ReviewHealth services insights2013
Reducing the risk of harm from medication errors in children.
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21 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- 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
- Health Literacy-Informed Communication to Reduce Discharge Medication Errors in Hospitalized Children: A Randomized Clinical Trial.JAMA network open · 2024Trial
- Therapeutic Medication Errors in the Non-Healthcare Facility Setting Associated with Hospital Admission, 2000-2024.Journal of medical toxicology : official journal of the American College of Medical Toxicology · 2026Article
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- Medication errors in malaria management in children: insights from pharmacovigilance data in the Democratic Republic of Congo.BMC pharmacology & toxicology · 2025Article
- Community Caregivers' Perspectives on Health IT Use for Children With Medical Complexity: Qualitative Interview Study.JMIR pediatrics and parenting · 2025Article
- Parents' Perceptions Regarding Their Children's Medications and Expert-Assessed Drug-Related Problems in Pediatric Patients with Inborn Errors of Metabolism.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Perceptions and attitudes of pediatricians and families with regard to pediatric medication errors at home.BMC pediatrics · 2023Article
- Caregiver and Clinician Perspectives on Discharge Medication Counseling: A Qualitative Study.Hospital pediatrics · 2023Article
- An Audit on Pharmacists' Knowledge and Experience in Pediatric Care.The journal of pediatric pharmacology and therapeutics : JPPT : the official journal of PPAG · 2022Article
- Testing of Defects per Million Medication Orders as a SMART Indicator for Monitoring Medication Safety in Admission and Discharge Orders.Global journal on quality and safety in healthcare · 2021Article
- Medication Errors in Pediatrics: Proposals to Improve the Quality and Safety of Care Through Clinical Risk Management.Frontiers in medicine · 2021Review
- The difficulties experienced during the preparation and administration of oral drugs by parents at home: a cross-sectional study from Palestine.BMC pediatrics · 2020Article
- Patient Centric Pharmaceutical Drug Product Design-The Impact on Medication Adherence.Pharmaceutics · 2020Review
- The Knowledge and Attitudes about the Benefits, Risks and Use of Medicine in Aged Primary Students in Indonesia.Open access Macedonian journal of medical sciences · 2019Article
- Dispensing errors from look-alike drug trade names.European journal of hospital pharmacy : science and practice · 2018Article
- Measuring non-administration of ordered medications in the pediatric inpatient setting.International journal of medical informatics · 2018Article
- An informatics research agenda to support patient and family empowerment and engagement in care and recovery during and after hospitalization.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA · 2018Article
- 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
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Abstract
medication errors affect the pediatric age group in all settingsoutpatient, inpatient, emergency department, and at home. Children may be at special risk due to size and physiologic variability, limited communication ability, and treatment by nonpediatric health care providers. Those with chronic illnesses and on multiple medications may be at higher risk of experiencing adverse drug events. Some strategies that have been employed to reduce harm from pediatric medication errors include e-prescribing and computerized provider order entry with decision support, medication reconciliation, barcode systems, clinical pharmacists in medical settings, medical staff training, package changes to reduce look-alike/sound-alike confusion, standardization of labeling and measurement devices for home administration, and quality improvement interventions to promote nonpunitive reporting of medication errors coupled with changes in systems and cultures. Future research is needed to measure the effectiveness of these preventive strategies.
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