Anand K J S and Hall R W. Pharmacological therapy for analgesia and sedation in the newborn. Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed 2006;91:448–53. In table 2 of this article both fentanyl and morphine doses were erroneously changed to mg/kg instead of μg/kg. Also, Ametop was spelled incorrectly. We apologise for these errors.