According to the WHO study, medical errors due to harmful drug administration are three times greater in children than in adults.
Notes on verification
Corroborated by WHO's own 2007 report/news release, an independent BMJ article citing the same statistic, and the underlying Kaushal et al. 2001 JAMA study. Multiple independent secondary sources converge on the same figure. [tier=silver indep_score=0.77 clusters=2 claim_tier=notable | framework convergence=single on WHO's 2007 report, which itself draws the 'three times' figure from the 2001 JAMA Kaushal et al. study on pediatric inpatients (upstreams: WHO 'Promoting Safety of Medicines for Children' (2007), Kaushal R, Bates DW, Landrigan C, et al. 'Medication errors and adverse drug events in pediatric inpatients.' JAMA 2001;285(16):2114-2120) — publishers independent, evidence may not be | kind=attributed eligibility=high]
Sources
- L'Oms sottolinea l'urgenza di garantire la sicurezza dei farmaci per l'infanzia (seed:health_and_medicine)
- https://www.who.int/news/item/21-09-2007-who-stresses-need-to-ensure-the-safety-of-children-s-medicines (corroboration)
- https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2137042 (corroboration)
- https://www.who.int/publications/b/40354 (corroboration)
- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11311101/ (corroboration)