Medication-related emergency department visits and hospital admissions in pediatric patients: a qualitative systematic review.

Peter J. Zed; Christopher Haughn; Karen J L Black; Eleanor A. Fitzpatrick; Stacy Ackroyd-Stolarz; Nancy G. Murphy; Neil J. MacKinnon; Janet A. Curran; Doug Sinclair

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Medication-related emergency department visits and hospital admissions in pediatric patients: a qualitative systematic review.

October 16, 2013

Zed PJ, Haughn C, Black KJL, et al. J Pediatr. 2013;163(2):477-83.

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This systematic review of medication-related emergency department visits or hospitalizations among pediatric patients found that a significant proportion of adverse drug events were preventable.

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