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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.
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 will bring the experts to you in this new feature dedicated to answering your follow-up questions from our pediatric patient safety webinars. Email your questions or concerns to saferhealthcare@aap.org, and check back to this site for our experts’ guidance.
In this feature, we share brief tips to help you ensure a safe health care environment for your patients and their families.
'Do Not Use' List of Abbreviations
Medical abbreviations have long aided clinicians in reducing time to document visits and write prescriptions. Unfortunately, many of these abbreviations have been written poorly, interpreted incorrectly, and have resulted in avoidable medical errors. In May 2005, The Joint Commission affirmed its “do not use” list of abbreviations list as part of the requirements for meeting National Patient Safety Goal Requirement 2B (Standardize a list of abbreviations, acronyms and symbols that are not to be used throughout the organization). The list includes 5 common abbreviations that can result in medical errors: U (unit); IU (International Unit); QD/QOD; trailing and leading zeroes; and MSO4 and MgSO4 (morphine sulfate and magnesium sulfate). These abbreviations should not be used.
For more information on the Joint Commission abbreviations click here.
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