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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:

• How do nurses use early warning scoring systems to detect and act on patient deterioration to ensure patient safety? A scoping review
• Transition planning for the senior surgeon: guidance and recommendations from the Society of Surgical Chairs
• Transcription errors of blood glucose values and insulin errors in an intensive care unit: secondary data analysis toward electronic medical record–glucometer interoperability

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).