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Quality lines

  • Quality Lines

    • David P Stevens
    Qual Saf Health Care 2006;15:2 77

Editorial

  • Health professions education: Turn up the heat on health professions education

    • D P Stevens
    Qual Saf Health Care 2006;15:2 78-79 doi:10.1136/qshc.2006.018200

Commentary

  • Racial and ethnic disparities in health care: Reducing racial and ethnic disparities in health care: an integral part of quality improvement scholarship

    • M H Chin,
    • A T Chien
    Qual Saf Health Care 2006;15:2 79-80 doi:10.1136/qshc.2006.017749

Error management

  • Development of the Leapfrog methodology for evaluating hospital implemented inpatient computerized physician order entry systems

    • P M Kilbridge,
    • E M Welebob,
    • D C Classen
    Qual Saf Health Care 2006;15:2 81-84 doi:10.1136/qshc.2005.014969

Organisational matters

  • How can the principles of complexity science be applied to improve the coordination of care for complex pediatric patients?

    • A G Matlow,
    • J G Wright,
    • B Zimmerman,
    • K Thomson,
    • M Valente
    Qual Saf Health Care 2006;15:2 85-88 doi:10.1136/qshc.2005.014605

Quality improvement report

  • Use of a standardized protocol to decrease medication errors and adverse events related to sliding scale insulin

    • A C Donihi,
    • M M DiNardo,
    • M A DeVita,
    • M T Korytkowski
    Qual Saf Health Care 2006;15:2 89-91 doi:10.1136/qshc.2005.014381

Original Articles

  • Building safer systems by ecological design: using restoration science to develop a medication safety intervention

    • P B Marck,
    • J A Kwan,
    • B Preville,
    • M Reynes,
    • W Morgan-Eckley,
    • R Versluys,
    • L Chivers,
    • B O’Brien,
    • J Van der Zalm,
    • M Swankhuizen,
    • S R Majumdar
    Qual Saf Health Care 2006;15:2 92-97 doi:10.1136/qshc.2005.015453

  • Participating in a trial in a critical situation: a qualitative study in pregnancy

    • S Kenyon,
    • M Dixon-Woods,
    • C J Jackson,
    • K Windridge,
    • E Pitchforth
    Qual Saf Health Care 2006;15:2 98-101 doi:10.1136/qshc.2005.015636

  • Unscheduled returns to the emergency department: an outcome of medical errors?

    • S Nuñez,
    • A Hexdall,
    • A Aguirre-Jaime
    Qual Saf Health Care 2006;15:2 102-108 doi:10.1136/qshc.2005.016618

  • Measuring safety climate in health care

    • R Flin,
    • C Burns,
    • K Mearns,
    • S Yule,
    • E M Robertson
    Qual Saf Health Care 2006;15:2 109-115 doi:10.1136/qshc.2005.014761

  • Preventing drug related morbidity: a process for facilitating changes in practice

    • C J Morris,
    • J A Cantrill,
    • A J Avery,
    • R L Howard
    Qual Saf Health Care 2006;15:2 116-121 doi:10.1136/qshc.2005.014597

  • Reconcilable differences: correcting medication errors at hospital admission and discharge

    • T Vira,
    • M Colquhoun,
    • E Etchells
    Qual Saf Health Care 2006;15:2 122-126 doi:10.1136/qshc.2005.015347

  • Treating the clock and not the patient: ambulance response times and risk

    • L Price
    Qual Saf Health Care 2006;15:2 127-130 doi:10.1136/qshc.2005.015651

  • Quality of diabetes care and coronary heart disease absolute risk in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus in Australian general practice

    • Q Wan,
    • M F Harris,
    • U W Jayasinghe,
    • J Flack,
    • A Georgiou,
    • D L Penn,
    • J R Burns
    Qual Saf Health Care 2006;15:2 131-135 doi:10.1136/qshc.2005.014845

  • Patient assessments of a hypothetical medical error: effects of health outcome, disclosure, and staff responsiveness

    • A Cleopas,
    • A Villaveces,
    • A Charvet,
    • P A Bovier,
    • V Kolly,
    • T V Perneger
    Qual Saf Health Care 2006;15:2 136-141 doi:10.1136/qshc.2005.015602

Miscellanea

  • NICE guidelines for head injury are cost effective

    Qual Saf Health Care 2006;15:2 115

Heroes and martyrs of quality and safety

  • Walter A Shewhart, 1924, and the Hawthorne factory

    • M Best,
    • D Neuhauser
    Qual Saf Health Care 2006;15:2 142-143 doi:10.1136/qshc.2006.018093

Letters

  • What to do with outliers?

    • G Parry,
    • E Draper,
    • P McKinney
    Qual Saf Health Care 2006;15:2 144

  • Making the case for more necropsies to improve patient care

    • M A Bohensky,
    • J E Ibrahim,
    • D L Ranson
    Qual Saf Health Care 2006;15:2 144

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