Drug Safety Tools and Resources for Providers

NEW! Institute for Safe Medication Practices: A Nonprofit Organization Educating the Healthcare Community and Consumers About Safe Medication Practices

My Adult Meducation - A website created by the American Society on Aging and American Society of Consultant Pharmacists Foundation, outlining the importance of improving medication adherence in older adults.

Patient Safety Tools:
Improving Safety at the Point of Care

These toolkits are designed to help health care institutions and clinicians provide—and consumers receive—safe, quality health care at various points in the health care process—in the hospital, in the emergency department, in the intensive care unit, in the pharmacy, and when being discharged from one setting to another.

These 17 toolkits were produced under AHRQ's Partnerships in Implementing Patient Safety (PIPS) grant program, The projects have produced a variety of evidence-based tools, including training materials, medication guides and checklists, that are easily adapted to other institutions and care settings. The tools were developed in the field and are designed to be implemented by multidisciplinary users.

American Geriatric Society Clinical Practice Guideline:
Pharmacological Management of Persistent Pain in Older Persons

Pharmacy Health Literacy Assessment Tool User's Guide

Introduction to the Universal Medication Form

Universal Medication Form - keep track of patient's medications

Click here for technical specifications for the DDI and PIM medication measures.

Beer's list for all providers

Flockhardt List for all providers

Fleetwood Toolkit provides information about the ASCP Foundation’s Fleetwood Project research initiative, including intervention tools and reprints of relevant articles

Medication Safety Reconciliation Toolkit

Adult Meducation is the result of a nine-month joint project to produce a resource for medical and nonmedical professionals in the field of aging who practice in home, community-based
and institutional settings and who rarely have formal training in geriatric pharmacotherapy.

Preventing Medication Errors: Quality Chasm Series Report
Brief and Fact Sheet

Decreasing Anticholinergic Drugs in the Elderly (DADE) Project, conducted by IPRO, the QIO for New York

Updating the Beers Criteria for Potentially Inappropriate Medication Use in Older Adults

Potentially inappropriate medication use in hospitalized older adults: A DUE using the full Beers criteria (PIM)

Protecting U.S. Citizens from Inappropriate Medication Use (PIM)

Drug Interaction Checker (DDI)

IHI Trigger Tool for measuring Adverse Drug Effects (DDI)

FDA Drug Safety Alerts

FDA Drug Safety Topics

Medication Use in the Elderly Population
(from the California Pharmacist's Assocaition Journal)

Potentially Inappropriate Medications for Older Adults: 65 and Older

Evidence for the Effectiveness of Techniques to Change Physician Behavior

Medicare Prescription Drug Data Development:
Methods for Improving Patient Safety and Pharmacovigilance Using Observational Data

Tools to Build a Community Pharmacy Medication Safety Program

Patient Education Brochure: a patient education brochure on the safe use of medicines developed by the Institute for Safe Medications Practice

Medicine Safety Education--A resource for healthcare providers and patients

Medication Therapy Management Core Elements (.pdf)

Medication Therapy Management brochures (free!)

Medication Risk Posters - download these consumer education posters (.pdf format) to hang in your office (free!)
Small (8.5 x 11)
Large (11 x 17)