Global trigger tool value for revealing of unwanted events related to medical care in pediatrics

Abstract

Global trigger tool algorithm was described by this article. Global triggers are the special tools to increase inpatients’ safety, which is based on identifying of unwanted events’ high-risk indicators in medical documents. Global trigger tool was initially developed for adult patients and only recent several years there have been … efforts to create special pediatric algorithm. At the moment Global Assessment of Pediatric Patient Safety (GAPPS) is it. There are triggers of that algorithm in the article. Moreover, development process was described and foreign studies with GAPPS were demonstrated here. That tool while have not been implemented into Russian pediatrics. It is more effective approach to identify unwanted events by triggers compared to spontaneous messages in order to increase inpatients’ safety.

Keywords

• drug safety
• unwanted events
• adverse drug reactions
• global trigger tool
• pachmt
• gapps
• pediatrics