Implications for practice and research

• Medication errors can occur throughout many complex steps.

• Children are exposed to a higher risk of harm than adults when it comes to medication errors.

• High-quality evidence for interventions that reduce medication errors in children on rounds is lacking.

Context

King et al conducted a systematic review of interventions aimed at reducing medication errors during inpatient rounds in children’s hospitals.1 Medication errors in hospitals may arise at many points in a complicated cascade of steps before reaching the patient; from prescribing, dispensing, …