Peri‐operative medication safety is complex. Avoidance of medication errors is both system‐
and practitioner‐based, and many departments within the hospital contribute to safe and …

In a 4-year prospective quality assurance study, 315 iatrogenic medication errors were
reported among the 2147 neonatal and paediatric intensive-care admissions, an error rate …

The use of medicines in children is different to adults. Many medicines used for paediatric
patients are either off-label or unlicensed1–3. There is greater variation in the individual …

Background: Although children are at the greatest risk for medication errors, little is known
about the overall epidemiology of these errors, where the gaps are in our knowledge, and to …

A safety‐orientated system of delivering parenteral anaesthetic drugs was assessed in a
prospective incident monitoring study at two hospitals. Anaesthetists completed an incident …

Paediatric patients are more vulnerable to drug administration errors due to a lack of
appropriate drug dosages and strengths for use in this group of patients. Therefore, the aim …

Our aim was to explore the attitudes and beliefs of healthcare professionals relating to the
causes and reporting of medication errors in a UK intensive care unit. Medication errors …

Background Paediatric patients are prone to medication errors, and only a few studies have
explored errors in high-alert medications in children. The present study aimed to investigate …

Intensive Care Med (1999) 25: 341±342© Springer-Verlag 1999 EDITORIAL lem with this
approach, however, is that it assumes that each dose of medication can be associated with …

BACKGROUND: Limited data exist regarding computational drug error rates in anesthesia
residents and faculty. We investigated the frequency and magnitude of computational errors …