An integrative review of drug errors in critical care.

Medication error is the commonest cause of medical error and the consequences can be grave. This integrative review was undertaken to critically appraise recent literature to further define prevalence, most frequently-implicated drugs and effects on patient morbidity and mortality in the critical care environment. Forty studies were compared revealing a markedly heterogeneous data set with significant variability in reported incidence.

Diagnosis of vascular skin lesions in children: an audit and review.

Vascular skin lesions in children are common, but their management is complicated by the ongoing use of inappropriate and often misleading terms. Inaccurate explanations of the diagnosis and progression of these lesions may cause unnecessary distress. This study describes an audit of vascular lesions in children from one center in which the classification system described by Mulliken and Glowacki was used to establish diagnosis.