Clinical Pharmacists in Pediatric Units

What is it about?

The 2016 National Survey of Children's Health estimates 37.5% of children in the US have at least 1 chronic condition, and 14.2% have required at least 1 prescription medication for 12 months or longer. Medication error was found 2.6% in hospitalized children of UK, 8.4% in Argentina, 21% in USA, 68% in India, 75% in Nigeria and around 90% in Ethiopia at different point of time. Even though Global under-five mortality rate dropped 53% since 1990, the WHO estimates that approximately 5.9 million children died in 2015, 16 000 every day, and pneumonia contributes about 13%. The clinical decision support system can enable pharmacists to compare and leverage patient data in near real-time from the different systems within the hospital, for example, pharmacy and microbiology. There is a need to expand clinical pharmacy services to cover the ambulatory pediatric cancer patients. Developing pediatric hematology-oncology clinical pharmacy services to cover the outpatient setting is essential to ensure continuity of care and to optimize therapeutics.

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