Children's well-being and safety are a priority to be addressed and shared by healthcare providers and face ethical issues that concern many critical areas of children's global health, including clinical care, medical education and training, health system improvement, and research. Inpatient safety pediatric risk management has received little attention in the research literature. Risk management guidance tools identify potential safety hazards and promote programs and pathways to ensure children's safety and high-level quality care. To avoid adverse events/errors is vital to assess if and what kind of clinical practice guidelines were used daily. The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, despite its minimal effects on children, emphasized the efforts needed in the matter of children's policy and safety.
The COVID-19 pandemic emphasizes the importance of implementing pediatric risk management activities, coupled with the need to face ethical questions. Children's hospitals had to carry out screening strategies, ensure patients' isolation, and promote social distancing and hand-wash among children and caregivers. Moreover, the prospect of vaccinating children against COVID-19 may raise general ethical dilemmas about whether such vaccination can be considered mandatory, parental informed consent and, decision-making capacity in children and adolescents. Pandemic and lockdown periods also increase youth suicidal ideation and behavior. Accordingly, in light of pediatric risk management, emergency department (ED) and community pediatricians need to evaluate young patients with a suicide-rating scale and provide apposite safety steps. Hence, pediatricians had to deal with new ethical questions and mapped pathways during the pandemic to improve children's safety, often reorganizing the entire healthcare system. Such efforts and changes should not be limited only to the pandemic period, but they can be the stepping-stone for developing new health policies for children's safety.
The current Research Topic aims to collect original, uni- and multidisciplinary contributions regarding the determinants and characteristics of possible medical harm in children inquiring on the implementation of pediatric risk management practices in hospitals and pediatrician community services. We also encourage contributions to ethical issues of children's healthcare, including evaluating their decision-making capacity and parents' informed consent raised by the COVID-19 pandemic and the next immunity phase. Comments about future perspectives of children's healthcare policy are welcome indeed.
Children's well-being and safety are a priority to be addressed and shared by healthcare providers and face ethical issues that concern many critical areas of children's global health, including clinical care, medical education and training, health system improvement, and research. Inpatient safety pediatric risk management has received little attention in the research literature. Risk management guidance tools identify potential safety hazards and promote programs and pathways to ensure children's safety and high-level quality care. To avoid adverse events/errors is vital to assess if and what kind of clinical practice guidelines were used daily. The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, despite its minimal effects on children, emphasized the efforts needed in the matter of children's policy and safety.
The COVID-19 pandemic emphasizes the importance of implementing pediatric risk management activities, coupled with the need to face ethical questions. Children's hospitals had to carry out screening strategies, ensure patients' isolation, and promote social distancing and hand-wash among children and caregivers. Moreover, the prospect of vaccinating children against COVID-19 may raise general ethical dilemmas about whether such vaccination can be considered mandatory, parental informed consent and, decision-making capacity in children and adolescents. Pandemic and lockdown periods also increase youth suicidal ideation and behavior. Accordingly, in light of pediatric risk management, emergency department (ED) and community pediatricians need to evaluate young patients with a suicide-rating scale and provide apposite safety steps. Hence, pediatricians had to deal with new ethical questions and mapped pathways during the pandemic to improve children's safety, often reorganizing the entire healthcare system. Such efforts and changes should not be limited only to the pandemic period, but they can be the stepping-stone for developing new health policies for children's safety.
The current Research Topic aims to collect original, uni- and multidisciplinary contributions regarding the determinants and characteristics of possible medical harm in children inquiring on the implementation of pediatric risk management practices in hospitals and pediatrician community services. We also encourage contributions to ethical issues of children's healthcare, including evaluating their decision-making capacity and parents' informed consent raised by the COVID-19 pandemic and the next immunity phase. Comments about future perspectives of children's healthcare policy are welcome indeed.
