Incidence and Severity of Prescribing Errors in Parenteral Nutrition for Pediatric Inpatients at a Neonatal and Pediatric Intensive Care Unit

• Main Authors: Theresa Hermanspann (Author), Mark Schoberer (Author), Eva Robel-Tillig (Author), Christoph Härtel (Author), Rangmar Goelz (Author), Thorsten Orlikowsky (Author), Albrecht Eisert (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A., 2017-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
• Online Access: Connect to this object online.

ObjectivesPediatric inpatients are particularly vulnerable to medication errors (MEs), especially in highly individualized preparations like parenteral nutrition (PN). Aside from prescribing via a computerized physician order entry system (CPOE), we evaluated the effect of cross-checking by a clinic...