BACKGROUND Underreporting of energy intake is associated with self-reported diet measures and appears to be selective according to personal characteristics. Doubly labeled water is an unbiased reference biomarker for energy intake that may be used to assess underreporting. OBJECTIVE Our objective was to determine which factors are associated with underreporting of energy intake on food-freque...

OBJECTIVE to meta-analyze studies that have assessed the medication errors rate in pediatric patients during prescribing, dispensing, and drug administration. SOURCES searches were performed in the PubMed, Cochrane Library, and Trip databases, selecting articles published in English from 2001 to 2010. SUMMARY OF THE FINDINGS a total of 25 original studies that met inclusion criteria were se...

• Objective: To describe efforts in medication error prevention and reduction at an academic children’s

The purpose of these guidelines is to assist practitioners in improving their antineoplastic medication-use system and error-prevention programs. They supplement ASHP’s Guidelines on Preventing Medication Errors in Hospitals and address error prevention within diverse health care settings.’ Further, these guidelines provide updated general guidance to include a standard definition of a “medicat...

Abstract: Objectives: To evaluate the effectiveness of Patient Information Leaflet (PIL) based educational intervention to improve liquid medication measuring ability parents/ caregivers. Simultaneously, assess parents’ by dosing instrument type, and identify association various factors with errors. Materials Methods: A multi-centric, randomized controlled interventional study conducted at 2 pe...

Background: Medication interactions are associated with various unwanted adverse drug reactions. Medication Reconciliation involves a process in which a complete list of patient's previously prescribed medications are recorded and subsequently evaluated within the context of concomitantly prescribed medications and present medical condition during the hospitalization. Method: Medical records ...