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:

• Racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic disparities in patient safety events for hospitalized children
• Effects of a communication-and-resolution program on hospitals' malpractice claims and costs
• Developing a reporting culture: learning from close calls and hazardous conditions

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).