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Today's Medical Headlines from AHRQ PSNet

• Doctors make mistakes. Can we talk about that?
• Are they safe in there? Patient safety and trainees in the practice.
• How can we make diagnosis safer?
• Patient safety answers require outreach, in-reach, and partnerships.
• Can we make airway management (even) safer?—lessons from national audit.
• Reducing medical errors and adverse events.
• The effectiveness of integrated health information technologies across the phases of medication management: a systematic review of randomized controlled trials.
• The impact of anti-infective drug shortages on hospitals in the United States: trends and causes.
• Automated identification of extreme-risk events in clinical incident reports.
• Do nurse and patient injuries share common antecedents? An analysis of associations with safety climate and working conditions.
• Intravenous acetaminophen in the United States: iatrogenic dosing errors.
• Preventability of adverse drug events involving multiple drugs using publicly available clinical decision support tools.
• Relating faults in diagnostic reasoning with diagnostic errors and patient harm.
• 'The ABC of Handover': impact on shift handover in the emergency department.
• The AMÉLIE project: failure mode, effects and criticality analysis: a model to evaluate the nurse medication administration process on the floor.
• Variations in surgical outcomes associated with hospital compliance with safety practices.
• The Patient Experience: Improving Safety, Efficiency, and HCAHPS Through Patient-Centered Care.
• Minor mistakes, deadly results.
• Patient Safety During Perinatal and Neonatal Care.
• Patient Safety.
• IHI Global Trigger Tool for Measuring Adverse Events.
• Challenges in Oncology Medication Safety: Identifying Risk and Opportunity.