481 Can a Gentamicin Specific Chart Reduce Neonatal Medication Errors?

Background and aims: Since the onset of incident reporting, medication errors have been noted to be one of the most common reasons for reporting a clinical incident and antibiotics have been shown to be one of the most common drugs associated with medication error in children. This trend was also noted in the neonatology department in Craigavon Area Hospital, a busy district general hospital with 3900 deliveries per year. The aim is to evaluate whether the introduction of a gentamicin prescription, administration and monitoring chart reduces the number of medication errors.