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Editorials

  • Organisational change: The clinician, the patient and the organisation: a crucial three sided relationship

    • Fiona Moss
    Qual Saf Health Care 2004;13:6 406-407 doi:10.1136/qshc.2004.012872

  • Quality improvement in the US and UK: The improvement horse race: bet on the UK

    • D M Berwick
    Qual Saf Health Care 2004;13:6 407-409 doi:10.1136/qshc.2004.012765

  • International guidelines: Challenges for an international guidelines collaboration

    • R Thomson
    Qual Saf Health Care 2004;13:6 409-410 doi:10.1136/qshc.2004.012815

  • "Role drift": “Role drift” to unlicensed assistants: risks to quality and safety

    • H P McKenna
    Qual Saf Health Care 2004;13:6 410-411 doi:10.1136/qshc.2004.012757

  • Medical decision making: Researching doctors’ decisions

    • J Dowie
    Qual Saf Health Care 2004;13:6 411-412 doi:10.1136/qshc.2004.010967

Quality lines

  • Quality Lines

    Qual Saf Health Care 2004;13:6 406a doi:10.1136/qhc.13.6.406a

Commentaries

  • Simulation based training: Are simulation and didactic crisis resource management (CRM) training synergistic?

    • J B Cooper
    Qual Saf Health Care 2004;13:6 413-414 doi:10.1136/qshc.2004.011544

  • Informed consent: Informed consent: don’t throw out the moral baby with the critical bath water

    • L Doyal
    Qual Saf Health Care 2004;13:6 414-415 doi:10.1136/qshc.2004.011858

  • Game theory: The consultation game

    • G Elwyn
    Qual Saf Health Care 2004;13:6 415-416 doi:10.1136/qshc.2004.011999

Original Articles

  • Simulation based teamwork training for emergency department staff: does it improve clinical team performance when added to an existing didactic teamwork curriculum?

    • M J Shapiro,
    • J C Morey,
    • S D Small,
    • V Langford,
    • C J Kaylor,
    • L Jagminas,
    • S Suner,
    • M L Salisbury,
    • R Simon,
    • G D Jay
    Qual Saf Health Care 2004;13:6 417-421 doi:10.1136/qshc.2003.005447

  • Women’s accounts of consenting to surgery: is consent a quality problem?

    • M Habiba,
    • C Jackson,
    • A Akkad,
    • S Kenyon,
    • M Dixon-Woods
    Qual Saf Health Care 2004;13:6 422-427 doi:10.1136/qshc.2004.010652

  • How do stakeholder groups vary in a Delphi technique about primary mental health care and what factors influence their ratings?

    • S M Campbell,
    • T Shield,
    • A Rogers,
    • L Gask
    Qual Saf Health Care 2004;13:6 428-434 doi:10.1136/qshc.2003.007815

  • Towards primary care for non-serious 999 callers: results of a controlled study of “Treat and Refer” protocols for ambulance crews

    • H Snooks,
    • N Kearsley,
    • J Dale,
    • M Halter,
    • J Redhead,
    • W Y Cheung
    Qual Saf Health Care 2004;13:6 435-443 doi:10.1136/qshc.2003.007658

Quality improvement report

  • Effect of a flow chart on use of blood transfusions in primary total hip and knee replacement: prospective before and after study

    • U Müller,
    • A Exadaktylos,
    • C Roeder,
    • M Pisan,
    • S Eggli,
    • P Jüni
    Qual Saf Health Care 2004;13:6 444-449 doi:10.1136/qhc.13.6.444

Organisational matters

  • Designing information technology to support prescribing decision making

    • N Barber
    Qual Saf Health Care 2004;13:6 450-454 doi:10.1136/qshc.2004.012104

Developing research and practice

  • Improving the quality of health care: using international collaboration to inform guideline programmes by founding the Guidelines International Network (G-I-N)

    • G Ollenschläger,
    • C Marshall,
    • S Qureshi,
    • K Rosenbrand,
    • J Burgers,
    • M Mäkelä,
    • J Slutsky
    Qual Saf Health Care 2004;13:6 455-460 doi:10.1136/qshc.2003.009761

Education and training

  • Models of the medical consultation: opportunities and limitations of a game theory perspective

    • C Tarrant,
    • T Stokes,
    • A M Colman
    Qual Saf Health Care 2004;13:6 461-466 doi:10.1136/qshc.2003.008417

Echo

  • Admissions for ADRs are as high as ever

    Qual Saf Health Care 2004;13:6 466 doi:10.1136/qhc.13.6.466

Error management

  • Surgical fires: perioperative communication is essential to prevent this rare but devastating complication

    • M E Bruley
    Qual Saf Health Care 2004;13:6 467-471 doi:10.1136/qshc.2003.005819

Heroes and martyrs of quality and safety

  • Avedis Donabedian: father of quality assurance and poet

    • M Best,
    • D Neuhauser
    Qual Saf Health Care 2004;13:6 472-473 doi:10.1136/qshc.2004.012591

JournalScan

  • Exploring the characteristics of active health seekers, the thinking behind patient preferences, and the implications for patient-professional relationships

    • T Smith
    Qual Saf Health Care 2004;13:6 474-477 doi:10.1136/qhc.13.6.474

Letter

  • Mobile communication regulations updated: how safely are doctors’ telephones used?

    • A G Kidd,
    • C Sharratt,
    • J Coleman
    Qual Saf Health Care 2004;13:6 478 doi:10.1136/qhc.13.6.478

Book reviews

  • Getting to Grips with Clinical Governance

    • R Baker
    Qual Saf Health Care 2004;13:6 478 doi:10.1136/qshc.2004.010512

  • Medical Records, Use and Abuse

    • G Neale
    Qual Saf Health Care 2004;13:6 478-479 doi:10.1136/qshc.2004.012062

  • Delivering Quality in the NHS

    • T A Sheldon
    Qual Saf Health Care 2004;13:6 479 doi:10.1136/qshc.2004.011643

Reviewers

  • Volume 13 reviewers

    Qual Saf Health Care 2004;13:6 480 doi:10.1136/qhc.13.6.480

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