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A global network

International Medication Safety Network

Prescrire is a founding member of the International Medication Safety Network.
  • The International Medication Safety Network (IMSN), is an International Network of Safe Medication Practice Centres established with the aim of improving patient safety. This is achieved by operating medication error reporting programmes and producing guidance to minimise preventable harms from medicine use in practice.
     
  • Enacted by the "Salamanca Declaration to promote safe medication practices globally" in November 2006 under the former name of the International Network of Safe Medication Practice Centers (Insmpc), this network aims at promoting the cooperation between independent, multidisciplinary programmes for safe medication practices. The purpose of the Network is mainly to encourage and further the development of independent medication error reporting programmes and safe medication practices centres globally; and to promote international exchange of good-quality information concerning safe medication practices.
    > Download the Salamanca Declaration of 19 November 2006

  • This international network aims to promote and to strengthen the cooperation between independent, multidisciplinary programmes for information gathering and for prevention of medication errors.
     
  • At its last meeting in October 2016 in Toronto, the IMSN initiated an in-depth discussion with several agencies and firms, notably North American and European, on the evaluation and prevention of risks of medication errors.
    > Read the IMSN press release
     
  • The IMSN website summarises all of its collective public actions, mostly Position Statements and Guidelines for medicines agencies, health authorities, global organisations and companies. It also offers an international documentary watch on medication error thanks to the continuous updating of the newsletters and alerts published by its members on their own websites.
    > IMSN website

  • As a founding member and member of the Executive Committee of the IMSN, Prescrire actively participates through its programme "Éviter l'Évitable" ("Preventing the Preventable").
     

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