Reported medication events in a paediatric emergency research network: sharing to improve patient safety (October 2012)

Summary

Medication errors are an important cause of preventable morbidity, especially in children in emergency department (ED) settings. Internal use of voluntary incident reporting (IR) is common within hospitals, with little external reporting or sharing of this information across institutions. In this paper published Emergency Medicine Journal, authors describe the analysis of paediatric medication events (ME) reported in 18 EDs in a paediatric research network in 2007–2008.