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VHA National Center for Patient Safety
Resources for Veterans and Families
Managing Your Medications
- A comprehensive drug reference that helps answer your medication questions*†
- Ask a Pharmacist Mobile Application
- Managing Your Prescription Refills
- VA MEDSAFE
Medical Devices
- Can I bring my own medical device with me to the hospital*†
- Fire Safety and Oxygen: A Patient Guide*†
Mental Health Assistance
- About Face
- Military Sexual Trauma (MST) Support
- PTSD Coach Application
- National Suicide Prevention Lifeline
- VA Mental Health Assistance
- VA Suicide Prevention Program #BeThere
- Veterans Crisis Line (1-800-273-8255)
Self Help
- Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's "20 Tips to Help Prevent Medical Errors"*
- Coaching Into Care
- Five Steps to Safer Healthcare
- Health Benefits Explorer
- MyHealtheVet
- Patient and Nursing Home Resident Rights and Responsibilities from VHA outlines basics regarding respect, nondiscrimination, information disclosure, confidentiality, participation in treatment decisions and complaints.
- University of California, San Francisco, offers a brochure, "Patient Safety & You"*† and patient safety page, Patient Safety*†
- Vets.gov - A one-stop shop for everything related to the VA benefits you've earned.
- Web-based Self-Help Courses