March 2018

ICYMI: Recap Our #P2SaferOpioidUse Twitter Interview with APHA!

Pathways to Safer Opioid Use

Every March we celebrate Patient Safety Awareness Week, a time to raise awareness about the importance of patient safety — and a great opportunity to share strategies that health professionals can use to protect their patients. Pathways to Safer Opioid Use is an interactive training that ODPHP developed for health care professionals, public health professionals, and students...

Watch Our Webinar Recording to Learn More About Preventing Adverse Drug Events

Adverse drug events (ADEs) are a significant public health problem, and they can happen in any health care setting. During transitions of care, when a patient moves from one health care setting to the next, ADEs are the cause of approximately 2 in 3 post-discharge complications. About half of these complications are preventable...