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Patient safety is recognized as an important issue in health care, particularly for our most vulnerable population - children. The conclusions drawn by recent studies on the incidence of medical errors in pediatrics are disturbing and might lead you to wonder what you can do to ensure a safe health care environment for your patients and their families.
Check out our directory of resources related to pediatric patient safety.
The Safer Health Care for Kids program features a series of one-hour Web-based seminars, or "Webinars," on various topics within pediatric patient safety. You can participate from the comfort of your office or home, and learn new strategies that you can immediately put into practice to prevent medical errors.
In this feature, we share brief tips to help you ensure a safe health care environment for your patients and their families. Patient Identification A failure to correctly identify patients can lead to medication errors, transfusion errors, testing errors, wrong person procedures, and the discharge of infants to the wrong families. The WHO Collaborating Centre for Patient Safety Solutions proposes several strategies for ensuring proper patient identification, including emphasizing the responsibility of health-care workers in the identification process and encouraging the use of at least two unique identifiers to verify a patient’s identity upon admission or transfer to another care setting and prior to administering medications. For more information on this solution from the WHO Collaborating Centre for Patient Safety Solutions, click here. For more information on this 2009 National Patient Safety Goal from The Joint Commission, click here.
Are you looking for an opportunity to share experiences and strategies with other clinicians to improve care? The Safer Health Care for Kids program features an e-mail list dedicated to pediatric program safety issues and information exchange. Sign up for the e-mail list by clicking the link below. |
 
Welcome, parents and caregivers. We value your role as advocate for your child’s health care safety and have dedicated this spot for you. The resources featured below will help you understand what you can do to ensure that your child receives safe health care in any setting.
For additional parenting resources not related to Safer Health Care for Kids, please visit the Parenting Corner. The information contained here should not be used as a substitute for the medical care and advice of your pediatrician. There may be variations in treatment that your pediatrician may recommend based on individual facts and circumstances. 
We are bringing the experts to you in this interactive feature dedicated to answering your follow-up questions from our pediatric patient safety webinars. Send us your questions or concerns, and we will respond back to you directly via email shortly. The question and answer may also be published on this site to provide guidance to others. Please note that your name, affiliation, and email address will be not published here with your question. If you are not ready to submit a question today, then check out our experts' guidance on questions previously submitted. Select a page to view questions and answers or submit your own question: |
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