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Medication Dosing Errors in Children: Methodological Challenges

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About the Course

This course examines pediatric medication errors and the difficulties inherent in studying and describing them. Issues include national standards of child medication dosing, improving the ability to determine when and how errors are made, and barriers to safe dosing of medications for children.

This course is based on the reading-based online article, Medication Dosing Errors in Children: Methodological Challenges created by McPhillips, Heather et al., Agency for Healthcare Quality and Research

Course Material Author

McPhillips, Heather et al., Agency for Healthcare Quality and Research

McPhillips, Heather et al., Agency for Healthcare Quality and Research authored the material only, and was not involved in creating this CE course. They are identified here for your own evaluation of the relevancy of the material this course is based on.

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Recommended For

This is an intermediate to advanced level course for child and adolescent psychiatrists, psychologists, and counselors; pediatricians, nurse practitioners, other health care professionals.

Course Objectives:

After taking this course, you should be able to:

  1. Recognize discrepancies in dosing information for many pediatric medications.
  2. Cite examples of the methodological challenges faced by researchers.
  3. Apply the information imparted to one's own cases/patients.

Availability

This course is available starting Dec 17th, 2005 and expires Jan 30th, 2019

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Disclosure of Relevant Financial Relationships

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Article: Medication Dosing Errors in Children: Methodological Challenges

Article: Medication Dosing Errors in Children: Methodological Challenges

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Course Retired
Course Number 100293
  • 1 CE credit hour
  • ATCB: 0.75 CE credit hours
  • NBCC: 0.75 CE credit hours
  • NCTRC: 0.75 CE credit hours

  • Reading-Based Online
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