This is a big concern by many at our children's hospitals and other related organizations across the country, because when it comes down to volume there are more adults to care for than children.

In two words, CAPHC is all about knowledge brokering.

We need to look at it from the needs of the child.

We need to alert the community to a critical blood shortage. Hospitals across the state are requesting more units of blood to meet the needs of accident, surgical and cancer patients.

Our analysis, which includes patients treated in all types of hospitals across the country, shows that dosing errors occur more often in vulnerable patients, such as women, the elderly, or those with kidney insufficiency or low body weight.

Our concern was that what has been a heritage occupation or hobby in this country would be destroyed in the paranoia of the avian flu story.