ORGANIZATIONS

ORGANIZATIONS

1. FDA: Food and Drug Administration

   • Drug shortages
   • MedWatch
     • The FDA's Safety Information and Adverse Event Reporting Program
     • Provides an Online Voluntary Reporting Form to report serious adverse events for human medical products
   • Issues drug recalls
   • VAERS: Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System
   • FAERS: FDA Adverse Event Reporting System
     • aka AERS
   • GMP: Good Manufacturing Practice
     • Ensuring products are consistently produced and controlled according to quality standards
     • Assure proper design, monitoring, and control of manufacturing processes and facilities
   • USP: United States Pharmacopeal
     • Sets standards for the identity, strength, quality, and purity of medicines, food ingredients, and dietary supplements manufactured, distributed and consumed worldwide.
     • Developed the terminology associated with storage temperatures
   • Reviews investigational new drug application

2. ISMP: ISMP: Institute for Safe Medication Practices

   • Medmarx
     • A national database to reduce hospital medication errors
     • A national database to reduce hospital medication errors
     • Internet accessible database that hospitals and health care systems can use to prevent medication errors
   • MERP: Medication Errors Reporting Program
     • Medication error understanding
     • Medication error reporting
     • Medication error prevention
   • Implemented the error-prone abbreviation list

3. P&T: Pharmacy & Therapeutics

   • Develops a formulary for an institution

4. OSHA: Occupational Safety and Health Administration

   • Safety Data Sheet
     • aka SDS
     • Hazardous drugs and chemicals

5. NCPDP: Nation Council for Prescription Drug Programs

   • Established standards for e-prescribing
   • Creates national standards for electronic healthcare transactions used in prescribing, dispensing, monitoring, managing and paying for medications and pharmacy services.

6. ACPE: Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education

   • TJC: The Joint Commision
     • Accredits and certifies health care organizations and programs
       • ex. hospitals and long term care facilities
       • Has specific guidelines for each hospital department
     • Does not certify retail pharmacies
     • Requires that unit-dose be dispensed in a hospital
   • The national agency for the accreditation of professional degree programs in pharmacy and providers of continuing pharmacy education
   • ASHP: American Society of Health System Pharmacists
     • Association for pharmacists practicing in hospitals and other health care systems
     • Accredits residency programs for pharmacists and pharmacy technician training programs

7. DEA: Drug Enforcement Administration

   • Enforces the Controlled Substance Act
   • Authorizes reverse distributors
     • Permitted to handle the disposal of controlled substances
   • Assigns numbers to prescribers that is required on all controlled substance prescription
   • Created and supervised by the Department of Justice

8. NABP: National Association Boards of Pharmacy

   • Supports the state boards of pharmacy
     • BOP: Board of Pharmacy
       • Reports medication error
       • The state BOP is concerned with the practice of pharmacy in a particular state, which includes the behavior of pharmacists
       • The only organization that may discipline a pharmacy technician for inappropriate behavior
       • Licenses pharmacist in each state

9. CMS: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

   • Surveys and approves hospitals to provide care for Medicare and Medicaid patients

10. DPH: Department of Public Health

    • State organization overseeing hospitals, including the pharmacy department, to assure compliance with hospital practice standards