ISMP Disclosure Statements

The Consumermedsafety website does not accept advertising. The website is completely funded by our organization, the Institute for Safe Medication Practices. The Institute is a nonprofit agency (public charity as approved by our federal government, Internal Revenue Service). The US government, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, has certified us as a Patient Safety Organization. The Institute is funded through charitable donations, research grants, operations including educational programs, patient safety consulting, guideline development and publications. The Institute operates the national Medication Error Reporting Program (ISMP MERP). Full information can be found on the ISMP Website. Please also see information about ISMP and ISMP's charitable activities.

ISMP is certified by The US government, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, as a Patient Safety Organization: http://www.pso.ahrq.gov/listing/alphalist3.htm#P0009

The majority of the material provided on our website, is original, written by the ISMP staff. Content is developed from

• Reports submitted to the Medication Error Reporting Program (MERP) by practitioners and consumers with research by our editorial staff to confirm and validate.
• Shared work from our newsletter publications, including the ISMP Medication Safety Alert! For acute care hospitals, a consumer newsletter, a community pharmacy/medicine newsletter and a nursing newsletter.  Together the readership exceeds 2 million. More information about our publication can be seen at: http://www.ismp.org/Newsletters/default.asp
• Independent articles developed, produced and edited entirely for consumermedsafety by ISMP staff.
• Some information, as noted on the website, is shared with us by the US Food and Drug Administration.
• Occasionally, consumermedsafety will make mention of an article from which the topic is derived. In all cases we include the source material.

This website does not host any form of advertisement.