Monday, April 25, 2005

AHRQ's Patient Safety Network

A new website has been created by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) expressly as one place that health care providers, administrators, and consumers can go to learn about all aspects of patient safety.

PSNet (Patient Safety Network) provides a wide variety of information on patient safety resources, tools, conferences, and more. It is also customizable for your own information preferences. This allows you to change create a web page that gives you specific information about your topics of interest.

There's books, journal articles, we resources, newspaper articles, audiovisuals. And within each category, there are more links to narrow the information that has been retreived. Each item is further categorized by diving you the Resource Type ; the Target Audience; and the Approach to Improving Safety.

Go to http://psnet.ahrq.gov/ to see all the information it holds. It is quite complete.