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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:

• Rate of diagnostic errors and serious misdiagnosis-related harms for major vascular events, infections, and cancers: toward a national incidence estimate using the “Big Three”
• Clinical efficacy of combined surgical patient safety system and the World Health Organization's checklists in surgery: a nonrandomized clinical trial
• Personal protective equipment for preventing highly infectious diseases due to exposure to contaminated body fluids in healthcare staff

PSNet has also posted a new issue of WebM&M (Morbidity and Mortality Rounds on the Web), which features expert analysis on medical errors. Topics in this issue explore Opioid-Induced Respiratory Depression Associated with Patient-Controlled Analgesia; Infant Overdose of Sodium Chloride; and Wrong Catheter in the Right Patient.