Safety Tip: Preventing Medication Errors

Tonight’s tip brought to you courtesy of Poison Control. If you or your child takes multiple medications that are similar in appearance, color code the bottles. This can help prevent a medication error.
Medication errors occur daily in the US: https://psnet.ahrq.gov/primers/primer/23/medication-errors

While many factors can contribute to medication error, in this case we identified that having 8 identical bottles (only 7 pictured), with the contents also looking similar was the main factor.