CDC is Committed to Making Health Care Safer

This Patient Safety Awareness Week, CDC is reminding patients that they play an important role in ensuring that health care is safe. CDC has resources to help keep patients safe wherever and whenever they receive care—this week and throughout the year. Visit the new Patient Safety website to learn about patient safety topics from hand hygiene to safe medication storage, all in one place.

Learn more:

Find out 10 Things You Can Do to Avoid Infections.
Watch Speak Up, a new video about making dialysis safer for patients.
Learn about the Clean Hands Count campaign.
Get information for patients and families about antibiotic-resistant germs in hospitals.
Find out if antibiotics will help any of these common illnesses.
Learn how to get ahead of sepsis.