Pediatric patients are at risk for medication errors during inpatient hospital stays but also in their own homes.
From the CDC:
Findings from national data suggest 4 things busy clinicians can tell parents and older children about using medicines safely.
1.Among children, unintended medication overdoses (rather than allergic reactions or side effects) are the most common cause of serious harm and lead to more than 70,000 emergency department visits every year.
2.It is not errors by clinicians that cause most of these overdoses — Read the rest of this entry »
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