February 23, 2010: Risk Assessment Program for Medication System Safety in Community Pharmacy
The Medication Safety Self-Assessment (MSSA) for Community/Ambulatory Pharmacy was developed to assist and guide individual community pharmacies in dentifying opportunities to improve their medication-use systems. The program’s self-assessment criteria are related to potential system improvements that have been identified through analysis of medication incidents. Completion of this MSSA can be an important element of a community pharmacy’s quality improvement initiatives.The program’s web-based interface allows individual community pharmacies to compare their own results over time, thereby tracking the impact of any changes made, as well as to compare their results with the aggregate results of other participants in the program, both regionally and nationally. Several Canadian provinces have supported the use of this program as a component of quality improvement. The program is also available at a reasonable cost to individual community pharmacies.
For more information about the MSSA program for community pharmacy, please contact ISMP Canada by email: mssa@ismp-canada.org or by telephone: 1-866-544-7672.
