NCT00153205

Serious Medication Errors in Pediatrics: Evaluation of Prevention Strategies

• Status: Withdrawn
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 0 (actual)
• Sponsor: Brigham and Women's Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine how effective ward-based clinical pharmacists and computerized physician order entry systems are in reducing serious medication errors in pediatric inpatients.

Detailed description

This is a prospective cohort study at Children's Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH), before and after the introduction of two distinct interventions. The first intervention at Children's Hospital was the introduction of clinical pharmacists on inpatient pediatric wards to target errors at the stages of physician ordering and nurse transcription. The second intervention is technological: the introduction of physician computer order entry at the BWH neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). This intervention will most effectively target errors at the stage of physician ordering, and secondarily address errors at the stage of pharmacy dispensing and nurse transcription. Data on serious medication errors will be collected pre and post each intervention.

Conditions

• Medication Errors

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	computerized physician order entry

Timeline

• Start date: 2000-02-01
• Primary completion: 2006-05-01
• Completion: 2007-05-01
• First posted: 2005-09-12
• Last updated: 2017-02-16

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States