encourage excellence in safe medication use by providing communication, leadership, direction, and education among its members.