Reducing Prescribing Errors in Paediatric Patients by Assessment and Feedback Targeted at Prescribers

Table 1

Result of assessment of prescribing of paediatric doctors.

	Middle grade (𝑛=8)	Junior grade (𝑛=8)
Total number of errors^1	45	65
Major errors^2	10	27
Potentially fatal errors relating to allergy	7	7

¹Errors affecting dose and frequency, transcribing errors regarding duration, wrong application, missing dose, unit, timing or signature, illegible writing, wrong spelling.
²Defined as prescribing a drug the patient is allergic to, prescription of the wrong dose or unit, guessing the dose a patient has been on, not prescribing a required drug, and choice of the wrong frequency for application of a drug.