EDUCATIONAL INTERVENTIONS TO REDUCE PAEDIATRIC PRESCRIBING ERRORS

antibiotic and interventions to reduce inappropriate prescribing

Paediatric prescribing errors.

Prescribing errors are particularly important in paediatrics where dose calculations are complicated and small errors can cause significant harm. Unfortunately, there is no generally agreed definition of what constitutes an error, so studies often use differing criteria. In addition to this, obtaining statistics on rates of error is problematic as staff may be reluctant to report errors or may ...

Methods to reduce prescribing errors in elderly patients with multimorbidity

The global population of multimorbid older people is growing steadily. Multimorbidity is the principal cause of complex polypharmacy, which in turn is the prime risk factor for inappropriate prescribing and adverse drug reactions and events. Those who prescribe for older frailer multimorbid people are particularly prone to committing prescribing errors of various kinds. The causes of prescribin...

Educational interventions to improve prescribing competency: a systematic review

OBJECTIVE To review the literature on educational interventions to improve prescribing and identify educational methods that improve prescribing competency in both medical and non-medical prescribers. DESIGN A systematic review was conducted. The databases Medline, International Pharmaceutical Abstracts (IPA), EMBASE and CINAHL were searched for articles in English published between January 1...

Interventions to reduce medication errors in pediatric intensive care.

OBJECTIVE To systematically examine the research literature to identify which interventions reduce medication errors in pediatric intensive care units. DATA SOURCES Databases were searched from inception to April 2014. STUDY SELECTION AND DATA EXTRACTION Studies were included if they involved the conduct of an intervention with the intent of reducing medication errors. DATA SYNTHESIS In a...