Introduction Children admitted to paediatric and neonatal intensive care units may be at high
risk from medication errors and preventable adverse drug events. Objective The objective of …

Problems associated with pharmacotherapy (in particular, medication errors and adverse
drug events) are frequent and are associated with increased costs for treatment. Analysis of …

Objectives An evidence report was prepared to assess the evidence base regarding benefits
and costs of health information technology (HIT) systems, that is, the value of discrete HIT …

Objective. Language barriers may lead to medical errors by impeding patient-provider
communication. The objective of this study was to determine whether hospitalized pediatric …

OBJECTIVES. The objectives were (1) to identify the drugs reported most commonly during
NICU care,(2) to examine how different methods of documenting drug use could influence …

1 Pamela H. Mitchell, Ph. D., RN, CNRN, FAAN, FAHA, associate dean for research,
professor of biobehavioral nursing and health systems, and Elizabeth S. Soule …

Medication errors represent one of the most common causes of adverse events in pediatrics
and are widely reported in the literature. Despite the awareness that children are at …

Context Computerized physician order entry (CPOE) with clinical decision support (CDS)
has been promoted as an effective strategy to prevent the development of a drug injury …

Objective Multiplicity in terminology has been suggested as a possible explanation for the
variation in the prevalence of medication errors. So far, few empirical studies have …

Purpose: Electronic health records are expected to improve the quality of care provided to
hospitalized patients. For nurses, use of electronic documentation sources becomes highly …