AHRQ PSNet’s new Patient Safety Primers provide up-to-date summaries of key concepts in patient safety. Each Primer provides background on the topic’s epidemiology and context, and highlights relevant content from both AHRQ PSNet (i.e., the latest literature and essential resources on safety) and AHRQ WebM&M (i.e., relevant cases with expert commentaries). At this time, available topics are:

• Computerized Provider Order Entry
• Handoffs and Signouts
• Health Care -Associated Infections
• Medication Reconciliation
• Never Events
• Patient Disclosure
• Rapid Response Systems
• Root Cause Analysis

To go to the Patient Safety Primers, click here: http://psnet.ahrq.gov/primerHome.aspx

You can always access them from the AHRQ PSNet home page: http://psnet.ahrq.gov

Thanks for your ongoing commitment to patient safety.

The Editors