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 residency work hour reform with long term quality and costs of care of US physicians: observational study
• Changes in hospital safety following penalties in the US Hospital Acquired Condition Reduction Program: retrospective cohort study
• Investigating the impact of intensive care unit interruptions on patient safety events and electronic health records use: an observational 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).