Missed breast cancer: effects of subconscious bias and lesion characteristics. | PSNet

Missed breast cancer: effects of subconscious bias and lesion characteristics. | PSNet

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:

• Classification of opioid dependence, abuse, or overdose in opioid-naive patients as a "Never Event"
• Missed breast cancer: effects of subconscious bias and lesion characteristics
• Fighting a common enemy: a catalyst to close intractable safety gaps

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).