Strategies to Reduce Errors Associated with 2-Component Vaccines.

The high incidence of error reports received by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) involving 2-component vaccines led to collaboration between the United States Pharmacopeia (USP) and the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP). This collaborating group sought to further understand errors associated with all 2-component vaccines (i.e. vaccine components provided by the manufacturer in physically separate containers) and to provide safe practice strategies for storing, preparing, dispensing, and administering these vaccines as intended. Fourteen available 2-component vaccines were identified. The ISMP National Vaccine Errors Reporting Program (VERP) and the FDA Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) were searched from the initiation of each respective reporting system through December 31, 2019. The three vaccines with the most reported reconstitution errors in the VERP and VAERS are Menveo