Reducing the burden of iatrogenic harm in children

Carson-Stevens, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7580-7699, Edwards, Adrian G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6228-4446, Panesar, Sukhmeet, Parry, Gareth, Rees, Philippa, Sheikh, Aziz and Donaldson, Liam 2015. Reducing the burden of iatrogenic harm in children. The Lancet 385 (9978) , pp. 1593-1594. 10.1016/S0140-6736(14)61739-6

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Abstract

In 2013, as many as 6·3 million children worldwide died before their fifth birthday.1 Children have an increased risk of health-care-related harm because of factors including the complexity of prescribing and dispensing of drugs, a reduced physiological reserve compared with adults, and dependency on others (ie, parents and health-care providers) to recognise the emergence of a hazardous situation.2 Despite these factors, little research has been done of the contributions of substandard care and iatrogenic harm to deaths in childhood.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Medicine
Publisher:	Elsevier
ISSN:	0140-6736
Last Modified:	31 Oct 2022 10:45
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/86024

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