5 Questions to Ask about Your Medications is a guide to help persons and their support network start conversations with health providers about their medications (168). Ensuring persons are active partners in their care, and ensuring they receive important information about their medications helps promote medication safety. It may be particularly helpful for persons to ask the following five questions about their medications when attending appointments with their primary care providers, communicating with their community pharmacist, and when preparing for a transition from hospital to home. The 5 Questions to Ask About Your Medications resource is available in 30 languages.

Source: Reprinted with permission from: Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) Canada, The Canadian Patient Safety Institute (CPSI), Patients for Patient Safety Canada (PFPSC), et al. 5 questions to ask about your medications [Internet]. Toronto (ON): ISMP Canada; 2016. Co-published with CPSI and CFPSC.

Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario. (2023). Appendix K of Transitions in Care and Services. (Second Ed.). Toronto, ON: Author.  pp. 128 .