Online Extras for A Guide to The Joint Commission's Medication Management Standards, Second Edition


Additional Resources:


Brigham and Women's Outside Vendor Audit Form
Outside pharmaceutical vendors must meet the standards outlined in BWH's policy and procedure audit checklist. (This form was cited on page 31 in Chapter 2. Brigham and Women's Hospital.)

Albany Medical Center: Example of Adult Critical Care Drug Guidelines

Adult critical care guidelines for epinephrine injection, eptifibatide, and esmolol are shown.  (AMC Children's Hospital Critical Care Drug Guidelines are shown on page 51 in Chapter 3. Albany Medical Center.)
 
Albany Medical Center: Children's Hospital Medication Order Policy
AMC's long-standing comprehensive medication use policy illustrates how Albany Medical Center uses standardization in medical ordering.

Albany Medical Center: AMC Dexmedetotimide Protocol for Use in Intensive Care Patients
This AMC dexmedetotimide protocol (cited on page 55) was developed for use in intensive care patients after success with a similar protocol used in the operating room/postanesthetic care unit.

New Criteria for Clozapine
Western State Hospital now follows its P&T committee's new criteria (replacing the criteria shown on page 130 in Chapter 7. Western State Hospital: Management of Three High-Alert Medications in the Psychiatric Setting) for eligibility of patients for patients diagnosed with treatment-resistant schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, or bipolar disorder.



Articles:

Psychiatric Polypharmacy: Identifying Risks and Seeking Solutions (From The Joint Commission Perspectives on Patient Safety, Vol. 8, Number 11, Nov. 2008)

Using Consumer-Based Kiosk Technology to Improve and Standardize Medication Reconciliation in a Specialty Care Setting (From The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety, Volume 35, Issue 5, May 2009)