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20 Tips to Help Prevent Medical Errors in Children

This fact sheet offers 20 tips on how to prevent medical errors in children. The tip sheet provides evidence-based, practical tips on how to avoid medical errors related to prescription medicines, sur... Details >

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

20 Tips to Help Prevent Medical Errors: Patient Fact Sheet

Also available in: Spanish 

This consumer information fact sheet explains what medical errors are and what you can do to prevent medical errors from occurring in your own health care.... Details >

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Getting Safer Care

AHRQ offers consumers information, videos, and podcasts on how to prevent errors, get quality care, and use hospitals & clinics.... Details >

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Make Notes & Take Notes to Avoid Medication Errors - (PDF)  External Link

Before, during and after a visit with your doctor, this sheet will provide steps to help you avoid making medication errors.... Details >

National Council on Patient Information and Education  External Link

Medical Errors: Tips to Help Prevent Them  External Link

Learn how you can help to prevent medical errors by taking part in every decision about your health care.... Details >

American Academy of Family Physicians  External Link

MedWatch, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Medical Products Reporting Program

Your FDA gateway for finding clinically important safety information and reporting serious problems with human medical products.... Details >

Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, U.S. Food and Drug Administration

MedWatch: Report a Serious Medical Product Problem Online

Use the Medwatch online form to report serious adverse events, potential and actual medical product errors, and product quality problems associated with the use of FDA-regulated drugs, biologics, devi... Details >

Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, U.S. Food and Drug Administration

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