A Systematic Review of the Reporting of Adverse Events Associated with Medical Herb use among Children:

Global Advances in Health and Medicine

PaulaGardiner¹ 

关键词: Herbs;    adverse events;    pediatric;    systematic review;   

DOI  :  10.7453/gahmj.2012.071

学科分类：医学（综合）

来源: Sage Journals

【 摘 要 】

Purpose:Information about the safety of herbal medicine often comes from case reports published in the medical literature, thus necessitating good quality reporting of these adverse events. The purpose of this study was to perform a systematic review of the comprehensiveness of reporting of published case reports of adverse events associated with herb use in the pediatric population.Methods:Electronic literature search included 7 databases and a manual search of retrieved articles from inception through 2010. We included published case reports and case series that reported an adverse event associated with exposure to an herbal product by children under the age of 18 years old. We used descriptive statistics. Based on the International Society of Epidemiology's “Guidelines for Submitting Adverse Events Reports for Publication,” we developed and assigned a guideline adherence score (0—17) to each case report.Results:Ninety-six unique journal papers were identified and represented 128 cases. Of the 128 cases...

【 授权许可】

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