Medications for Children Receiving Intensive Care: A National Sample.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To examine medication administration records through electronic health record data to provide a broad description of the pharmaceutical exposure of critically ill children.

Design

Retrospective cohort study using the Cerner Health Facts database.

Setting

United States.

Patients

A total of 43,374 children 7 days old to less than 22 years old receiving intensive care with available pharmacy data.

Interventions

None.

Measurements and main results

A total of 907,440 courses of 1,080 unique medications were prescribed with a median of nine medications (range, 1-99; 25-75th percentile, 5-16) per patient. The most common medications were acetaminophen, ondansetron, and morphine. Only 45 medications (4.2%) were prescribed to more than 5% of pati

SUBMITTER: Heneghan JA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7483286 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature