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"Culture Clash No More: Integration and Coordination of Disease Treatment and Palliative Care" include the following learning objectives: the limitations of the Medicare hospice benefit; defining three models of palliative care; identifying the benefits and barriers to early palliative care referral and intervention; identifying reasons patients are lost to follow up; recognizing the importance of health literacy to care decisions; listing possible disease treatments that fit into the hospice model.

WebM&M (Morbidity & Mortality Rounds on the Web) features expert analysis of medical errors reported anonymously by readers. Spotlight Cases include interactive learning modules available for CME. Commentaries are written by patient safety experts and published monthly.

About the organization: AHRQ Patient Safety Network (PSNet) is a national web-based resource featuring the latest news and essential resources on patient safety. The site offers weekly updates of patient safety literature, news, tools, and meetings ("Current Issue"), and a vast set of carefully annotated links to important research and other information on patient safety ("The Collection"). As of September 2015, AHRQ PSNet also hosts all previous AHRQ WebM&M (Morbidity and Mortality Rounds on the Web) content, including Cases and Commentaries as well as Perspectives on Safety.