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
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
P&T: Pharmacy & Therapeutics
Develops a formulary for an institution
OSHA: Occupational Safety and Health Administration
Safety Data Sheet
aka SDS
Hazardous drugs and chemicals
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.
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
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
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
CMS: Centers for Medicare
and Medicaid Services
Surveys and approves
hospitals to provide care for
Medicare and Medicaid
patients
DPH: Department of Public Health
State organization overseeing hospitals,
including the pharmacy department, to
assure compliance with hospital practice
standards