Epidemiology and potential risk factors of drug‐related problems in <scp>H</scp>ong <scp>K</scp>ong paediatric wards

Abstract

Drug-related problems were common in hospitalized children in this study in Hong Kong; the most frequent were dosing and drug choice problems, and the majority of them were preventable. Polypharmacy and ‘certain infectious and parasitic diseases’ were potential risk factors.