Working With Doctors and Pharmacists to Help Parents Give Children's Liquid Medicines Safely

NARecruitingINTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment

500

Participants

Timeline

Start Date

April 21, 2022

Primary Completion Date

September 30, 2025

Study Completion Date

September 30, 2025

Conditions
Medication Dosing Error
Interventions
OTHER

EHR-Based Approach

The intervention will be built directly into the EHR. E-prescriptions will be generated with pharmacy instructions for all prescription medications. The intervention will impart: 1) inclusion with e-Rx request for pharmacy to keep metric-only (mL-only) dosing on Rx label and 2) inclusion of guidance on the e-Rx requesting that the pharmacy give an optimal tool based on an algorithm. Algorithm for dosing tool recommendation: 1) for a prescribed dose of \<= 1mL, optimal tool is 1 mL syringe, 2) for \>1 mL to 5 mL, use a 5 mL syringe, 3) for \>5mL to 10mL, use 10 mL syringe.

Trial Locations (3)

10016

NOT_YET_RECRUITING

NYC Health + Hospitals / Bellevue, New York

11220

RECRUITING

NYU Langone Health - Brooklyn, Brooklyn

RECRUITING

Sunset Park Family Health Center at NYU Langone, Brooklyn

All Listed Sponsors
collaborator

Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

FED

lead

NYU Langone Health

OTHER