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The mission of ASMSO is to advance and encourage excellence in safe medication use by providing communication, leadership, direction, and education among its members.
Institute for Healthcare Improvement
Joint Commission
- The Joint Commission to Launch Primary Care Home Option in 2011
- Joint Commission Appoints Alex Vandiver as Director of Business Excellence
- Joint Commission Publishes New Guide for Advancing Patient-Centered Care
- Joint Commission Urges Americans to ‘Speak Up’ to Prevent Falls
- Joint Commission Alert: Violence Rising at Health Care Facilities
FDA MedWatch
- AngioSculpt "EX" PTCA Scoring Balloon Catheter by AngioScore, Inc.: Recall - Risk of Catheter Separation
- Tygacil (tigecycline): Label Change - Increased Mortality Risk
- Huber Needles: Recall - Risk of Coring
- Fingerstick Devices to Obtain Blood Specimens: Initial Communication - Risk of Transmitting Bloodborne Pathogens
- TimeOut Capsules: Undeclared Drug Ingredient
FDA Patient Safety News
- New Medical Products: First Test to Detect Both HIV Antigen and Antibodies
- Recalls and Safety Alerts: FDA Requirements for Colleague Infusion Pump Recall
- Recalls and Safety Alerts: Air/Gas Embolisms with Pressurized Spray Devices
- Recalls and Safety Alerts: Expanded Recall of Hospira Liposyn and Propofol
- Recalls and Safety Alerts: Recall of Certain LIFEPAK Defibrillators
Our Partners
Journal on Quality and Patient Safety
- Improving and Sustaining Core Measure Performance Through Effective Accountability of Clinical Microsystems in an Academic Medical Center
- The Elephant of Patient Safety: What You See Depends on How You Look
- Integrating Incident Data from Five Reporting Systems to Assess Patient Safety: Making Sense of the Elephant
- A Comparison of Methods to Detect Urinary Tract Infections Using Electronic Data
- Back to Basics: Four Years of Sustained Improvement in Implementation of Contact Precautions at a University Hospital
Journal for Healthcare Quality
- Using Technology to Enhance the Quality of Home Health Care: Three Case Studies of Health Information Technology Initiatives at the Visiting Nurse Service of New York
- Door-to-Balloon Time: Performance Improvement in the Multidisciplinary Treatment of Myocardial Infarction
- Because One Is Too Many: Catholic Health Initiatives' Success in Reducing Preventable Birth Injuries
- Lean Methodology: Supporting Battlefield Medical Fitness by Cutting Process Waste
- Benchmarking for Small Hospitals: Size Didn't Matter!
Quality and Safety in Health Care Journal
- Quality improvement in community health centres: the role of microsystem characteristics in the implementation of a diabetes prevention initiative
- A baseline study of anticoagulant management in UK hospitals
- The quality, safety and content of telephone and face-to-face consultations: a comparative study
- Interruptions and distractions in healthcare: review and reappraisal
- Organisational readiness: exploring the preconditions for success in organisation-wide patient safety improvement programmes
American Society of Medication Safety Officers
200 Lakeside Drive, Suite 200, Horsham, PA 19044
Phone: (508) 499-3043, Fax: (215) 914-1492