How to avoid paediatric medication errors: a user's guide to the literature.
The National Health Service, in its report An organisation with memory, has called for a fundamental rethinking of the way the healthcare system learns from error. The NHS further details its goal to reduce serious medication errors by 40% in a second report entitled Building a safer NHS: improving medication safety. This report calls for a review of paediatric medication delivery systems to assess safety for children.
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The Department of Pediatrics, Boston University School of Medicine/Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA 02118, USA. Kathleen.walsh@bmc.org
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D002648:Child; D006701:Home Nursing / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D008508:Medication Errors / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D008509:Medication Systems / Q000592:standards*; D010594:Pharmacies / Q000592:standards; D017751:Safety Management / Q000379:methods; D013222:State Medicine / Q000592:standards; D006113:United Kingdom