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Retrospective review for medication dose errors in pediatric emergency department medication orders that bypassed pharmacist review.
March 25, 2020
Todd SE, Thompson AJ, Russell WS. Pediatr Emerg Care. 2020:Epub Jan 21.
This study characterized dose errors on medication orders bypassing pharmacist review in a pediatric emergency department. Over 46,000 medication orders were placed in a 12-month period: of those, 32,000 bypassed pharmacist review through an auto verify function in the EHR. A small proportion (<1%) of these orders were deemed potentially erroneous; most were wrong doses (90%) and the rest were the wrong formulation or given to the wrong patient. None of the potential errors resulted in identifiable patient harm.
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