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American Medical Association
AMA Asks Patients: Do You Know What's in Your Medicine Cabinet?
March 21st, 2008
To help mark National Patient Safety Awareness Week, the American Medical Association (AMA) is calling on patients to be an active partner in their own health care -- starting with a simple check of the items in their own medicine cabinet. The theme of this year's National Patient Safety Awareness Week, which begins today, is "A Road Taken Together," and the AMA is offering easy tips for patients and new materials for physicians to help improve patient safety. "Expired over-the-counter medications, unused prescription drugs, and certain supplements can make the family medicine cabinet a dangerous and confusing place, if not regularly checked and cleaned," said AMA Board...
Source: Health Business Week (2008-03-21)
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