Patient Safety and Medical Errors

The latest evidence-based information for improving your health from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).

Medically Induced Trauma Support Services (MITSS), Inc. is a non-profit organization founded in June of 2002 whose mission is "To Support Healing and Restore Hope" to patients, families, and clinicians who have been affected by an adverse medical event.

Use this record to keep track of your prescription medicines, over-the-counter medicines and dietary supplements. You can store the record on your personal computer. Keep a printed copy with you at all times; share the record with your doctors, pharmacists, or other health professionals at all visits.

NCPIE is a coalition of over 125 diverse organizations whose mission is to stimulate and improve communication of information on appropriate medicine use to consumers and healthcare professionals.

Free patient safety journal.

Quackwatch, Inc., is a nonprofit corporation whose purpose is to combat health-related frauds, myths, fads, fallacies, and misconduct. Its primary focus is on quackery-related information that is difficult or impossible to get elsewhere. Founded by Dr. Stephen Barrett in 1969 as the Lehigh Valley Committee Against Health Fraud, it was incorporated in 1970.

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality: Clinicians, the Government, and many other groups are working hard to improve health care quality, but it's a team effort. You can improve your care and the care of your loved ones by taking an active role in your health care. Ask questions. Understand your condition. Evaluate your options.

NCC MERP

MedlinePlus

Medcom

Patient safety primer

Health Leaders

AHRQ

CDC summary of select HAIs across four healthcare settings; acute care hospitals (ACHs), inpatient rehabilitation facilities (IRFs),long-term acute care hospitals (LTACHs) and critical access hospitals (CAHs).