Tips for kids' safe hospital stays.

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No child likes going to the hospital, and while parents worry about what could happen there, families are surprised when they find out how much they can do to make a youngster's experience in the hospital safe and successful. Yale-New Haven Children's Hospital, New Haven, Conn., offers tips in a free fact sheet called Pediatric Patient Safety: Keeping Children Safe in the Hospital.

It provides valuable information for parents on getting ready for their offspring's hospital visit, communicating with caregivers, making sure the child has proper identification in the hospital, preparing for surgery and emergency visits, controlling infections, and reducing medical errors. It also gives tips for children. For example:

* Wear identification and allergy bands or bracelets. If something happens to your ID band, let the people...