Pediatric Patient Safety  Peds-image1.jpg

Welcome to your resource for pediatric patient safety. Recognizing that this special patient population needs to be handled with careful attention and specific clinical practices, we have dedicated an area under the Patient Safety Quality and Safety Risk Area to help provide guidance for best practices.



Resources

Another Dimension of Safe Care: ED Discharge Instructions by Mary Lacher, MD

Pediatric Medication Errors: Using the NPSGs to Protect Patients

Pediatric Patient Safety in the ED

Read about JCR's March 2009 Emergency Nurses Association presentation

Read about JCR's March 2009 National Initiative for Children's Healthcare Quality (NICHQ) presentation

Read about JCR's Institute for Healthcare Improvement presentation