Doing all you can to promote dosing safety?

摘要

In 2008, Daniel Budnitz, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Medication Safety Program in the division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, enlisted the help of private-sector companies, public health agencies, consumer/patient advocates, and other experts to develop strategies to reduce medication overdosing in children. Under PROTECT (Preventing Overdoses and Treatment Errors in Children Taskforce), the group set out to improve medication packaging to reduce harm from unsupervised ingestions, as well as to refine dosing measures on medication packaging and labeling to reduce errors potentially made by parents/caregivers when administering medications.