Patient Safety

Clean hands can protect you from serious infections while you are a patient in a healthcare facility.

Infections can put you and your family at risk for a life-threatening condition called sepsis.

CDC’s national educational effort to help improve antibiotic prescribing and use and combat antibiotic resistance.

In the United States, a number of safeguards are required by law to help ensure that the vaccines we receive are safe.

Learn how to keep children safe by practicing safe dosing and storage.

About 50,000 young children end up in emergency rooms each year because they got into medicines while an adult wasn’t looking.

Here are 10 simple things you can do to avoid getting an infection in a hospital or other healthcare setting.

Protect yourself and your loved ones from infections related to surgery.