Pediatric Medication Errors: What Do We Know? What Gaps Remain?

The Family Perspective on Hospital to Home Transitions: A Qualitative Study

“…[11][12][13] Other consequences include emergency department revisits, medication errors, primary care provider dissatisfaction with communication or confusion regarding discharge care responsibilities, patient or family dissatisfaction, and unanticipated out-of-pocket costs. [14][15][16][17][18][19][20] Current care delivery models propagate fragmented transition processes that place undue burdens on patients, families, and the health care system. The importance of successful transitions is recognized by leading academic societies in medicine, pediatrics, and nursing.…”

Adverse Drug Event Rates in Six Community Hospitals and the Potential Impact of Computerized Physician Order Entry for Prevention

“…We randomly selected 200 inpatient charts for review per study site, after calculating that that would give us a robust point estimate of incidence at each site. All admitting services were included with the exception of the psychiatric and neonatal services because different identification approaches would have been more effective for those populations 10,11 . A random sample was generated using a random number generator in the programming language Cache.…”

Liquid Medication Errors and Dosing Tools: A Randomized Controlled Experiment

“…17 Unlike most prescription drugs taken by adults, pediatric medications are unique in their reliance on liquid formulations. 18 With oral liquid medicines, parents must choose an appropriate tool with which to measure and administer medicine to their children. 14 In addition, a range of measurement units (eg, milliliter, teaspoon, tablespoon), along with their associated abbreviations, are used as part of instructions on labels and dosing tools, contributing to confusion and multifold errors.…”