Patient Safety Awareness Week 2003
National Patient Safety Awareness Week, March 9-15, 2003
Photos from Patient Safety Week events
The Texas A&M Health Science Center marked National Patient Safety Awareness Week (March 9-15) with activities designed to educate the public about becoming more effective partners in their own health care. Dr. Josie Williams, director of the Quality and Patient Safety Initiatives program, stressed several messages for Patient Safety Awareness Week: encouraging patients to become more informed healthcare consumers and to communicate with their health professionals, asking questions and raising points of potential misunderstanding or disagreement; urging family members to become involved with their loved ones' healthcare needs, if necessary serving as advocates with medical professionals; and urging patients to become educated about the medications they have been prescribed before they take any drug.
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A number of informative brochures and fact sheets are available in English and Spanish:
