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

AHRQ News Now: special Patient Safety Awareness Week issue

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:

• Families as partners in error and adverse event surveillance in hospitals
• Developing and evaluating an automated all-cause harm trigger system
• Meaningful use of health information technology and declines in in-hospital adverse drug events
• The essential role of leadership in developing a safety culture.

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).