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Table of contents

October 2008 - Volume 17 - 5

Quality and Safety in Health Care: 17 (5)

Quality lines

Quality lines (8 October, 2008) Free

Editorial

Aviation is not the only industry: healthcare could look wider for lessons on patient safety (8 October, 2008) Free
Joanne Shaw, Keith Calder

Commentary

Quality indicators for diabetes mellitus in the ambulatory setting: using the Delphi method to inform performance measurement development (8 October, 2008)
David Aron, Leonard Pogach

Original research

Prescribing quality indicators of type 2 diabetes mellitus ambulatory care (8 October, 2008)
L Martirosyan, J Braspenning, P Denig, W J C de Grauw, M Bouma, F Storms, F M Haaijer-Ruskamp
Patient-oriented intervention in addition to centrally organised checkups improves diabetic patient outcome in primary care (8 October, 2008)
M A Meulepas, J C C Braspenning, W J de Grauw, A E M Lucas, D Wijkel, R P T M Grol
Improvements in the quality of care and health outcomes with new stroke care units following implementation of a clinician-led, health system redesign programme in New South Wales, Australia (8 October, 2008)
D A Cadilhac, D C Pearce, C R Levi, G A Donnan
Cervical screening result communication: a focus-group investigation of English women’s experiences and needs (8 October, 2008)
M R Goldsmith, J Austoker, G Marsh, S T Kehoe, C R Bankhead
Levels of agreement on the grading, analysis and reporting of significant events by general practitioners: a cross-sectional study (8 October, 2008)
J McKay, P Bowie, L Murray, M Lough
Predicting patient complaints in hospital settings (8 October, 2008)
T J B Kline, C Willness, W A Ghali

Error management

Systems ambiguity and guideline compliance: a qualitative study of how intensive care units follow evidence-based guidelines to reduce healthcare-associated infections (8 October, 2008) Free
A P Gurses, K L Seidl, V Vaidya, G Bochicchio, A D Harris, J Hebden, Y Xiao
An educational and audit tool to reduce prescribing error in intensive care (8 October, 2008)
A N Thomas, E M Boxall, S K Laha, A J Day, D Grundy
Reporting of Clinical Adverse Events Scale: a measure of doctor and nurse attitudes to adverse event reporting (8 October, 2008)
B Wilson, H L Bekker, F Fylan
Contributing factors identified by hospital incident report narratives (8 October, 2008)
T K Nuckols, D S Bell, S M Paddock, L H Hilborne

Organisational matters

Texting appointment reminders to repeated non-attenders in primary care: randomised controlled study (8 October, 2008)
K Fairhurst, A Sheikh
The use of medical emergency teams in medical and surgical patients: impact of patient, nurse and organisational characteristics (8 October, 2008)
A Schmid-Mazzoccoli, L A Hoffman, G A Wolf, M B Happ, M A Devita
A critical look at Lean Thinking in healthcare (8 October, 2008)
T P Young, S I McClean

Quality improvement report

Clinical and economic impact of an antibiotics stewardship programme in a regional hospital in Hong Kong (8 October, 2008)
C K Ng, T C Wu, W M J Chan, Y S W Leung, C K P Li, D N C Tsang, G M Leung

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