WebM&M Cases & Commentaries | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

WebM&M Cases & Commentaries | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

Highlights From AHRQ’s Patient Safety Network

AHRQ’s Patient Safety Network (PSNet) highlights journal articles, books and tools related to patient safety. Articles featured this week include:

• Effect of a pediatric early warning system on all-cause mortality in hospitalized pediatric patients
• The surgical safety checklist and patient outcomes after surgery: a prospective observational cohort study, systematic review and meta-analysis
• Communication failure: analysis of prescribers' use of an internal free-text field on electronic prescriptions

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).