Outpatient anti-epileptic drug prescribing errors in a Children's Hospital: an audit and literature review.

Purpose: Prescription errors are a common and potentially hazardous problem and may cause patient harm. This review evaluates all new anti-epileptic drug (AED) outpatient prescriptions over one year and reviews the subject literature.

Methods: A 12-month retrospective review of all outpatient prescriptions of AEDs within a large Children's Hospital.

Update on antiretroviral therapy.

Combination antiretroviral treatment (cART) has been highly successful in preventing mother to child transmission of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and in reducing mortality and morbidity in HIV infected children. cART is now recommended for all HIV infected infants and selected older children. As these children will need to take cART until adulthood, the aim is to use cART with low risks of virological failure, resistance and toxicity.