Open AccessUsing a Trigger Tool to Assess Adverse Drug Events in a Children's Rehabilitation Hospital
Author(s) -
Kelly J. Burch
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
the journal of pediatric pharmacology and therapeutics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.456
H-Index - 15
eISSN - 2331-348X
pISSN - 1551-6776
DOI - 10.5863/1551-6776-16.3.204
Subject(s) - medicine , tertiary care , polypharmacy , adverse drug event , adverse effect , rehabilitation , emergency medicine , pediatric hospital , pediatrics , medical emergency , intensive care medicine , physical therapy
Some of the most common actions after an adverse drug event (ADE) have been carefully listed, studied, and described as "triggers." Trigger-based tools for finding and evaluating ADEs have been validated in varied patient populations. A recent article described the frequency and severity of ADEs in hospitalized children in tertiary care children's hospitals. Our objective was to discover whether children in a pediatric rehabilitation setting are at higher risk for ADEs because of polypharmacy, or at a lower risk because of relative overall clinical stability.