Patient Safety is the #1 focus area in healthcare today. Over the past several years, many organizations have been formed to address this important issue.

National Patient Safety Foundation
World Health Organization – Patient Safety
Joint Commission International Center for Patient Safety

Medication errors are the most common from of medical error, affecting millions of people each year. Since 1999, healthcare providers, hospitals, and clinics have been working on ways to improve their methods to prevent these errors. Now, awareness has shifted to individual patients since they can do even more.

Many pharmacists, physicians, and other healthcare providers have found that the best way to prevent errors is to involve patients and encourage them to carry medication lists.