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[Medication errors in pediatric inpatients: a multicentric prospective study].

C Stheneur·J-B Armengaud·C Castro·G Chéron·B Chevallier
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OBJECTIVE: To improve the knowledge of medication errors in paediatrics: rate of occurrence, error characteristics, risk factors. PATIENTS AND METHODS: Our prospective study included nine uninformed teaching paediatric wards (general paediatrics, emergency departments, intensive care units) using a describing questionnaire built from medical reports analysis (event description, medical issues, contributing personal and structural factors) during a two-months period. RESULTS: Seventy-five questionnaires were collected and analysed. Medical errors reported concerned prescription: 21 cases and administration: 45 cases. Ten errors led to adverse effects. An attributable factor was noted in 39 cases. Concerning prescription errors, no respect to protocol: 11 cases, lack of knowledge: 3 cases, personal communication failure: 3 cases were noted. Concerning administration errors, human mistakes (lack of experience, miscommunication, calculation error): 8 cases, unclear prescription: 6 cases and system flaws: 6 cases were noted. Several attribuable causes were reported in 8 cases. CONCLUSIONS: Medication errors in paediatrics inpatients are common and contributing factors intricated. Paediatricians should help hospitals develop effective programs for safety providing medications, reporting medication errors, errors analysis strategy and creating a safe environment of medication for all hospitalised paediatric patients.

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C Stheneur, J-B Armengaud, C Castro, G Chéron, B Chevallier. 2006-08-30. [Medication errors in pediatric inpatients: a multicentric prospective study].. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.arcped.2006.06.024

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