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Weight overestimation increases the risk of medical errors due to incorrect dosing or equipment selection.
Children may also be more sensitive to incorrect dosing amounts, he said.
Conclusions: The Broselow tape overestimates weight by more than 10% in Indian children >10 kg, increasing risk of medical errors due to incorrect dosing or equipment selection.
This is relevant because most paediatric medication errors occur in the Emergency Department and most cases of resultant patient harm are related to incorrect dosing [6 8].
Mehta, RH, Alexander, JH, Van de Werf, F, Armstrong, PW, Pieper, KS, Garg, J, Califf, RM, and Granger, CB. "Relationship of incorrect dosing of fibrinolytic therapy and clinical outcomes". Jama 293, no.
Incorrect dosing of antibiotics occurred in a substantial proportion of cases.
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Four cases received repeated incorrect doses and were therefore excluded from the efficacy analysis (one dog was under-dosed with cyclosporine A for the first 12 days of the study, 2 dogs were under-dosed with cyclosporine A throughout the study, and 1 dog received prednisolone daily instead of every other day during the second week of treatment).
Impurities or incorrect doses are both possibilities.
They may contain inactive substances like tap water or chalk, wrong ingredients, incorrect doses or contaminants.
Dr. Leape and his colleagues help hospitals devise procedures for preventing wrong prescriptions and incorrect doses.
Reasons included incorrect dose, duration and indication – hardly explained by "the patient wanted it so I gave it".
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