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

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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:

• Effects of a multifaceted medication reconciliation quality improvement intervention on patient safety: final results of the MARQUIS study
• Opioid prescribing in the United States before and after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's 2016 opioid guideline
• Crossing the Global Quality Chasm: Improving Health Care Worldwide

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).