Quantitative analysis of medication safety related nursing literatures in our country / 中国实用护理杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To understand the current status of paediatric medication safety,identify the existing problems on nursing research of paediatric medication safety and supply reference for paediatric medication safety.Methods 268 requested research papers published from 2003 to 2013 were retrieved from CNKI and CBM databases,and were analyzed by quantitative methods.Results Among 268 literatures,60.1％ were experience summaries and discussion.72.0％ didn't use any analyzing methods.64.6％ adopted qualitative analysis.Nine categories of these studies contents were concluded,among these,literatures dealing with medication management and medication safety education for parents came the first,accounting for 31.0％ and 15.3％; while those elaborating about information technology and medication safety education of nurses were the least,accounting for 4.1％ and 3.0％.Conclusions Most of the studies were qualitative comments and experience summaries which lack of rigorous designs and statistical methods.The research contents were scattered and difficult to be used in clinical environment.It is strongly recommended that studies on paediatric medication safety should be enhanced.Furthermore,nursing guideline should be constructed by evidence-based methodology to promote domestic paediatric medication safety.