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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion

PROTECT Initiative

About this resource:

HHS Non-Systematic Review

Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Last Reviewed: April 2024

Workgroups: Medical Product Safety Workgroup

This website provides an overview for the PRevention of Overdoses and Treatment Errors in Children Taskforce (PROTECT) Initiative. The PROTECT Initiative  is an innovative collaboration that develops strategies to keep children safe from unintentional medication overdoses. The website has information of unintentional overdose statistics and links to their work on:

  • Safer packaging 
  • Safer use
  • Safer storage
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Objectives related to this resource (1)

Reduce emergency department visits for medication overdoses in children under 5 years — MPS‑01
Little or no detectable change

Suggested Citation

1.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2020). PROTECT Initiative: Advancing children's medication safety. Retrieved from https://www.cdc.gov/medication-safety/protect