ReviewPaediatric drugs2013
Medication discrepancies at transitions in pediatrics: a review of the literature.
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24 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 53 citations in OpenAlex.
- Interventions to Reduce Pediatric Prescribing Errors in Professional Healthcare Settings: A Systematic Review of the Last Decade.Paediatric drugs · 2021Pooled it
- Interventions to Reduce Medication Dispensing, Administration, and Monitoring Errors in Pediatric Professional Healthcare Settings: A Systematic Review.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2021Pooled it
- Pharmacists' Medication Reconciliation Interventions During Admission and Transfer from an Emergency Department at a Tertiary Care Hospital: A Randomized Pilot Study and Evaluation of Physician and Patient Perceptions.Current drug safety · 2024Trial
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- Partnered Pharmacist Medication Charting for Children and Young People: A Retrospective Cohort Study.Journal of paediatrics and child health · 2026Article
- Medication Reconciliation of Patients by Pharmacist at the Time of Admission and Discharge from Adult Nephrology Wards.Pharmacy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Impact of a Bundle of Interventions on the Spectrum of Parenteral Drug Preparation Errors in a Neonatal and Pediatric Intensive Care Unit.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Article
- Reducing Discharge Medication Reconciliation Errors at a Pediatric Neurology Inpatient Unit.Neurology. Clinical practice · 2024Article
- Pseudorandomized Testing of a Discharge Medication Alert to Reduce Free-Text Prescribing.Applied clinical informatics · 2023Article
- Creating Data Standards to Support the Electronic Transmission of Compounded Nonsterile Preparations (CNSPs): Perspectives of a United States Pharmacopeia Expert Panel.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Evaluation of medication risk at the transition of care: a cross-sectional study of patients from the ICU to the non-ICU setting.BMJ open · 2022Article
- Admission Medication Reconciliations in Pediatric Patients Admitted to an Inpatient Psychiatry Unit.The journal of pediatric pharmacology and therapeutics : JPPT : the official journal of PPAG · 2022Article
- Medications Reconciled at Discharge Versus Admission Among Inpatients at a Children's Hospital.Hospital pediatrics · 2021Article
- Completeness of Medication Reconciliation Performed by Pediatric Resident Physicians at Hospital Admission for Asthma.The Canadian journal of hospital pharmacy · 2021Article
- Perceptions of nurses, pharmacists and physicians about medication reconciliation: A multicenter study.Saudi pharmaceutical journal : SPJ : the official publication of the Saudi Pharmaceutical Society · 2020Article
- Patient Safety in Ambulatory Pediatrics.Current treatment options in pediatrics · 2020Review
- The Role of the Nurse in the Management of Medicines During Transitional Care: A Systematic Review.Journal of multidisciplinary healthcare · 2020Review
- Medication Reconciliation Failures in Children and Young Adults With Chronic Disease During Intensive and Intermediate Care.Pediatric critical care medicine : a journal of the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies · 2017Observational
- A framework of pediatric hospital discharge care informed by legislation, research, and practice.JAMA pediatrics · 2014Review
- [Not Available].The Canadian journal of hospital pharmacy · 2014Article
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7 authors at 4 institutions in 3 countries.
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Abstract
Medication reconciliation is an important process in reducing medication errors in many countries. Canada, the USA, and UK have incorporated medication reconciliation as a priority area for national patient safety initiatives and goals. The UK national guidance excludes the pediatric population. The aim of this review was to explore the occurrence of medication discrepancies in the pediatric population. The primary objective was to identify studies reporting the rate and clinical significance of the discrepancies and the secondary objective was to ascertain whether any specific interventions have been used for medication reconciliation in pediatric settings. The following electronic bibliographic databases were used to identify studies: PubMed, OVID EMBASE (1980 to 2012 week 1), ISI Web of Science, ISI Biosis, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature, and OVID International Pharmaceutical Abstracts (1970 to January 2012). Primary studies were identified that observed medication discrepancies in children under 18 years of age upon hospital admission, transfer and discharge, or had reported medication reconciliation interventions. Two independent reviewers screened titles and abstracts for relevant articles and extracted data using pre-defined data fields, including risk of bias assessment. Ten studies were identified with variances in reportage of stage and rate of discrepancies. Studies were heterogeneous in definitions, methods, and patient populations. Most studies related to admissions and reported consistently high rates of discrepancies ranging from 22 to 72.3 % of patients (sample size ranging from 23 to 272). Seven of the studies were low-quality observational studies and three studies were 'grey literature' non-peer reviewed conference abstracts. Studies involving small numbers of patients have shown that medication discrepancies occur at all transitions of care in children. Further research is required to investigate and demonstrate how implementing medication reconciliation can reduce discrepancies and potential patient harm.
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