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

AHRQ News Now: blog post on improving primary care; Medicaid and hospital performance; new patient safety research

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:

• Electronic health record usability issues and potential contribution to patient harm
• Antibiotic-resistant infection treatment costs have doubled since 2002, now exceeding $2 billion annually
• Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture: 2018 User Database Report

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).