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Our Perspectives on Safety section features expert viewpoints on current themes in patient safety, including interviews and written essays published monthly. Annual Perspectives highlight vital and emerging patient safety topics.

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Improving Diagnostic Safety and Quality
Jawad Al-Khafaji, MD, MHSA, Merton Lee, PhD, PharmD, Sarah Mossburg, RN, PhD |

Throughout 2022, AHRQ PSNet has shared research that elucidates the complex nature of misdiagnosis and diagnostic safety. This Year in Review explores recent work in diagnostic safety and ways that greater safety may be promoted using tools developed to... Read More

Technology as a Tool for Improving Patient Safety
Bryan Gale, Sarah Mossburg, A Jay Holmgren, and Susan McBride |

In the past several decades, technological advances have opened new possibilities for improving patient safety. Using technology to digitize healthcare processes has the potential to increase standardization and efficiency of clinical workflows and... Read More

Maternal Safety and Perinatal Mental Health
Christie Allen, MSN, RNC-NIC, CPHQ, C-ONQS, Cindy Manaoat Van, MHSA, Sarah E. Mossburg, RN, PhD |

This piece focuses on perinatal mental health and efforts to improve maternal safety.   

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    • Introducing the New AHRQ WebM&M and AHRQ Patient Safety Network (PSNet)
    Robert M. Wachter, MD |
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    • Five years ago, the Institute of Medicine report, To Err is Human, placed the issue of medical errors squarely in the public eye.(1) The report led to many calls for action, including increased reporting of medical errors and improved education for both...
    In Conversation with…Christopher P. Landrigan, MD
    In October 2004, in what immediately became a landmark paper in patient safety, Dr. Landrigan and his colleagues reported the results of their study on sleep deprivation and medical errors among interns. The AHRQ-funded study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, revealed 36% more serious errors and 5.6 times more serious diagnostic errors among interns working a traditional schedule of more than 24 hours in a row than among interns working shorter shifts (1). We spoke with Dr. Landrigan, an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, about his research and his thoughts on how the study findings might affect residency training in the future.
    Promising Areas for Patient Safety Research
    P. Jeffrey Brady, MD, MPH; William B. Munier, MD, MBA; Irim Azam, MPH |
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    • This piece, written by three leaders in AHRQ's research portfolio, covers future avenues for patient safety research and reviews current AHRQ projects.
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