Patient Safety in Pediatrics

Sara Albolino; Marco De Luca; Antonino Morabito

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-59403-9_21

Patient Safety in Pediatrics

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In: Textbook of Patient Safety and Clinical Risk Management [Internet]. Cham (CH): Springer; 2021. Chapter 21.

2020 Dec 15.

Authors

Sara Albolino¹, Marco De Luca², Antonino Morabito³

Book Editors

Liam Donaldson¹, Walter Ricciardi², Susan Sheridan³, Riccardo Tartaglia⁴

Affiliations

¹ Centre for Clinical Risk Management and Patient Safety, WHO Collaborating Centre in Human Factors and Communication for the Delivery of Safe and Quality Care, Tuscany Region, Florence, Italy
² Simulation and Risk Management, A. Meyer Children Hospital, Florence, Italy
³ Pediatric Surgery, Meyer Children’s Hospital, University of Florence, Florence, Italy

Book Affiliations

¹ London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
² Department of Hygiene and Public Health, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy
³ The Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine, Evanston, IL, USA
⁴ Italian Network for Safety in Healthcare, Florence, Italy

Excerpt

Since the publication of the 1999 IOM report “To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System,” much has been learned about pediatric patient safety. However, adverse events still affect one-third of all hospitalized children [1]. The main areas of adverse events are hospital-acquired infections, intravenous line complications, surgical complications, and medication errors [2].

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