Background Adverse events in health care entail substantial burdens to health care systems,
institutions, and patients. Retrospective trigger tools are often manually applied to detect …

The fundamental pathophysiology of malignancies is dysregulation of the signalling
pathways. Protein tyrosine kinases (PTKs) are among the enzymes which, if mutated, play a …

Background There is little longitudinal information about the type and frequency of harm
resulting from medication errors among outpatient children with cancer. We aimed to …

Background: Patients may be inadvertently harmed while undergoing dental treatments. To
improve care, we must first determine the types and frequency of harms that patients …

Purpose This study explored the performance of trigger in detecting adverse drug reactions
(ADRs), the confounding variables impairing the causal association of the ADRs, and the …

Introduction: Adverse drug reactions (ADR) are an important cause of morbidity and mortality
in pediatric patients. Due to the disease severity and chemotherapy safety profile, oncologic …

Objective: To describe the frequency and characteristics of adverse drug events in pediatric
inpatients in a Brazilian tertiary teaching hospital. Methods: A cross-sectional study was …

One of the current barriers proposed to avoid possible medication errors, and consequently
harm to patients, is the medication reconciliation, a process in which drugs used by patients …

Background Drug-related iatrogenic effects are common in oncology because
chemotherapy is toxic. The evaluation of the application of the guidelines may be a way to …

Objective Adverse drug events (ADEs) in the outpatient pediatric pharmacotherapy can be
serious and lead to inpatient admissions. Recent research only focused on ADE …