Medication Errors

• Canadian Patient Safety Institute
• Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP)
• Institute for Safe Medication Practices Canada (ISMP Canada)
• Massachusetts Coalition for the Prevention of Medical Errors
• Medication Errors (U.S. Food and Drug Administration)
• MedWatch (U.S. Food and Drug Administration)
• National Coordinating Council for Medication Error Reporting and Prevention (NCC MERP)
• National Patient Safety Foundation
• National System for Incident Reporting (NSIR) (Canadian Institute for Health Information)
• Patient Safety (Health Canada)
• Patient Safety (Medscape, registration required)
• Patient Safety Resources (NHS National Patient Safety Agency).
• SafeMedicationUse.ca (ISMP Canada).
• Safety in Doses (NHS National Patient Safety Agency)
• Sentinel Event Alert Newsletter (The Joint Commission).
• Top 10 Tips for GPs - Strategies for Safer Prescribing (National Prescribing Centre - NHS)

• British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, June 2009 issue devoted to Medication Errors

*Recommended texts are linked to publishers' or book sellers' websites for further ordering information

• Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century (Institute of Medicine, 2001).
• Envisioning the National Health Care Quality Report (Institute of Medicine, 2001)
• Error Reduction in Health Care: A Systems Approach to  Improving Patient Safety (Spath, 2nd ed. 2011) - $
• Guidebook for Professionals: Partnering with Patients to Reduce Medical Errors (Spath, 2004) - $
•  Learning from Medical Errors: Clinical Problems (Nguyen, 2005) - $
• Lippincott Guide to Preventing Medication Errors (Karch, 2002) - $
• Medication Errors (Cohen, 2nd ed. 2006) - $
• Medication Errors Guidebook (Young et al. 2005) - $
• Medication Errors: Lessons for Education and Healthcare (Naylor, 2002) - $
• Preparing to Meet Joint Commission Patient Safety Goals(Coe/ASHP, 2004) - $
•  Preventing Medication Errors: Quality Chasm Series (Institute of Medicine, 2007)
• Preventing Medication Errors and Improving Drug Therapy Outcomes: A Management Systems Approach (Hepler & Segal, 2003) - $
• Preventing Medication Errors: Expert Nurse Video Series (2000) - $
• Safe Medication Practices: A Resource for Physicians (Canadian Medical Association - 2002) - $
• To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System (Institute of Medicine, 2000)