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:

• Scaling safety: the South Carolina Surgical Safety Checklist experience
• Adverse events and patient outcomes among hospitalized children cared for by general pediatricians vs hospitalists
• Adverse Events in Long-Term-Care Hospitals: National Incidence Among Medicare Beneficiaries
• Framework for Effective Board Governance of Health System Quality

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).