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.

Central venous catheter infection with Bacillus pumilus in an immunocompetent child: a case report.

Background: Bacillus organisms are common laboratory contaminants. The majority of Bacillus bacteraemias are transient and not clinically significant. Clinically significant infection due to Bacillus species is rare and mostly due to Bacillus cereus infections in immuno-compromised hosts.