Safer Use of Medication in Pediatric Patients at Home

Miguel Hernández University of Elche

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Medication Errors and Other Product Use Errors and Issues

Treatments: Other: Study group

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04598139

PI18/00739

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study aims:

• to develop a web-based notification system for caregivers of pediatric patients that allows to report medication errors and, based on this notification, and to share experiences and alerts about common errors of patients.
• to assess de user satisfaction and perceived usefulness of the system.

Participants:

Parents with children who have required drug treatment in the last two months, who have an Internet connection and who agree to participate in the study.

Sample size: 62 participants

Main outcome variable: overall satisfaction

Enrollment: 62 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 80 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• To care children aged under 14 years who have required drug treatment in the last two months
• To have an Internet connection
• To agree to participate in the study.
• To be registered in the study web-based notification system
• Age > 17 years

Exclusion criteria

• To be health provider
• To care children in residence for minors.
• To care children with a life expectancy of less than 2 years.

Trial design

62 participants in 1 patient group

Study group

Treatment:

Other: Study group