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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:

• An electronic health record–based real-time analytics program for patient safety surveillance and improvement
• Assessment of incorrect surgical procedures within and outside the operating room. A follow-up study from US Veterans Health Administration medical centers
• Prevalence of potentially inappropriate prescribing in older people in primary care and its association with hospital admission: longitudinal study

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).