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Question: Among pediatric inpatients what are the prevalence and patterns of exposure to medications?
Question type: Descriptive
Study design: Retrospective cohort
Investigators at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania examined the pattern of exposure to drugs and therapeutic agents among children hospitalized in 2006, excluding healthy newborns. The goals of the study were to determine the most commonly used drugs and therapeutic agents, measure the daily and cumulative medication exposures during a hospital stay, and identify potential differences in the use of drugs and therapeutic agents in children’s hospitals versus general hospitals based on patient characteristics such as age, gender, diagnosis, and length of stay. Data were extracted from two databases, the Pediatric Health Information …
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