Patient safety on a paediatric neurology ward – prevention of drug administration errors by cooperation with clinical pharmacists

The Role of the Paediatric Clinical Pharmacist in Reducing Medication Errors: A Systematic Literature Review

“…The most common were: provision of information in response to other healthcare professionals' queries (7 studies); cost savings (e.g. €532 per patient saved in a German paediatric neurology ward as a result of preventing wastage of medications) (5); medication reconciliation (3); education of patients/parents in drug administration to facilitate adherence (3).…”

“…2 It decreased the nurse administration error rate from 40.4% to 7.9% of all administrations and parents from 96.6% to 5.6% of all administrations in Germany. 3 Conclusion Paediatric clinical pharmacists use a wide range of initiatives to reduce and prevent medication errors mainly in the US and the UK. Little information is available from other parts of the world where such activities are also likely to be valuable.…”