ArticlePediatric critical care medicine : a journal of the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies2020
Medications for Children Receiving Intensive Care: A National Sample.
Article in Pediatric critical care medicine : a journal of the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- Predicting Future Care Requirements Using Machine Learning for Pediatric Intensive and Routine Care Inpatients.Critical care explorations · 2021Article
- The Association of Laboratory Test Abnormalities With Mortality Risk in Pediatric Intensive 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 · 2021Article
- Severity Trajectories of Pediatric Inpatients Using the Criticality Index.Pediatric critical care medicine : a journal of the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies · 2021Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo examine medication administration records through electronic health record data to provide a broad description of the pharmaceutical exposure of critically ill children.
designRetrospective cohort study using the Cerner Health Facts database.
settingUnited States. PATIENTS: A total of 43,374 children 7 days old to less than 22 years old receiving intensive care with available pharmacy data.
interventionsNone. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN
resultsA total of 907,440 courses of 1,080 unique medications were prescribed with a median of nine medications (range, 1-99; 25-75th percentile, 5-16) per patient. The most common medications were acetaminophen, ondansetron, and morphine. Only 45 medications (4.2%) were prescribed to more than 5% of patients, and these accounted for 442,067 (48.7%) of the total courses of medications. Each additional medication was associated with increased univariate risk of mortality (odds ratio, 1.05; 95% CI, 1.05-1.06; p < 0.001).
conclusionsChildren receiving intensive care receive a median of nine medications per patient and one quarter are prescribed at least than 16 medications. Only 45 medications were prescribed to more than 5% of patients, but these accounted for almost half of all medication courses.
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