Virginia Mumford, Magdalena Z Raban, Ling Li, Erin Fitzpatrick, Amanda Woods, Alison Merchant, Tim Badgery-Parker, Peter Gates, Melissa Baysari, Ric O Day, Geoffrey Ambler, Luciano Dalla-Pozza, Madlen Gazarian, Alan Gardo, Peter Barclay, Les White, Johanna I Westbrook
AIMS: The potential harm associated with medication errors is widely reported, but data on actual harm are limited. When actual harm has been measured, assessment processes are often poorly described, limiting their ability to be reproduced by other studies. Our aim was to design and implement a new process to assess actual harm resulting from medication errors in paediatric inpatient care. METHODS: Prescribing errors were identified through retrospective medical record reviews (n = 26 369 orders) and medication administration errors through direct observation (n = 5137 administrations) in a tertiary paediatric hospital...
March 26, 2024: British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology