Errors in the prescription, preparation, and administration of medicines in Pediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: systematic review

Objective: To seek evidence on how to prevent potential medication errors in the prescription, preparation, and administration of medications for patients in the Pediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. Method: Systematic review and narrative synthesis. Results: 18 articles were selected with evi...

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Authors: Vieira, Haila Kelli dos Santos, Elmescany, Sâmella Benoliel, Gonçalves, Silvia Tavares, Oliveira, Thais Castro de, Santos, Valéria Regina Cavalcante dos, Soler, Orenzio
Format: article
Status:Published version
Publication Date:2021
Country:Brasil
Institution:Universidade Federal de Itajubá (UNIFEI)
Repository:Research, Society and Development
Language:Portuguese
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/22315
Online Access:https://rsdjournal.org/index.php/rsd/article/view/22315
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Farmácia Hospitalar
Erros de Medicação
Unidade de Tratamento Intensivo Neonatal
Unidade de Tratamento Intensivo Pediátrica
Segurança do paciente.
Hospital Pharmacy
Medication Errors
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
Pediatric Intensive Care Unit
Patient safety.
Farmacia hospitalaria
Errores de medicación
Unidad de cuidado intensivo neonatal
Unidad de Cuidados Intensivos Pediátricos
Seguridad del paciente.
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Summary:Objective: To seek evidence on how to prevent potential medication errors in the prescription, preparation, and administration of medications for patients in the Pediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. Method: Systematic review and narrative synthesis. Results: 18 articles were selected with evidence on how to prevent potential medication errors in the prescription, preparation and administration of medications for patients in the Pediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. The studies are quite varied as to the methodology adopted. There are articles that made systematic, integrative, and narrative reviews, prospective and retrospective cohort studies, observational and economic analysis studies, most of them from European countries, not providing information on equity or subgroup analysis. Conclusion: There is evidence that structural and technological interventions; organizational and professional; regulatory and educational, and interdisciplinary and multifaceted, reduce prescription and preparation errors, drug interactions, adverse drug reactions, improving the quality of services and patient safety.