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Strengthening Medication Safety in Long-Term Care

The Ministry of Long-Term Care (MLTC) in Ontario is partnering with ISMP Canada to support long-term care homes in strengthening medication safety.

Suggested Audience:
Consumers, Health Care Providers

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.

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Consumers, Health Care Providers

5 Questions to Ask About Your Medications

Patients are at high risk of fragmented care, adverse drug events, and medication errors during transitions of care. Ensuring safe medication transitions is complex. It requires patients to be an active partner in their health to ensure that they have the information they need to use their medications safely.

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Consumers, Health Care Providers

Medication Incident and Near Miss Reporting Programs

Share your story about medication safety so that we can collect, aggregate, and analyze these lived experiences for sharing and action.

Suggested Audience:
Consumers, Health Care Providers

Trailblazer Homes

In 2022-2023, ISMP Canada was pleased to support 60 Trailblazer Homes with tools, facilitation, and coaching to improve medication safety.

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Consumers, Health Care Providers

Virtual Primary Care

ISMP Canada and Healthcare Excellence Canada (HEC) collaborated with patients and prescribers to advance medication safety in virtual primary care. The project team used a multi-pronged approach: a review of the literature; an analysis of medication error reports associated with virtual care and a co-design event.

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Consumers, Health Care Providers

World Patient Safety Day 2022

ISMP Canada is pleased to collaborate with the World Health Organization (WHO) on developing and implementing the Medication Without Harm Global Patient Safety Challenge. World Patient Safety Day 2022 (WPSD 2022) provides an important opportunity locally, provincially, nationally, and globally to raise awareness, engagement, empowerment, and action for improving medication safety!

Join us in acknowledging this important day and advancing medication safety across Canada.

Information includes:
- Invitation to the Med Safety Exchange Webinar on WPSD 2022, September 15
- Resources for engaging in the day and sharing the information with others

Suggested Audience:
Consumers, Health Care Providers

High-Alert Medications

High-alert medications are medications that bear a heightened risk of causing significant harm when they are used in error.
This list is intended to assist care organizations in developing their own, organization-specific high-alert medication list.

Suggested Audience:
Consumers, Health Care Providers

Hierarchy of Effectiveness

The reporting, investigation, and analysis of medication incidents are important elements in improving patient safety, and these efforts must be accompanied by effective strategies that address the contributing factors or vulnerabilities leading to the incidents.

Certain types of risk-mitigation strategies are known to be more effective than others, as illustrated by the Hierarchy of Effectiveness.

Suggested Audience:
Consumers, Health Care Providers

Canadian Medication Safety Network

The Canadian Medication Safety Network raises the voice of consumers and health care providers about medication safety issues as well as opportunities for improvement!

Suggested Audience:
Consumers, Health Care Providers

Innovator Homes

**NEW** Opportunity – Become an Innovator Home!
ISMP Canada is pleased to launch and support up to 100 Innovator Homes with the tools, facilitation, and coaching that have successfully supported the great medication safety work of the Champion and Trailblazer Homes.

Interested in making a commitment at your home for improving medication safety by joining a provincial collaborative to learn and test improvements with the help of experts?

Suggested Audience:
Consumers, Health Care Providers

Best Possible Medication History Interview Guide

ISMP Canada and GeriMedRisk have partnered to update the Best Possible Medication History (BPMH) Interview Guide. The Guide is intended to help health care providers complete a BPMH, in collaboration with the client and/or care partners.

Suggested Audience:
Consumers, Health Care Providers

TEST – Strengthening Medication Safety in Long-Term Care

The Ministry of Long-Term Care (MLTC) in Ontario is partnering with ISMP Canada to support long-term care homes in strengthening medication safety.

Suggested Audience:
Consumers, Health Care Providers