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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
    FAQ - About Medication Errors
    Answers to the frequently asked questions about medication errors with links to other sites and more detailed information that may be of help. details...
    Institute for Safe Medication Practices
    Improving Health Care Quality: A Guide for Patients and Families
    Also available in: Spanish
    Practical tips on what people can do to improve the quality of the health care services they receive, including how to avoid medical errors. This guide focuses on the key health care choices people ty details...
    Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    Improving Medication Safety
    The information on this web site is intended to help hospitals and other health care systems to improve patient safety by reducing medication errors. Users can find useful resources – references and  details...
    American Hospital Association
    Medical Errors & Patient Safety
    Following a report by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) estimating that up to 98,000 Americans die each year as a result of preventable medical errors, President Clinton directed the Quality Interagency details...
    Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    Medication Errors
    This Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) site offers an introduction to the topic of medication errors and a list of drug products associated with medication errors. Links for reporting me details...
    Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, U.S. Food and Drug Administration
    Medication Errors Reporting Program
    This web site presents health care professionals who encounter actual or potential medication errors with several options by which to report these incidents confidentially to U.S. Pharmacopeia (USP).  details...
    U.S. Pharmacopeia
    MedWatch Online Voluntary Reporting Form (3500)
    This MedWatch Online form is available to you for the voluntary reporting of serious adverse events, potential and actual medical product errors, and product quality problems associated with the use o details...
    U.S. Food and Drug Administration
    MedWatch, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Medical Products Reporting Program
    MedWatch, the FDA Medical Products Reporting Program, is an initiative designed to both educate all health professionals about the critical importance of being aware of, monitoring for, and reporting  details...
    Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, U.S. Food and Drug Administration
    Quality of Health Care: Q-Pack
    As part of its effort to make health care safer and reduce medical errors, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has developed materials that will help patients choose wisely when it c details...
    Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

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