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Community child health, public health, and epidemiology
How to avoid paediatric medication errors: a user’s guide to the literature
Abstract
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.1 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.2 This report calls for a review of paediatric medication delivery systems to assess safety for children.
- medication error
- patient safety
- medical error
- information technology