Patient safety vulnerabilities for children with intellectual disability in hospital: a systematic review and narrative synthesis.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Adults and children with intellectual disability (ID) are vulnerable to preventable morbidity and mortality due to poor quality healthcare. While poor quality care has been commonly identified among children with ID, evidence of the patient safety outcomes for this group is lacking and therefore explored in this review.

Data sources

Systematic searches of six electronic bibliographic research databases were undertaken from January 2000 to October 2017, in addition to hand searching.

Study selection

Keywords, subject headings and MeSH terms relating to the experience of iatrogenic harm during hospitalisation for children with ID were used. Potentially relevant articles were screened against the eligibility criteria. Non-English language papers were excluded.

SUBMITTER: Mimmo L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5843001 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature