Poor prescribing is continual

Improving antibiotic prescribing for children in the resource-poor setting

Antibiotics are a critically important part of paediatric medical care in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), where infectious diseases are the leading cause of child mortality. The World Health Organization estimates that >50% of all medicines are prescribed, dispensed or sold inappropriately and that half of all patients do not take their medicines correctly. Given the rising prevalence...

What is a prescribing error?

OBJECTIVE To develop a practitioner led definition of a prescribing error for use in quantitative studies of their incidence. DESIGN Two stage Delphi technique. SUBJECTS A panel of 34 UK judges, which included physicians, surgeons, pharmacists, nurses and risk managers. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES The extent to which judges agreed with a general definition of a prescribing error, and the extent...

All is not well: the continual challenges of bilirubin encephalopathy.

impression that kernicterus has virtually " become extinct " with the near elimination of Rh disease is incorrect. In fact, this neurological condition is experiencing a re-emergence, likely due to earlier hospital discharge and a " more lax " approach to the treatment of neonatal hyperbilirubinemia. 1 Up to one in 700 healthy term newborns may be at risk of kernicterus due to severe hyperbilir...

Prescribing premedication for children before surgery is a tool for research or implementation

 Surgery and anesthesia entail significant mental stress for children and their parents, the result of which remains long after the hospital experience, and even in some cases, phobia, anxiety, hysteria or nightly nightmares, and it also appears negatively. According to studies, while in many cases, nothing can take the place of the support and cuddle of the child’s parents, but this support is...

Recurrent Implantation Failure Is More Frequently Seen in Female Patients with Poor Prognosis