• How you can help to ensure your safety when receiving cancer treatments
• How To Take Your Medications Safely
• Doctors Office
• Treat Medication Samples with Respect
• Request a Brown-Bag Check-up

Tools for consumers

Free Video from the US Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality: Next Steps After Diagnosis. Click here to Read Transcript.

Free Video from the US Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality: Tips for Taking Medicine Safely. Click here to Read Transcript.

Medication History Form - BLANK (PDF file, 109 Kb, 4 pages)

Medication History Form – SAMPLE (PDF file, 125 Kb, 2 pages)

MEDLINEplus® will direct you to information to help answer health questions. MEDLINEplus brings together, by health topic, authoritative information from NLM, the National Institute of Health (NIH), other government, non-profit and other health-related organizations. Reformulated MEDLINE searches are included in MEDLINEplus and give easy access to the medical research literature. It also provides you with a database of full-text drug information and an illustrated medical encyclopedia.

Medication Errors That Have Occurred
and How You Can Avoid Them

How to Administer or Take Medications

• Eye drops or ear drops? Don't let this common mix-up happen to you!
• To Chew, OR Not to Chew? Patient Dies After Chewing Medication
• Preventing tragedies caused by syringe tip caps
• The importance of counseling when you fill a prescription: a cautionary tale
• Infant Formula: Read And Follow The Label Instructions!
• Doggy drops in your child's ear?
• Preventing throat ulcers caused by Fosamax
• Patch problems
• Why it's important to read the labels of your medications
• Common Misuse of Scabies/Lice Medication Can Be Dangerous
• Suppository stories

General Advice

• Caution to Patients with Poor Eyesight: How to Avoid a "Sticky" Situation
• Hold the Phone.there may be problems with cell phones in the hospital
• Family Intervention Saves a Life
• Herbal alert
• Kidproofing your home against accidental poisoning
• How kids get what they want
• Do you know your plants?
• Preparation and Instruction Needed for Care at Home
• School Handling of Medications
• HAVE A PRESCRIPTION? TALK TO A PHARMACIST
• Speak up for better patient care!
• Prevent accidental vitamin overdoses

• Penny wise/Pound foolish? Breaking tablets to save money may be dangerous
• Teaspoon v. tablespoon: what's the difference?
• CAUTION: Liquid Tylenol for infants is more concentrated than other Tylenol liquids
• Caution! Dose cups that come with nonprescription drugs are unique for each product
• What is a "dropperful"?

• WELLBUTRIN OR ZYBAN: What's in a Name?
• Always Know Exactly What You Put in your Mouth
• OTC drug names-Is what you see really what you get?