Pharmacists’ Approach to Optimise Safe Medication Use in Paediatric Patients

Paediatric patients are unique, yet challenging patients to care for by pharmacists. Paediatric medicine use requires special consideration. Pharmacists play an important role in educating and counselling patients, carers, and healthcare workers. Further, pharmacists have the necessary knowledge and...

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Autores principales: Keuler, Nicole, Bouwer, Annatjie, Coetzee, Renier
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8628964/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34842828
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/pharmacy9040180
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description Paediatric patients are unique, yet challenging patients to care for by pharmacists. Paediatric medicine use requires special consideration. Pharmacists play an important role in educating and counselling patients, carers, and healthcare workers. Further, pharmacists have the necessary knowledge and skills to optimise safe medicine use in paediatric patients. This article provides basic principles for safe practices in paediatric medicine by following the nine rights of medication administration.
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spelling pubmed-86289642021-11-30 Pharmacists’ Approach to Optimise Safe Medication Use in Paediatric Patients Keuler, Nicole Bouwer, Annatjie Coetzee, Renier Pharmacy (Basel) Review Paediatric patients are unique, yet challenging patients to care for by pharmacists. Paediatric medicine use requires special consideration. Pharmacists play an important role in educating and counselling patients, carers, and healthcare workers. Further, pharmacists have the necessary knowledge and skills to optimise safe medicine use in paediatric patients. This article provides basic principles for safe practices in paediatric medicine by following the nine rights of medication administration. MDPI 2021-11-03 /pmc/articles/PMC8628964/ /pubmed/34842828 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/pharmacy9040180 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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