Report faults Children's Hospital for medication errors. | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

Report faults Children's Hospital for medication errors. | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

• Newspaper/Magazine Article
 
• Published May 2018

Report faults Children's Hospital for medication errors.

Kowalczyk L. Boston Globe. May 27, 2018.

Pediatric patients are particularly vulnerable to medication errors. This news article reports on serious medication errors that occurred at Children's Hospital in 2017, the underlying system failures that contributed to the incidents, and challenges to implementing new policies meant to prevent similar errors.

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