Publications by authors named "Yolanda Hernandez-Gago"
Introduction: Pediatric patients are more likely to experience medication-related errors and serious associated harms. The identification of high-risk medications (HRM) and their study in special populations, such as children with excess body weight (EBW), is a part of safety improvement strategies.
Objective: To generate, through a consensus technique structured by an interdisciplinary group of pediatricians and hospital pharmacists, an operational and updated list of HRM for hospital use in children over 2 years of age.
Introduction: Pediatric patients are more likely to experience medication-related errors and serious associated harms. The identification of high-risk medications (HRM) and their study in special populations, such as children with excess body weight, is a part of safety improvement strategies.
Objective: To generate, through a consensus technique structured by an interdisciplinary group of pediatricians and hospital pharmacists, an operational and updated list of HRM for hospital use in children over 2 years of age.
Objective: To determine the prevalence of reconciliation errors on admission to hospital in the pediatric onco-hematological population in order to check whether they are similarly susceptible to these reconciliation errors as adults and to describe the characteristics of the patients who suffer them.
Methods: A 12-month prospective, multicentre study of medication reconciliation on admission in the pediatric onco-hematological population to assess the incidence of reconciliation errors and to describe the characteristics of the patients.
Results: Medication reconciliation was performed in 157 patients.
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.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To determine the prevalence of reconciliation errors (RE) on admission to hospital in the paediatric onco-haematological population in order to check whether they are similarly susceptible to these RE as adults and to describe the characteristics of the patients who suffer them.
Methods: A 12-month prospective, multicentre study of medication reconciliation on admission in the paediatric onco-haematological population to assess the incidence of RE and describe the characteristics of the patients in whom they occur.
Results: Medication reconciliation was performed in 157 patients.
Article Synopsis
- 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.
Objective: The main objective was to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of protocol use of palivizumab in premature established by consensus in our Hospital comparing it based on the recommendations of various Scientific Societies. As a secondary objective risk factors and severity of hospitalized patients attending the established protocol in our Hospital were analyzed.
Methods: The study period was 4 seasons with the expanded protocol (retrospective data) versus 2 with restricted or agreed protocol (prospective data).
Background: Pharmaceutical care involves three essential functions: identifying potential and real medication-related problems, solving real medication-related problems and preventing potential medication related problems.
Objective: To describe the profile of prescribing errors detected and prevented by paediatric clinical pharmacists in medical orders for inpatients in Spain.
Settings And Methods: A prospective, descriptive, multicentre epidemiological study on medical orders for inpatients aged 1 day to 18 years, conducted between July and October 2011 at eight hospitals treating paediatric patients.
The main goal of clinical pharmacists is to improve patient care quality by providing individualised care. This is achieved by validating prescriptions and performing pharmacotherapeutic follow-up, leading to effective, safe and efficient drug therapy. However, there is no specific model for medication order validation in paediatrics addressing the distinct issues of paediatric drug use or the greater susceptibility of medication errors occurring in this patient group.
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