2013 Summer Meeting
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Strategies for Improving Medication Safety: A National Perspective from ISMP
Track:
Education Sessions (CE)
Program Code: 114-L05
Date: Sunday, June 2, 2013
Time: 2:45 PM to 4:45 PM EST
Location:
200 D, Level 2
PRESENTER(S):
Michael Cohen
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Darryl S. Rich currently is a part-time Surveyor for The Joint Commission in the hospital, home care, and ambulatory accreditation programs. He also works as part of the Joint Commission’s Standards Interpretation Group, serving as an internal resource on pharmacy and medication management issues. He has been with the Joint Commission for over 15 years.
Darryl received his Doctor of Pharmacy degree (Pharm.D.) from the University of California at San Francisco, and a M.B.A. in Health Care Management from Bryant University in Rhode Island.
He also completed an ASHP accredited residency in hospital pharmacy from Rhode Island Hospital. Prior to coming to the Joint Commission, Darryl was Director of Pharmacy Services at Boston University Medical Center and Clinical Assistant Professor of Pharmacy at Northeastern University. He also served as National Director of Pharmacy Services for Critical Care America, Inc., a national home infusion company.
He is active member and Fellow in the American Society of Health System Pharmacists and a past President of the New England Council of Health-System Pharmacists. He has received numerous awards including the 2000 Cheers award by the Institute for Safe Medication Practices, and received a Certificate of Appreciation from the Board of ASHP in 2004 for his work in medication safety at the Joint Commission.
Darryl has over 525 invited professional presentations and 75 publications in refereed journals, including 8 books and 4 video series. He resides in Roseville, California, a suburb of Sacramento.
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Darryl S. Rich currently is a part-time Surveyor for The Joint Commission in the hospital, home care, and ambulatory accreditation programs. He also works as part of the Joint Commission’s Standards Interpretation Group, serving as an internal resource on pharmacy and medication management issues. He has been with the Joint Commission for over 15 years.
Darryl received his Doctor of Pharmacy degree (Pharm.D.) from the University of California at San Francisco, and a M.B.A. in Health Care Management from Bryant University in Rhode Island.
He also completed an ASHP accredited residency in hospital pharmacy from Rhode Island Hospital. Prior to coming to the Joint Commission, Darryl was Director of Pharmacy Services at Boston University Medical Center and Clinical Assistant Professor of Pharmacy at Northeastern University. He also served as National Director of Pharmacy Services for Critical Care America, Inc., a national home infusion company.
He is active member and Fellow in the American Society of Health System Pharmacists and a past President of the New England Council of Health-System Pharmacists. He has received numerous awards including the 2000 Cheers award by the Institute for Safe Medication Practices, and received a Certificate of Appreciation from the Board of ASHP in 2004 for his work in medication safety at the Joint Commission.
Darryl has over 525 invited professional presentations and 75 publications in refereed journals, including 8 books and 4 video series. He resides in Roseville, California, a suburb of Sacramento.
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Description
Although medication safety has improved since 2000, patients continue to be harmed by medication errors. Hospital pharmacists are often not aware of many of the at-risk behaviors they engage in heighten the potential for medication errors, and many actions to reduce efforts often are minimally effective. This session, planned in cooperation with the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP), is designed to use ISMP’s national medication error reporting database to improve medication safety in hospitals by discussing the top 10 most-reported medication safety issues in the past year with practical recommended strategies to mitigate these errors. Additional focus will be given to strategies to improve medication error reporting within hospitals, and how to use this data to reduce prevalent errors.
- Cite at least one website with guidelines that can improve medication safety.
- Describe the top three reasons why hospital-based error reporting programs are not effective in reducing errors.
- Develop a strategy to improve the effectiveness and value of medication error reporting in your hospital or health system.
- List the top three medication safety issues reported to ISMP in the past year with one successful practice to mitigate the error potential for each.
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