Interventions to reduce medication prescribing errors in a paediatric cardiac intensive care unit

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1083-1090

  Burmester, Margarita K ^a,b   Dionne, Roger ^a   Thiagarajan, Ravi R ^a   Laussen, Peter C ^a  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b ROYAL BROMPTON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adverse drug event; Cardiac intensive care unit; Computerized; Medication error; Paediatric; Prescribing error

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; CAPTOPRIL; CEFAZOLIN; CISATRACURIUM; DIGOXIN; DOPAMINE; ESMOLOL; FUROSEMIDE; GLUCONATE CALCIUM; KETOROLAC; MAGNESIUM SULFATE; METOCLOPRAMIDE; MIDAZOLAM; MILRINONE; MORPHINE; ONDANSETRON; PARACETAMOL; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; RANITIDINE; SALBUTAMOL;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL EDUCATION; DRUG SURVEILLANCE PROGRAM; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MEDICATION ERROR; PHYSICIAN; PRESCRIPTION;

CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DRUG PRESCRIPTIONS; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, PEDIATRIC; INTERVENTION STUDIES; MEDICATION ERRORS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 46149102661     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00134-008-1054-3     Document Type: Article

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