Zero tolerance prescribing: a strategy to reduce prescribing errors on the paediatric intensive care unit (August 2012)

Summary

The purpose of this study, published in Intensive Care Medicine, was to establish the baseline prescribing error rate in a tertiary paediatric intensive care unit (PICU) and to determine the impact of a zero tolerance prescribing (ZTP) policy incorporating a dedicated prescribing area and daily feedback of prescribing errors.