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An intervention to decrease narcotic-related adverse drug events in children's hospitals
Sharek PJ, McClead RE Jr, Taketomo C, et al. An intervention to decrease narcotic-related adverse drug events in children's hospitals. Pediatrics. 2008 Oct;122(4):e861-866.

The most common adverse drug events (ADEs) in hospitalized children are related to narcotics. Large-scale collaborative quality improvement efforts to decrease narcotic-related ADEs in pediatrics have not been widely published. This article reports on fourteen children’s hospitals in an improvement collaborative that implemented a collection of expert panel-defined best practices and reduced pediatric narcotic-related adverse drug events by 67 percent.



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