- 2017. “Accidental Overdose of Medicine.” Healthdirect | Healthdirect. Accessed October 9, 2018. https://www.healthdirect.gov.au/accidental-overdose-of-medicines.
- HealthDirect is the national public health information service in Australia. It is a credible source that is funded by the Australian government, and has health information that is openly accessible to Australians and the rest of the world. It is a non-profit organization that seeks to improve public health and health awareness. This article does three important things: First, it defines what an accidental overdose is. Second, it describes the ways in which accidental overdoses on pills occur, and finally, it lists the symptoms of poisoning and overdose. This article is helpful to our health care innovation because it describes the ways in which overdose happens. Using this information, we can design a better innovation that addresses many of the ways in which accidental overdoses can occur. For example, the article mentions that people forget that they have already taken their dose, which means that our innovation can have a counter/lock system after each dose.
- Green, Traci C., and Edward F. Donnelly. 2011. “Preventable Death: Accidental Drug Overdose in Rhode Island.” Medicine & Health Rhode Island 94 (11): 341–43.
- Green and Donnelly are two people with scientific backgrounds in health and medicine. Dr. Green, a Harvard graduate, is an epidemiologist who specializes in emergency care and drug abuse. The journal is a medical journal, and is a reputable source that has been publishing since 1917. This article is about accidental overdoses in Rhode Island, and how the number has increased significantly. Green and Donnelly analyze statistics, and provide the reader with a lot of quantitative data on which demographics are hospitalized for accidental overdose, including gender, age and race. This information will be helpful in developing our healthcare innovation in that we will know which demographics need this technology. For example, children suffer from accidental overdoses. These statistics also further stress the need for the innovation.
- Lieber, Mark. 2018. “Opioid Overdose among Children Nearly Doubles.” CNN. Accessed October 9, 2018. https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/05/health/opioid-overdose-children-doubles-study/index.html.
- Mark Lieber is a journalist who has wrote for CNN extensively on articles concerning “Global Health.” CNN is a broadcasting channel with an online presence as well; overall, it is a very reputable source. This article discusses the ways in which children accidentally overdose on pills and medication, and how this has increasingly become a problem in our country. This source will be helpful because it will add more reasons to why this health care innovation is needed.
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