Weight errors in pediatric emergency departments, although uncommon, can lead to potentially harmful medication dosing errors.
May warrant enhanced weight verification protocols in pediatric EDs; retrospective data leaves open intervention efficacy.
Weight errors were uncommon at the 3 emergency departments that we studied, but they led to weight-based medication-dosing errors that had the potential to cause harm.
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