Lack Of Training For Children’s Medicines Prescribing May Increase Risk Of Error

Current training and assessment in curbing common pitfalls in medicines prescribing for children is inadequate, suggests research published ahead of print in Archives of Disease in Childhood.The authors, from The University of Nottingham, base their findings on a trawl of published research on techniques to reduce prescribing errors and a survey of healthcare professionals and medicines researchers working in child health on training methods.

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Filed under: Medical Students on January 29th, 2008