About this resource:
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Last Reviewed: April 2020
Workgroups: Medical Product Safety Workgroup
This website provides an overview for the PRevention of Overdoses and Treatment Errors in Children Taskforce (PROTECT) Initiative. The PROTECT Initiative is an innovative collaboration that develops strategies to keep children safe from unintentional medication overdoses. The website has information of unintentional overdose statistics and links to their work on:
- Safer packaging
- Safer use
- Safer storage
Objectives related to this resource (1)
Little or no detectable change
Suggested Citation
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2020). PROTECT Initiative: Advancing children's medication safety. Retrieved from https://www.cdc.gov/medicationsafety/protect/protect_initiative.html
