AHRQ News Now: safety gaps with specialty drugs; progress with EHRs; antidepressants’ effect on painkillers

AHRQ News Now: safety gaps with specialty drugs; progress with EHRs; antidepressants’ effect on painkillers

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:

• Association of pharmaceutical industry marketing of opioid products with mortality from opioid-related overdoses
• A partially structured postoperative handoff protocol improves communication in 2 mixed surgical intensive care units: findings from the Handoffs and Transitions in Critical Care (HATRICC) prospective cohort study
• Appropriateness of outpatient antibiotic prescribing among privately insured US patients: ICD-10-CM based cross sectional 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).