April 21, 2009: Community Pharmacy Medication Safety Assessment Program
The Medication Safety Self-Assessment® (MSSA) for Community/Ambulatory Pharmacy was developed to guide individual community pharmacies in identifying opportunities for medication safety enhancements. The self-assessment criteria in the program are related to potential system improvements that have been identified through analysis of medication incidents. Our collective challenge is to translate that knowledge into practice, and the MSSA for Community/Ambulatory Pharmacy is one way to do so.Several provinces in Canada are supporting use of this program as a component of quality improvement initiatives. The program’s web-based interface allows an individual pharmacy to compare its results with the aggregate results of other respondents, both regionally and nationally, and also encourages evaluation of improvement efforts over time.
For more information about the MSSA program for community pharmacy practice, please contact us by email: mssa@ismp-canada.org or by telephone: 1-866-544-7672.
