What causes prescribing errors in children? Scoping review.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

(1) Systematically assemble, analyse and synthesise published evidence on causes of prescribing error in children. (2) Present results to a multidisciplinary group of paediatric prescribing stakeholders to validate findings and establish how causative factors lead to errors in practice.

Design

Scoping review using Arksey and O'Malley's framework, including stakeholder consultation; qualitative evidence synthesis.

Methods

We followed the six scoping review stages. (1) Research question-the research question was 'What is known about causes of prescribing error in children?' (2) Search strategy-we searched MEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL (from inception to February 2018), grey literature and reference lists of included studies. (3) Article selection-all published evid

SUBMITTER: Conn RL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6701596 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature