TY  - JOUR
TI  - Evaluation of medication errors in pediatric patients using
antibiotics
AB  - Background. Medication errors are frequently seen in pediatric patients. Medication error studies on pediatric
cases were found to not only be limited but also the collaboration of clinical pharmacists and physicians on this
topic was not published in Turkey. This study aimed to identify drug-related problems, especially in antibiotics.
Methods. This study was a point prevalence study with pediatric inpatients that used at least one antibiotic at
a pediatric tertiary care reference hospital on November 16, 2016. Medications of patients were evaluated by
clinical pharmacists in terms of drug-related problems and by physicians in terms of correct indications.
Results. Eighty-nine hospitalized patients were using antibiotics at the time of the study. The median age was
42 months (range: 1-226 months), and 49 (55.1%) of the patients were male. Clinical pharmacists detected a total
of 210 potential drug-drug interactions in 46 (51.7%) patients. Approximately 48.5% of the patients in pediatric
wards and 52.4% of the patients in surgical wards had at least one potential drug-drug interaction. A total of 39
medication errors were identified in 36 patients’ drug orders. Most of the errors (51.3%) were due to dosing and
administration time errors (35.9%). The number of errors per patient in surgical services was higher (0.47) than
the pediatric services (0.42). Forty-three percent of errors were antimicrobial-related, and 70.5% of them were
classified as dosing errors.
Conclusions. Evaluation of patients’ drug usage by a clinical pharmacist in terms of drug-related problems
such as drug interactions, side effects and prescribing errors leads to better pharmaceutical care
AU  - BÜYÜKÇAM, Ayşe
AU  - ÇELİKER, Ayçe
AU  - ÖZDEMİR, Nesligül
AU  - Demirkan, Kutay
AU  - KARA, Emre
AU  - Aykac, Kubra
AU  - Kara, Ates
DO  - 10.24953/turkjped.2021.06.004
PY  - 2021
JO  - Turkish Journal of Pediatrics
VL  - 63
IS  - 6
SN  - 0041-4301
SP  - 970
EP  - 977
DB  - TRDizin
UR  - http://search/yayin/detay/518271
ER  -