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Assessing controlled substance prescribing errors in a pediatric teaching hospital: an analysis of the safety of analgesic prescription practice in the transition from the hospital to home.

Lee BH, Lehmann CU, Jackson E, et al. Assessing controlled substance prescribing errors in a pediatric teaching hospital: an analysis of the safety of analgesic prescription practice in the transition from the hospital to home. The journal of pain : official journal of the American Pain Society. 2009;10(2):160-6. doi:10.1016/j.jpain.2008.08.004.

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May 6, 2009
Lee BH, Lehmann CU, Jackson E, et al. The journal of pain : official journal of the American Pain Society. 2009;10(2):160-6.
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Medication errors are a common problem in pediatric outpatients, and high-alert medications such as opioid analgesics are a major cause of emergency department visits in both children and adults. This study evaluated the quality of analgesic prescriptions in patients being discharged from a pediatric teaching hospital. Most prescriptions contained at least one error, including frequent use of error-prone abbreviations and failure to use weight-based dosing, and 3% of prescriptions were judged to have the potential for serious patient harm. Computerized provider order entry (CPOE) has been advocated as a means of preventing medication errors in children, but in a prior study, CPOE actually failed to reduce dosing errors in children.

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Lee BH, Lehmann CU, Jackson E, et al. Assessing controlled substance prescribing errors in a pediatric teaching hospital: an analysis of the safety of analgesic prescription practice in the transition from the hospital to home. The journal of pain : official journal of the American Pain Society. 2009;10(2):160-6. doi:10.1016/j.jpain.2008.08.004.