{"title":"Medicines for children: A global gift of trusted accessible information for parents.","authors":"David P Tuthill, Anna Rossiter, Yincent Tse","doi":"10.1093/pch/pxae059","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>To engender safer medication practice the Government of Canada encourages families to, \"Ask your doctor about your child's medication.\" Medicines for Children (MFC) was established in 2006 when the U.K.'s Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH), Wellchild charity, and the Neonatal and Paediatric Pharmacy Group (NPPG) listened to parents' concerns that they needed better information on children's medicines. Each one of the >200 information sheets available on the website has gone through a standardized, audited development. When launched in 2009 there were 10,500 hits by 7000 unique users which has grown to 4.5 million hits from 3.6 million individuals in 2022. Although the UK has the largest number of users; its worldwide importance is demonstrated by the fact that there are 430,000 users in Canada. For parents of a child who needs to take medicines safely, MFC provides high-quality, reliable family-centred information accessible 24/7 across the globe.</p>","PeriodicalId":19730,"journal":{"name":"Paediatrics & child health","volume":"29 6","pages":"378-381"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8000,"publicationDate":"2024-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11557141/pdf/","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Paediatrics & child health","FirstCategoryId":"3","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1093/pch/pxae059","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"2024/9/1 0:00:00","PubModel":"eCollection","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"PEDIATRICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
To engender safer medication practice the Government of Canada encourages families to, "Ask your doctor about your child's medication." Medicines for Children (MFC) was established in 2006 when the U.K.'s Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH), Wellchild charity, and the Neonatal and Paediatric Pharmacy Group (NPPG) listened to parents' concerns that they needed better information on children's medicines. Each one of the >200 information sheets available on the website has gone through a standardized, audited development. When launched in 2009 there were 10,500 hits by 7000 unique users which has grown to 4.5 million hits from 3.6 million individuals in 2022. Although the UK has the largest number of users; its worldwide importance is demonstrated by the fact that there are 430,000 users in Canada. For parents of a child who needs to take medicines safely, MFC provides high-quality, reliable family-centred information accessible 24/7 across the globe.
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Paediatrics & Child Health (PCH) is the official journal of the Canadian Paediatric Society, and the only peer-reviewed paediatric journal in Canada. Its mission is to advocate for the health and well-being of all Canadian children and youth and to educate child and youth health professionals across the country.
PCH reaches 8,000 paediatricians, family physicians and other child and youth health professionals, as well as ministers and officials in various levels of government who are involved with child and youth health policy in Canada.
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