Patient Safety Toolkit

Getting Safer Health Care

• Five Steps to Safer Health Care 
  • Cinco Recomendaciones para Recibir una Mejor Atención Médica
•  What You Can Do to Make Health Care Safer: A Consumer Tip Sheet 
• 20 Tips to Help Prevent Medical Errors
  • 20 recomendaciones paraayudar a prevenir loserrores médicos 
• 20 Tips to Help Prevent Medical Errors in Children
  • 20 recomendaciones para ayudar a prevenir los errores médicos en los niños 
• Quick Tips—When Talking with Your Doctor
  • Consejos—para cuando visite a su médico 
• Quick Tips—When Getting Medical Tests
  • Consejos—para cuando necesite pruebas médicas 
• Quick Tips—When Planning for Surgery
  • Consejos para cuandonecesite operarse 
• Now You Have a Diagnosis: What's Next?
  • Le han Diagnosticado ¿Que es lo que Sigue?
• Speak Up—Help Prevent Errors in Your Care

Managing Your Medication

• Pharmacy Safety and Service: What You Should Expect 
• Using Your Medications Safely: A Guide to Prescription Health
  • Utilizando Sus Medicamentos con Seguridad 
• Medication Wallet Card
  • Tarjeta de Medicamentos de Cartera 

Preparing for Your Hospital Visit 

• Be Informed: Questions to Ask Your Doctor Before You Have Surgery
  • Lo que debe preguntar antes de una cirugía 
• The Role of the Patient Advocate 
• Power of Attorney for Health Care form 
• Living Will or Declaration of Physicians form 
• A Gift to Your Family (For additional resources, please visit www.wisbar.org) 
• Patient Safety Do Your Part!
  • La Seguridad del Paciente ¡Haga suparte! 
• Preventing Infections in the Hospital: What You Can Do

Going Home from the Hospital

• Safety as You Go From Hospital to Home