Frequency of medication error in pediatric anesthesia: A systematic review and meta‐analytic estimate

• Published in: Pediatric anesthesia Vol. 28; no. 12; pp. 1071 - 1077
• Main Authors: Feinstein, Max M., Pannunzio, Anthony E., Castro, Pilar
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: France Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 01.12.2018
• Subjects: Anesthesia; Anesthesia - statistics & numerical data; Anesthetics - administration & dosage; Child; Cohort Studies; Human error; Humans; incident; Medical errors; medication errors; Medication Errors - statistics & numerical data; Pediatrics; Pediatrics - statistics & numerical data; Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic; reporting; research design; Retrospective Studies; Systematic review; research design; pediatrics; medical errors; incident; reporting; anesthesia; medication errors

Summary Background Clinical evidence shows that pediatric anesthesia patients are subject to a higher rate of life‐threatening medical errors than their adult counterparts. Medication error in adult anesthesia is estimated to occur to 1 in 133 anesthetic administrations, but such a figure has not be...