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October 2004, Volume 13, Issue 5

[Author index]

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  1. Quality lines
  2. Editorials
  3. Commentaries
  4. Original Articles
  5. Echo
  6. Quality improvement report
  7. Developing research and practice
  8. Classic paper
  9. Effectiveness bulletin
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Quality lines

  • Quality Lines

    Qual Saf Health Care 2004;13:5 321 doi:10.1136/qhc.13.5.321

Editorials

  • Medical error definitions: What should we report to medical error reporting systems?

    • S M Dovey,
    • R L Phillips
    Qual Saf Health Care 2004;13:5 322-323 doi:10.1136/qshc.2004.011791

  • Pay for performance: Pay for performance: the best worst choice

    • M L Millenson
    Qual Saf Health Care 2004;13:5 323-324 doi:10.1136/qshc.2004.011668

  • Volume-quality relationship: The volume-quality relationship: insufficient evidence for use as a quality indicator

    • T A Sheldon
    Qual Saf Health Care 2004;13:5 325-326 doi:10.1136/qshc.2004.012161

Commentaries

  • Communication failure: Why communication fails in the operating room

    • J Firth-Cozens
    Qual Saf Health Care 2004;13:5 327 doi:10.1136/qshc.2004.010785

  • Clinical governance: Prescribing how NHS trusts “do” quality: a recipe for committees but little action?

    • P M Whitty
    Qual Saf Health Care 2004;13:5 328 doi:10.1136/qshc.2004.011767

  • Right care: Making sure the right patient gets the right care

    • C A Ranger,
    • S Bothwell
    Qual Saf Health Care 2004;13:5 329 doi:10.1136/qshc.2004.012005

Original Articles

  • Communication failures in the operating room: an observational classification of recurrent types and effects

    • L Lingard,
    • S Espin,
    • S Whyte,
    • G Regehr,
    • G R Baker,
    • R Reznick,
    • J Bohnen,
    • B Orser,
    • D Doran,
    • E Grober
    Qual Saf Health Care 2004;13:5 330-334 doi:10.1136/qshc.2003.008425

  • Achieving progress through clinical governance? A national study of health care managers’ perceptions in the NHS in England

    • T Freeman,
    • K Walshe
    Qual Saf Health Care 2004;13:5 335-343 doi:10.1136/qshc.2002.005108

  • Acceptability of identification bracelets for hospital inpatients

    • A Cleopas,
    • V Kolly,
    • P A Bovier,
    • P Garnerin,
    • T V Perneger
    Qual Saf Health Care 2004;13:5 344-348 doi:10.1136/qshc.2004.010496

  • Patient reports of adverse events associated with acupuncture treatment: a prospective national survey

    • H MacPherson,
    • A Scullion,
    • K J Thomas,
    • S Walters
    Qual Saf Health Care 2004;13:5 349-355 doi:10.1136/qshc.2003.009134

  • RCGP Quality Team Development programme: an illuminative evaluation

    • F Macfarlane,
    • T Greenhalgh,
    • T Schofield,
    • T Desombre
    Qual Saf Health Care 2004;13:5 356-362 doi:10.1136/qshc.2003.009332

  • Safety of telephone consultation for “non-serious” emergency ambulance service patients

    • J Dale,
    • S Williams,
    • T Foster,
    • J Higgins,
    • H Snooks,
    • R Crouch,
    • C Hartley-Sharpe,
    • E Glucksman,
    • S George
    Qual Saf Health Care 2004;13:5 363-373 doi:10.1136/qshc.2003.008003

  • Patients’ experiences of an open access follow up arrangement in managing inflammatory bowel disease

    • A Rogers,
    • A Kennedy,
    • E Nelson,
    • A Robinson
    Qual Saf Health Care 2004;13:5 374-378 doi:10.1136/qshc.2003.008292

  • Does it matter what a hospital is “high volume” for? Specificity of hospital volume-outcome associations for surgical procedures: analysis of administrative data

    • D R Urbach,
    • N N Baxter
    Qual Saf Health Care 2004;13:5 379-383 doi:10.1136/bmj.38030.642963.AE

Echo

  • Capturing the full story is essential for good care

    Qual Saf Health Care 2004;13:5 348 doi:10.1136/qhc.13.5.348

  • Changing clinical behaviour by making guidelines specific

    Qual Saf Health Care 2004;13:5 355 doi:10.1136/qhc.13.5.355

Quality improvement report

  • Use of a preprinted sticker to improve the prescribing of prophylactic antibiotics for hip fracture surgery

    • S Ritchie,
    • N Scanlon,
    • M Lewis,
    • P N Black
    Qual Saf Health Care 2004;13:5 384-387 doi:10.1136/qshc.2003.009696

Developing research and practice

  • Beyond usability: designing effective technology implementation systems to promote patient safety

    • B-T Karsh
    Qual Saf Health Care 2004;13:5 388-394 doi:10.1136/qshc.2004.010322

Classic paper

  • Effectiveness of a simulator in training anesthesiology residents

    • S Abrahamson,
    • J S Denson,
    • R M Wolf
    Qual Saf Health Care 2004;13:5 395-397 doi:10.1136/qhc.13.5.395

  • COMMENTARY

    • W R Hamman
    Qual Saf Health Care 2004;13:5 397-399 doi:10.1136/qshc.2002.003327

Effectiveness bulletin

  • Management of colorectal cancers

    • R Lewis,
    • A Flynn,
    • M E Dean,
    • A Melville,
    • A Eastwood,
    • A Booth
    Qual Saf Health Care 2004;13:5 400-404 doi:10.1136/qshc.2004.011817

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