Fatal mistakes: why do ten-fold medication errors in children keep happening?

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Fatal mistakes: why do ten-fold medication errors in children keep happening?

May 5, 2021

Parry C. The Pharmaceutical Journal. April 22 2021.

Weight-based prescribing in children harbors challenges to accurate medication dosing. This story discusses an examination of factors contributing to ten-fold medication errors in pediatric care. The author summarizes an ongoing investigation which has identified polypharmacy and information system weaknesses as being among the contributors to the problem.

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