Patterns of medication errors involving pediatric population reported to the French Medication Error Guichet.

Background: Medication error is a global threat to patient safety, particularly in pediatrics. Yet, this issue remains understudied in this population, in both hospital and community settings.

Objectives: To characterize medication errors involving pediatrics reported to the French Medication Error Guichet, and compare them with medication errors in adults, in each of the hospital and community settings.

[Pharmacovigilance and medication errors].

The French national agency for the safety of medicine and healthcare products created in 2005 a Medication Errors Desk which enables health professionals and patients to report directly medication errors without adverse reaction or near misses in addition of reports collected from the Pharmacovigilance System.