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Medication Safety Self-Assessment in Alberta/Manitoba
January 2003: Groups of hospitals in Calgary, Edmonton and Winnipeg have expressed great interests in implementing the Medication Safety Self Assessment. Official booklets for the self assessment tool will be available through ISMP Canada. A special web site is now posted for the implementation which requires passwords to enter response and make submission. It should be noted that each question carries its own weight. Scores for the questions, core characteristics, and the elements will be made available to the users immediately after the responses are entered and submitted to ISMP Canada. For more details and enquiry about participating in the Medication Safety Self Assessment exercise, please contact info@ismp-canada.org, or call ISMP Canada at 416-480-5899.Participating hospitals can access the Medication Safety Self Assessment tool here.
Ontario Ministry of Health Project
August 2003: The one year data collection phase is now over. We have collected over 5100 error reports from study hospitals using the Analyze-ERR software. We would like to thank all who have participated in this project. Our next step is to re-evaluate the participants by conducting another Medication Safety Self-Assessment Survey and present our findings.
A side benefit of the project is the establishment of a web based medication error repository. Work is in progress to allow dissemination of the repository to users who have submitted data. Users will be able to perform searches and statistical analysis of the aggregate data. The system was demonstrated at the "Next Step for Ontario Hospitals" meeting held July 17,2003.
July 2002: A number of hospitals have started submitting medication error data to ISMP Canada. We have already received 386 reports. In the course of the next 10 months, it is anticipated that a very large pool of data will be collected and analyzed. This is the very first of a Canadian effort to collect medication error in a controlled manner. Indeed, it is also the first time that a common feeder system is used in any medication error studies to collect medication error data. All the participating Study hospitals who are submitting data have contributed tremendously to this important study.
May 2002: A total of 34 hospitals submitted the responses to the Medication Safety Self Assessment to ISMP Canada. Responses were weighted and scored. Hospitals were randomised to 17 Study hospitals and 17 Control hospitals. During the month of May, the first series of intervention workshops were implemented to four different locations in Ontario, providing safe medication practice tools and medication error reduction strategies to the Study hospitals. The weighted scores of the baseline self assessment will not be published until the follow up self assessment exercise is to be performed in early May of 2003.
February 2002: Phase 2 of the project is being completed. All 36 participating hospitals have completed the baseline Medication Safety Self Assessment exercise and are ready to enter their responses into the MSSA web page. Participating hospitals will be provided with a password to submit their responses and they will also receive weighted scores on both the core characteristics, elements and the overall assessment immediately. After the weighted scores have been generated, hospitals will be randomized (Block Stratified Randomization) into two matched groups: Intervention Group and Control Group. Participating hospitals will be notified of the randomization results at the end of February. Further update of the project will be provided at that time.
The Intervention project funded by Ontario Ministry of Health had its kick off information sessions at both Toronto and Kingston. There were over 30 hospitals attending and all have received the information package as well as the study proposal. All interested hospitals are expected to receive the Letter of Agreement by mid-July. The signed agreement should be returned to ISMP Canada by the second week of September.
