AHRQ News Now: New Highlights From AHRQ’s Patient Safety Network

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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:

• Opioid-prescribing patterns of emergency physicians and risk of long-term use
• Use of unsolicited patient observations to identify surgeons with increased risk for postoperative complications
• From board to bedside: how the application of financial structures to safety and quality can drive accountability in a large health care system

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).