Pediatric Adverse Drug Reactions: An Observational Cohort Study After Health Care Workers' Training.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Adverse drug reactions (ADRs) in children are an important but underestimated public health issue. This study describes ADRs in a registered pediatric population of Bologna and demonstrates that ADRs might be better detected after health care personnel training.

Methods

A prospective cohort was recruited from July 1, 2016, to June 30, 2019, after health care worker sensitization, and compared to a retrospective cohort enrolled from 2013 to 2016. The ADRs are classified by system organ classes and drugs are categorized according to the Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical classification system.

Results

We retrospectively recruited 78 pediatric patients with ADRs in the 2013 to 2016 period, and we prospectively enrolled 127 children in the 2016 to 2019 period. In b

SUBMITTER: Balsamo C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9088431 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature