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New Highlights from AHRQ’s Patient Safety Network

AHRQ’s Patient Safety Network (PSNet), which highlights journal publications, books and tools related to patient safety, has featured a new set of articles including:

• Improving communication with primary care physicians at the time of hospital discharge
• Screening for medication errors using an outlier detection system
• Finding diagnostic errors in children admitted to the PICU

Review additional new publications in PSNet’s Current Issue or access recent cases and commentaries in AHRQ’s WebM&M (Morbidity and Mortality Rounds on the Web).

Patient Safety Primers

• Medication Errors
• Never Events
• Root Cause Analysis
• Safety Culture
• Nursing and Patient Safety
• Wrong-Site, Wrong-Procedure, and Wrong-Patient Surgery