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Serious Medication Errors in Pediatrics: Evaluation of Prevention Strategies

The recruitment status of this study is unknown because the information has not been verified recently.
Verified May 2010 by Brigham and Women's Hospital.
Recruitment status was  Recruiting
Sponsor:
Collaborators:
National Patient Safety Foundation
Children's Hospital Boston
Information provided by:
Brigham and Women's Hospital
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
NCT00153205
First received: September 8, 2005
Last updated: May 3, 2010
Last verified: May 2010
History of Changes
  Purpose

The purpose of this study is to determine how effective ward-based clinical pharmacists and computerized physician order entry systems are in reducing serious medication errors in pediatric inpatients.


Condition Intervention
Medication Errors
 Device: computerized physician order entry

Study Type: Interventional
Study Design: Allocation: Randomized
Endpoint Classification: Safety Study
Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Masking: Open Label
Primary Purpose: Prevention
Official Title: Serious Medication Errors in Pediatrics: Evaluation of Prevention Strategies

Resource links provided by NLM:

U.S. FDA Resources

Further study details as provided by Brigham and Women's Hospital:

Primary Outcome Measures:
  • serious medication errors

Estimated Enrollment: 1000
Study Start Date: February 2000
Estimated Study Completion Date: February 2011
Estimated Primary Completion Date: February 2011 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
Detailed Description:

This is a prospective cohort study at Children's Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH), before and after the introduction of two distinct interventions. The first intervention at Children's Hospital was the introduction of clinical pharmacists on inpatient pediatric wards to target errors at the stages of physician ordering and nurse transcription. The second intervention is technological: the introduction of physician computer order entry at the BWH neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). This intervention will most effectively target errors at the stage of physician ordering, and secondarily address errors at the stage of pharmacy dispensing and nurse transcription. Data on serious medication errors will be collected pre and post each intervention.

  Eligibility

Genders Eligible for Study:   Both
Accepts Healthy Volunteers:   No
Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Patients in the BWH NICU in the study pods during the study period

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Patients in other units, non-study pods, or outside of the study period
  Contacts and Locations
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00153205

Contacts
Contact: Rainu Kaushal 212-746-1703 rkaushal@partners.org

Locations
United States, Massachusetts
Brigham and Women's Hospital Recruiting
Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02120
Contact: Rainu Kaushal     212-746-1703     rkaushal@partners.org    
Sponsors and Collaborators
Brigham and Women's Hospital
National Patient Safety Foundation
Children's Hospital Boston
Investigators
Principal Investigator: Rainu Kaushal BWH
  More Information

No publications provided

Responsible Party: Rainu Kaushal, Brigham & Women's Hospital
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00153205     History of Changes
Other Study ID Numbers: 2005-P-000322/1; BWH
Study First Received: September 8, 2005
Last Updated: May 3, 2010
Health Authority: United States: Institutional Review Board

Keywords provided by Brigham and Women's Hospital:
medication errors
medical records systems, computerized
patient safety

ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on June 18, 2013