How often do parents administer medications to their children in hospital? A prospective direct observational study
Johanna I Westbrook, Ling Li, Tim Badgery-Parker, Erin Fitzpatrick, Virginia Mumford, Alison Merchant, Magdalena Z Raban · 2024
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Johanna Westbrook and co-authors ask how often parents give medicine to their children in hospital, in a 2024 study. Parents support their children during hospital stays in many ways. Giving medicine to young children can be hard and stressful. Staff often welcome parent help, yet how often parents actually give doses was unknown.
Observers watched nurses prepare and give thousands of doses on nine wards in an Australian children's hospital. Parents were at the bedside for most doses. They gave about one fifth of the medicines themselves. In many of those cases, the dose was left with parents and no nurse watched. The counts show parent help is common but often unsupervised.
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| CREATOR | Johanna I Westbrook, Ling Li, Tim Badgery-Parker, Erin Fitzpatrick, Virginia Mumford, Alison Merchant, Magdalena Z Raban |
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| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 14 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |