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 coworker reports about unprofessional behavior by surgeons with surgical complications in their patients
• How often do prescribers include indications in drug orders? Analysis of 4 million outpatient prescriptions
• Intravenous infusion administration: a comparative study of practices and errors between the United States and England and their implications for patient safety

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).