Dangerous and preventable ADHD medication errors in children reported to poison control coincide with an increase in diagnoses, a new study found.
medications for children. According to the study authors, in 2019, nearly 10% of children in the United States had been diagnosed with ADHD, and some 3.3 million ― or about 5% of all children in the country ― had received a prescription for an ADHD medication.
The investigators analyzed data from the National Poison Data System from 2000 through 2021 for therapeutic errors associated with ADHD medication among patients younger than 20 years. The researchers identified 124,383 such errors reported to US poison centers during the study period. The frequency increased by 299%.
The most common scenarios were"inadvertently taken or given medication twice" , followed by"inadvertently taken or given someone else's medication" and"wrong medication taken or given" , according to the researchers. Two percent involved mistakes by a pharmacist or nurse.Rine attributed the errors to simple mistakes and said they were likely the product of busy households and distracted caregivers.
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