ReviewFrontiers in medicine2021
Medication Errors in Pediatrics: Proposals to Improve the Quality and Safety of Care Through Clinical Risk Management.
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- Medication-related problems and their associated factors among paediatric patients in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMJ paediatrics open · 2026Pooled it
- Parents' perceptions of patient safety in paediatric hospital care-A mixed-methods systematic review.Journal of advanced nursing · 2025Pooled it
- Parents' Experiences of Patient Safety Incidents During Their Child's Hospitalization: A Qualitative Study.Journal of clinical nursing · 2026Article
- 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
- How Nurses Maintain High-Risk Medication Safety in Paediatric Intensive Care.Nursing in critical care · 2026Article
- Assessing medication safety culture in Norwegian pediatric wards: a first nationwide survey.BMC pediatrics · 2026Article
- Development and pilot evaluation of an AI-based pediatric medication safety virtual simulation program for nursing students: a quasi-experimental study in South Korea.Child health nursing research · 2026Article
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- How are young children treated? Multiprovincial patterns of prescribing for children under 5 in Sri Lanka.BMJ paediatrics open · 2026Article
- Harm to Children from Prescribing and Administration Errors in Acute Care: A Multidisciplinary Panel Assessment.Drug safety · 2026Article
- Age-specific differences in patient safety incidents: focus on falls and medication using the Korean patient safety incident reporting and learning system (2016-2023).BMC health services research · 2026Article
- Clinical Factors Associated With Patterns of Medication Errors Among Pediatric Hospitalized Patients in Northwest Ethiopia: A Multicenter Prospective Observational Study.BioMed research international · 2026Observational
- Impact of clinical pharmacist-led medication management and education on tacrolimus therapeutic control.Frontiers in medicine · 2026Article
- Factors associated with medication administration errors in hospitalized pediatric patients: A scoping review.Therapeutic advances in drug safety · 2026Article
- Patient Safety Events and Additional Hospital Stay and Direct Cost among Pediatric Patients in a Philippine Tertiary Government Hospital.Acta medica Philippina · 2026Article
- Prevalence and predictors of prescribing errors in a primary care setting in Ghana.Therapeutic advances in drug safety · 2026Article
- The magnitude of drug-related problems, typology, and predictors among patients admitted to the pediatric intensive care unit: impact of pharmacist-led interventions in Northwest Ethiopia.Therapeutic advances in drug safety · 2026Article
- Nurses and Midwives Mistakes and Errors in Pediatric Health Outcomes in Southwestern Uganda.Pediatric health, medicine and therapeutics · 2026Article
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- The Effect of Standard Concentration Infusions on Medication Errors in Neonatal and Pediatric Healthcare Settings: A Systematic Review.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Review
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Abstract
Medication errors represent one of the most common causes of adverse events in pediatrics and are widely reported in the literature. Despite the awareness that children are at increased risk for medication errors, little is known about the real incidence of the phenomenon. Most studies have focused on prescription, although medication errors also include transcription, dispensing, dosage, administration, and certification errors. Known risk factors for therapeutic errors include parenteral infusions, oral fluid administration, and tablet splitting, as well as the off-label use of drugs with dosages taken from adult literature. Emergency Departments and Intensive Care Units constitute the care areas mainly affected by the phenomenon in the hospital setting. The present paper aims to identify the risk profiles in pediatric therapy to outline adequate preventive strategies. Precisely, through the analysis of the available evidence, solutions such as standardization of recommended doses for children, electronic prescribing, targeted training of healthcare professionals, and implementation of reporting systems will be indicated for the prevention of medication errors.
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