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Editorials

  • Safety management: Medical applications of industrial safety science

    • T W van der Schaaf
    Qual Saf Health Care 2002;11:3 205-206 doi:10.1136/qhc.11.3.205

  • News media: Breaking bad news

    • M L Millenson
    Qual Saf Health Care 2002;11:3 206-207 doi:10.1136/qhc.11.3.206

Commentaries

  • Guideline adherence: Guideline adherence rates and interprofessional variation

    • R Peveler
    Qual Saf Health Care 2002;11:3 208 doi:10.1136/qhc.11.3.208

  • Length of in-hospital stay: Length of in-hospital stay and its relationship to quality of care

    • A Clarke
    Qual Saf Health Care 2002;11:3 209-210 doi:10.1136/qhc.11.3.209

  • Monitoring of rare events: Pediatric Peri-Operative Cardiac Arrest (POCA) Registry

    • S Jones,
    • A Raffles
    Qual Saf Health Care 2002;11:3 210-211 doi:10.1136/qhc.11.3.210

  • National Service Frameworks: National Service Frameworks as tools for quality improvement

    • K Checkland,
    • M Marshall
    Qual Saf Health Care 2002;11:3 211-212 doi:10.1136/qhc.11.3.211

  • Quality improvement reports: Can the sum of projects end up in a program? The strategies that shape quality of care research

    • Vahé A Kazandjian
    Qual Saf Health Care 2002;11:3 212-213 doi:10.1136/qhc.11.3.212

Original Articles

  • Guideline adherence rates and interprofessional variation in a vignette study of depression

    • H Tiemeier,
    • W J de Vries,
    • M van het Loo,
    • J P Kahan,
    • N Klazinga,
    • R Grol,
    • H Rigter
    Qual Saf Health Care 2002;11:3 214-218 doi:10.1136/qhc.11.3.214

  • Relationship between hospital length of stay and quality of care in patients with congestive heart failure

    • M P Kossovsky,
    • F P Sarasin,
    • P Chopard,
    • M Louis-Simonet,
    • P Sigaud,
    • T V Perneger,
    • J-M Gaspoz
    Qual Saf Health Care 2002;11:3 219-223 doi:10.1136/qhc.11.3.219

  • Setting priorities for patient safety

    • W B Runciman,
    • M J Edmonds,
    • M Pradhan
    Qual Saf Health Care 2002;11:3 224-229 doi:10.1136/qhc.11.3.224

  • Secondary prevention following myocardial infarction: evidence from an audit in South Wales that the National Service Framework for coronary heart disease does not address all the issues

    • P Underwood,
    • P Beck
    Qual Saf Health Care 2002;11:3 230-232 doi:10.1136/qhc.11.3.230

  • A preliminary taxonomy of medical errors in family practice

    • S M Dovey,
    • D S Meyers,
    • R L Phillips, Jr,
    • L A Green,
    • G E Fryer,
    • J M Galliher,
    • J Kappus,
    • P Grob
    Qual Saf Health Care 2002;11:3 233-238 doi:10.1136/qhc.11.3.233

Quality improvement report

  • Quality improvement for patients with hip fracture: experience from a multi-site audit

    • C Freeman,
    • C Todd,
    • C Camilleri-Ferrante,
    • C Laxton,
    • P Murrell,
    • C R Palmer,
    • M Parker,
    • B Payne,
    • N Rushton
    Qual Saf Health Care 2002;11:3 239-245 doi:10.1136/qhc.11.3.239

Organisational matters: national initiatives

  • Lessons from the Australian Patient Safety Foundation: setting up a national patient safety surveillance system—is this the right model?

    • W B Runciman
    Qual Saf Health Care 2002;11:3 246-251 doi:10.1136/qhc.11.3.246

  • Unexpected cardiac arrest among children during surgery: a North American registry to elucidate the incidence and causes of anesthesia related cardiac arrest

    • K L Posner,
    • J Geiduschek,
    • C M Haberkern,
    • C Ramamoorthy,
    • A Hackel,
    • J P Morray
    Qual Saf Health Care 2002;11:3 252-257 doi:10.1136/qhc.11.3.252

Safer prescribing

  • Learning from prescribing errors

    • B Dean
    Qual Saf Health Care 2002;11:3 258-260 doi:10.1136/qhc.11.3.258

  • Information technology and medication safety: what is the benefit?

    • R Kaushal,
    • D W Bates
    Qual Saf Health Care 2002;11:3 261-265 doi:10.1136/qhc.11.3.261

  • Commentary

    • N Barber
    Qual Saf Health Care 2002;11:3 265 doi:10.1136/qhc.11.3.265

Learning from other industries

  • Lessons learned from non-medical industries: root cause analysis as culture change at a chemical plant

    • J S Carroll,
    • J W Rudolph,
    • S Hatakenaka
    Qual Saf Health Care 2002;11:3 266-269 doi:10.1136/qhc.11.3.266

Quality improvement research

  • Evaluation of quality improvement programmes

    • J Øvretveit,
    • D Gustafson
    Qual Saf Health Care 2002;11:3 270-275 doi:10.1136/qhc.11.3.270

Consumers' view

  • Patients' eye view

    Qual Saf Health Care 2002;11:3 276 doi:10.1136/qhc.11.3.276

Classic paper

  • Preventable anesthesia mishaps: a study of human factors*

    • Jeffrey B Cooper,
    • Ronald S Newbower,
    • Charlene D Long,
    • Bucknam McPeek
    Qual Saf Health Care 2002;11:3 277-282 doi:10.1136/qhc.11.3.277

  • Commentary

    • E C Pierce, Jr
    Qual Saf Health Care 2002;11:3 282-283 doi:10.1136/qhc.11.3.282

Effectiveness bulletin

  • Interventions for the treatment and management of chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis

    • A-M Bagnall,
    • P Whiting,
    • R Richardson,
    • A J Sowden
    Qual Saf Health Care 2002;11:3 284-288 doi:10.1136/qhc.11.3.284

JournalScan

  • The Wanless report: engaging the NHS with patient needs?

    • Tom Smith
    Qual Saf Health Care 2002;11:3 289-291 doi:10.1136/qhc.11.3.289

CyberSpace

  • Safe and effective use of medications: a global concern

    • A L Scheffler
    Qual Saf Health Care 2002;11:3 292-293 doi:10.1136/qhc.11.3.292

Heroes and martyrs of quality and safety

  • Bruce Psaty and the risks of calcium channel blockers

    • R A Deyo
    Qual Saf Health Care 2002;11:3 294-296 doi:10.1136/qhc.11.3.294

Letter to the editor

  • External research service with critical appraisal of the medical literature at a university medical centre

    • A Juche,
    • U Euler,
    • B Brüggenjürgen,
    • S N Willich,
    • R Kunz
    Qual Saf Health Care 2002;11:3 297 doi:10.1136/qhc.11.3.297

Book reviews

  • Shared Decision Making. Patient Involvement in Clinical Practice: Glyn Elwyn. Nijmegen, The Netherlands: WOK, 2001, £10.00, pp 221. ISBN 90 76316 12 0

    • R Say
    Qual Saf Health Care 2002;11:3 297-298 doi:10.1136/qhc.11.3.297-a

  • Alzheimer's Disease: Policy and Practice across Europe: Edited by M Warner, S Furnish, M Longley, B Lawlor. Oxford: Radcliffe Medical Press, 2002, £24.95, pp 216 (paperback). ISBN 1 85775 416 6

    • J Herzberg
    Qual Saf Health Care 2002;11:3 298 doi:10.1136/qhc.11.3.298

Cover Story

  • A lesson for our times

    • J W Sender,
    • A Crichton-Harris
    Qual Saf Health Care 2002;11:3 299 doi:10.1136/qhc.11.3.299

Action points

  • ACTION POINTS

    • Tim Albert
    Qual Saf Health Care 2002;11:3 300 doi:10.1136/qhc.11.3.300

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