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Quality Improvement Monitor, April 14, 2005
A new Web site announced April 12 by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is a national "one-stop" portal of resources for improving patient safety and preventing medical errors.
The site, AHRQ's Patient Safety Network, or PSNet, can be found at http://psnet.ahrq.gov.
PSNet is the first comprehensive effort to help healthcare providers, administrators, and consumers learn about all aspects of patient safety, according to an AHRQ statement. The site provides a wide variety of information on patient safety resources, tools, conferences, and more.
PSNet users can customize the site around their interests and needs by creating a "My PSNet" page. For example, a pharmacist interested in how bar coding can help prevent medication errors will be able to set up the site to automatically collect the latest articles, news, and conferences on this topic.
In addition, weekly PSNet updates are available to subscribers on patient safety findings, literature, tools, and conferences, as well as an annotated collection of patient safety journal articles in a "Classics" section.
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