Westbrook, Johanna I. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1083-8192
Li, Ling http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1642-142X
Woods, Amanda http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7838-9808
Badgery-Parker, Tim http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1275-1130
Mumford, Virginia http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7915-0615
Merchant, Alison http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8223-0090
Fitzpatrick, Erin
Raban, Magdalena Z. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6995-2849
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Health and Medical Research Council NHMRC (1094878, 1174021, 1143941)
Macquarie University
Article History
Accepted: 7 February 2024
First Online: 5 March 2024
Declarations
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: Open Access funding enabled and organized by CAUL and its Member Institutions. This study was funded by a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Partnership grant with the Sydney Children’s Hospital Network (1094878). JIW is supported by an NHMRC Investigator Leadership Fellowship (1174021), and MZR is supported by an NHMRC ECR Fellowship (1143941).
: JW, MR, and LL conceived of and designed the study. AW and MR participated in data collection and error classification with input from EF and AM; VM and AW led the harm classification process with additional clinical expertise from EF and AM. LL, TB and JW designed the analysis strategy undertaken by TB. All authors provided input on the interpretation of findings. JW prepared the first draft of the manuscript and all authors provided input and approved the final version.
: Johanna I Westbrook, Ling Li, Amanda Woods, Tim Badgery-Parker, Virginia Mumford, Alison Merchant, Erin Fitzpatrick and Magdalena Z. Raban have no competing interests to declare that are relevant to the contents of this article.
: Sydney Children's Hospital Network Human Research Ethics Committee (HREC/15/SCHN/370).
: The datasets generated during the current study are not available to be accessed from researchers as this is not covered by the project’s Human Research Ethics Application.
: Not applicable.
: Individual patient consent to access retrospective medication and clinical records was waived by the Human Research Ethics Committee. Nurses provided written consent to participate in the observations.
: Not applicable.