Medication Error In Infant
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and Women's Health Centre, Faculties of Paediatrics and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of British Columbia Address correspondence to: Bob Poole, PharmD, Director of Pharmacy, Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford, 725 Welch Road, Palo Alto, CA 94304, email: gro.hcpl@elooprAuthor information ► Article notes ► Copyright and License information ►Keywords: medication errors, prevention of errorsCopyright © 2008 Pediatric Pharmacy Advocacy Group.See commentary "Neonatal Heparin Overdose—A Multidisciplinary Team Approach to Medication Error Prevention" on page 96.Medical errors continue to plague the increasingly complex inpatient medical care system. Pediatric patient populations continue see related article page 96to be those most vulnerable to serious and sometimes fatal adverse drug events. Studies have shown that up to 93% of medication errors in children might have been
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» A statement of reaffirmation for this policy was published at pediatric medication administration guidelines 119(5):1031 revised 102(2):428 A statement of retirement for this policy was published at 128(1):e258 PediatricsAugust 2003, VOLUME pediatric medication error stories 112 / ISSUE 2 Prevention of Medication Errors in the Pediatric Inpatient Setting Committee on Drugs and Committee on Hospital Care Article Info & Metrics Comments Download PDF AbstractAlthough http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3462059/ medication errors in hospitals are common, medication errors that result in death or serious injury occur rarely. Even before the Institute of Medicine reported on medical errors in 1999, the American Academy of Pediatrics and its members had been committed to improving the health care system to provide the best and safest health care for infants, children, adolescents, http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/112/2/431 and young adults. This commitment includes designing health care systems to prevent errors and emphasizing the pediatrician’s role in this system. Human and device errors can lead to preventable morbidity and mortality. National and state legislative actions have heightened public awareness of these events. All involved persons, beginning with the physician and including every member of the health care team, must be better educated about and engaged in the several steps recommended to decrease these errors. The safe administration of medications to hospitalized infants and children requires additional specific safeguards that are above and beyond those for adult patients. Pediatricians should help hospitals develop effective programs for safely providing medications, reporting medication errors, and creating an environment of medication safety for all hospitalized pediatric patients.BACKGROUNDHospitalized infants and children are subject to advantages and risks of inpatient care. Included in most medical and surgical treatment regimens for hospitalized pediatric patients is administration of medications that may be associated with undesirable as well as therapeutic effects. The Institute of Medicine (IOM)1 defines an
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