Parent’s Involvement in Preventing Errors and Maintaining the Safety of their Hospitalized Child in Pediatric Department

Sondos Bsharat*

Received: February 26, 2018;   Published: March 08, 2018

DOI: 10.26717/BJSTR.2018.02.000827

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Abstract

Medical errors are one of the main potential causes of death during hospitalization [1]. One of the ways recently suggested to cope with the safety challenge is patient empowerment. Recent decades have seen increasing awareness that patients need to participate fully in ensuring their safety, that they require empowerment to contribute to their safety and to prevent errors and injury during their stay in hospital [2,3]. Experts agree that medical errors in children have a higher potential of injury than in the adult population [4]. For example, the rate of medication-related sentinel events is three times higher in hospitalized children than in hospitalized adults. One reason for this is health care providers’ errors in the manual calculation of dosage that is dependent on the child’s weight [5]. In the pediatric context, safety challenges are complex [6]. Therefore, it is important to focus on the parents’ involvement in ensuring the safety of their hospitalized children.

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