Discover the latest on patient safety and get CME credits on PSNet
June 28, 2024
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The UC Davis Center for Healthcare Policy and Research (CHPR) recently won a $4 million award to continue editing and developing content for the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s (AHRQ) Patient Safety Network (PSNet) for another five years.
PSNet is a federal website featuring the latest news and resources to improve patient safety and prevent medical errors. It is a great resource for patients, educators, researchers, clinicians, consumers and policymakers worldwide. The website receives over 3.3 million page views annually.
The center assumed its editorial leadership role for PSNet in 2019. The co-editors in chief are UC Davis Professors Patrick Romano and Deb Bakerjian, and Sarah Mossburg of the American Institute for Research.
“We are very proud at UC Davis Health to be entrusted with providing quality patient safety content and editing PSNet,” said Romano. Romano is a professor in the Departments of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics and member of the CHPR leadership team. “Our editorial team of faculty from many clinical departments brings a wealth of experience and deep expertise, ensuring the content is accurate, reliable and relevant.”
Our editorial team of faculty from many clinical departments brings a wealth of experience and deep expertise, ensuring the content is accurate, reliable and relevant.”—Patrick Romano, a professor in the UC Davis School of Medicine, is a co-editor in chief of PSNet.
What is Patient Safety Network?
PSNet offers resources on patient safety research, innovations, toolkits and training. PSNet resources include:
- Weekly updates: the latest information on patient safety literature, news, tools and events.
- Morbidity & Mortality on the Web (WebM&M) cases and commentaries: expert analysis of medical errors reported by readers. They include interactive learning modules with free Continuing Medical Education (CME) and Maintenance of Certification (MOC) credit.
- Perspectives on safety: expert viewpoints on current themes in patient safety, including interviews and essays published monthly.
- Patient safety primers: guides for key topics in patient safety.
PSNet also includes a curated library that highlights the many ways patients can be partners in medical safety to prevent errors and advocate for better health care.
Contributing content and certified Continuing Medical Education
The editorial team writes, updates and maintains the website’s content. UC Davis Health faculty and staff have contributed extensively to PSNet content. “PSNet has provided a fabulous opportunity for UC Davis clinical providers and faculty to contribute their knowledge and expertise to improving patient safety, while also expanding their own scholarship,” said Bakerjian. She is a professor in the Family Caregiving Institute at the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing at UC Davis.
In the last five years, more than 200 authors from the Schools of Medicine and Nursing, and from Pharmacy, wrote WebM&M and Spotlight Case commentaries. Of these, 35 were residents, fellows and medical students. Also, 23 authors wrote primers on topics such as telehealth and patient safety and burnout.
The editors welcome case submissions and other contributions from UC Davis Health students, trainees, staff and faculty. Cases can be submitted at https://psnet.ahrq.gov/submit-case-landing.
