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:

• What quality and safety of care for patients admitted to clinically inappropriate wards: a systematic review
• Reducing surgical mortality in Scotland by use of the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist
• What US hospitals are currently doing to prevent common device-associated infections: results from a national survey

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).