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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 FDA Clears New Surgical Marker; Uses RFID to Protect Patients The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared for marketing an external surgical marker tag intended to minimize the likelihood of wrong-site, wrong-procedure and wrong-patient surgeries. The dev... Details > U.S. Food and Drug Administration Frequently Asked Questions 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