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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
2010-5-12
pubmed:abstractText
The authors report on a preliminary analysis of an electronic database that includes more than 32 000 pediatric hospitalizations during 2000-2003. They analyzed pediatric inpatient medication use in a defined geographic area, the catchment area for the Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children, serving Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. The study population included 18 108 female and 14 375 male children. The authors calculated the percentages of children receiving at least 1 administration of each drug. More than 700 drugs were received by children in the study population; 9 were received by at least 10% of all patients. The probability of receiving specific medications varied with patient age, sex, and race, but much further work is needed to quantify the variations. The database has the potential to inform pediatric health services research and pediatric comparative effectiveness research, and it may be the first analysis of hospitalizations for a pediatric population comprising all ages from 0 to 18.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
1555-824X
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:volume
25
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
225-31
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:20460566-Catchment Area (Health), pubmed-meshheading:20460566-Child, pubmed-meshheading:20460566-Child, Preschool, pubmed-meshheading:20460566-Delaware, pubmed-meshheading:20460566-Drug Utilization Review, pubmed-meshheading:20460566-Female, pubmed-meshheading:20460566-Hospitals, Pediatric, pubmed-meshheading:20460566-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:20460566-Infant, pubmed-meshheading:20460566-Infant, Newborn, pubmed-meshheading:20460566-Inpatients, pubmed-meshheading:20460566-Male, pubmed-meshheading:20460566-Maryland, pubmed-meshheading:20460566-Medication Systems, Hospital, pubmed-meshheading:20460566-New Jersey, pubmed-meshheading:20460566-Pennsylvania, pubmed-meshheading:20460566-Pharmaceutical Preparations, pubmed-meshheading:20460566-Quality Indicators, Health Care, pubmed-meshheading:20460566-Referral and Consultation, pubmed-meshheading:20460566-Retrospective Studies
pubmed:articleTitle
Quality care for children: inpatient medication use in a mid-Atlantic hospital system 2000-2003.
pubmed:affiliation
College of Pharmacy, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI 02881, USA. tlasky@mail.uri.edu
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article