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International Medication Safety Network (IMSN)

The International Medication Safety Network (IMSN) is an international network involving the main programmes for safe medication practices, the aims of which are to prevent medication errors and contribute to safer healthcare.

Established by the "Salamanca Declaration to promote safe medication practices globally" in November 2006, this specific network aims at promoting and reinforcing cooperation between independent, multidisciplinary programmes for safe medication practices.

Methotrexate: room for improvement in packaging and patient information (5/2018)
Drug therapy and medication safety for older people clearly require more attention (1/2018)
French drug agency's recommendations on packaging labelling: a welcome first step, to be optimised (11/2017)
French drug agency's recommendations on dosing devices: a step forward (9/2017 )
Proposed recommendations on drug brand names by France's Health Products Agency maintain dangerous confusion (12/2016)
Is there a need for insulin at 200 units per ml? Why use a new and poorly established analogue? (12/2012)
Safety and usability of packaging and labelling: assessment prior to marketing authorisation for all medicinal products (11/2012)
Packaging of medicines for paediatric use: Prescrire's response to EMA (12/2011)
Packaging for non-prescription medicines: Prescrire's response to EMA (6/2011)
2020 Drug Packaging Awards
2019 Drug Packaging Awards
2018 Prescrire Packaging Awards
2017 Prescrire Packaging Awards
2016 Packaging Awards
2015 Packaging Awards
2014 Packaging Awards
2013 Packaging Awards
2012 Packaging Awards
2011 Packaging Awards
2010 Packaging Awards
In brief
IMSN Position Statements
IMSN Global Regulatory Meeting: Designing medication safety at the global level, Toronto (October 2016)
Actions
IMSN Satellite conference on safer naming, labelling and packaging of Medicines, Paris (October 2013)
Patient safety in Europe (IMSN, 5/2008)
Prescrire Packaging Awards
Annual drug packaging review
Prescrire's Packaging Working Group
About IMSN
International Medication Safety Network (IMSN)
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