Health Canada's role in the Management and Prevention of Harmful Medication Incidents

Health Canada's role in the Management and Prevention of Harmful Medication Incidents An important part of patient safety is medication safety, as medication incidents are a leading cause of patient injury. Health Canada, as the federal regulator has a role to play in reducing and preventing harmful medication incidents, particularly those that result from a health product's name, package or label. 2022-04-28 Health Canada open-ouvert@tbs-sct.gc.ca Health and Safetyharmful-medication-incidentsHealth Canada's rolemanagement harmful-medication-incidents Health Canada's role in the Management and Prevention of Harmful Medication IncidentsHTML https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/drugs-health-products/medeffect-canada/medeffect-canada-role-management-prevention-harmful-medication-incidents.html Health Canada's role in the Management and Prevention of Harmful Medication IncidentsHTML https://www.canada.ca/fr/sante-canada/services/medicaments-produits-sante/medeffet-canada/medeffet-canada-role-gestion-prevention-incidents-medicamenteux-nefastes.html

An important part of patient safety is medication safety, as medication incidents are a leading cause of patient injury. Health Canada, as the federal regulator has a role to play in reducing and preventing harmful medication incidents, particularly those that result from a health product's name, package or label.

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