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Med Safety Exchange

Join your colleagues across Canada for complimentary 50-minute webinars to share, learn and discuss incident reports, trends and emerging issues in medication safety!

Suggested Audience:
Consumers, Health Care Providers

Definitions of Terms

This glossary provides definitions for a minimum number of terms that are considered essential to the discussion of Medication Incidents in the context of a Canadian medication incident reporting and prevention system today. Revisiting the selected definitions will be required periodically to align with national and international patient safety initiatives as they develop.

Suggested Audience:
Consumers, Health Care Providers

Do Not Use List

ISMP Canada, Accreditation Canada, and the Canadian Patient Safety Institute (now Healthcare Excellence Canada) collaborate with organizations to eliminate the use of dangerous abbreviations, symbols and dose designations in health care to improve the safety of Canadian patients.

Suggested Audience:
Health Care Providers

Canadian Pharmaceutical Bar Coding Project

In an effort to increase medication safety, members of the healthcare industry are collaborating to implement standardized bar codes on pharmaceutical products which have been approved for use in Canada. Headed jointly by the Institute for Safe Medication Practices Canada (ISMP Canada) and the Canadian Patient Safety Institute (CPSI), this national initiative was guided by an advisory Implementation Committee with technical requirements developed with assistance from a Technical Task Force (TTF), representing six identified healthcare sectors.

Suggested Audience:
Health Care Providers