Sapna Oberoi, Amita Trehan and Ram Kumar Marwaha from the Division of Haematology/Oncology in The Hospital for Sick Children,Toronto, Canadaa nd from the Department of Pediatrics, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India have just published in Pediatric Blood and Cancer an article entitled Medication Errors on Oral Chemotherapy in Children With Acute Lymphoblastic
Leukemia in a Developing Country.
They report 12% of medications errors related to 4.5 % prescription errors and 7.5% administrations errors during the oral treatment of ALL.
On multivariate analysis, education status less than or equal to primary school of the caregiver (OR=3.9, 95% CI 1.3–11.2, P<0.012)> http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pbc.25203/abstract]