Publications by authors named "M L Di Cecilia"
Objectives: Medication safety represents an important challenge in children. There are limited studies on medication errors in pediatric patients visiting emergency departments. To help bridge this gap, we characterized the medication errors detected in these patients, determining their severity, the stages of the medication process in which they occurred, the drugs involved, and the types and causes associated with the errors.
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- Medication errors in pediatric patients are a significant issue, with a study in 8 Spanish emergency departments identifying 218 errors from nearly 100,000 visits, primarily affecting preschoolers.
- Most errors occurred during the prescribing stage, with common types being dosing mistakes and wrong drug selection, often involving anti-infective medications.
- Key contributing factors included knowledge deficits about medications, deviations from procedures, and lack of patient information, suggesting a need for targeted interventions to improve medication safety in children.
Children under five depend on the caregivers to provide them with nutritious food to combat malnutrition. Several studies have been conducted about malnutrition in children, yet limited attention has been paid to the caregivers. Thus, the study investigated the perceptions of caregivers with regard to non-nutritious foods in rural areas in South Africa.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Impact of acne on the psychological aspect among adolescents and young adults is poorly understood and many times goes unnoticeable.
Aim: To assess body image disturbance, self-esteem, quality of life among adolescents and young adults with acne.
Materials And Methods: A cross sectional survey on 250 adolescents and young adults aged 13-25 years in Dermatology OPD of a tertiary care hospital, was performed.
Bush tea (Athrixia phylicoides DC.) is an aromatic South African indigenous plant used for many decades as a health beverage and medicine. Several studies have extensively investigated wild bush tea's secondary metabolites, but the entire profiling of cultivated bush tea's metabolites is limited in the literature.
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