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

AHRQ News Now: racial disparities in infant mortality and low birth weight; improving surgical care and recovery; consumer assessment surveys

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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:

• Patient safety theme issue (Health Affairs)
• Nurses' and patients' appraisals show patient safety in hospitals remains a concern
• Association of nurse workload with missed nursing care in the neonatal intensive care unit

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)