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February 2009, Volume 18, Issue 1

[Author index]

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  1. Quality lines
  2. Editorial
  3. Commentary
  4. Error management
  5. Original Articles
  6. Education and training
  7. Organisational matters
  8. Quality improvement report
  9. Corrections
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Quality lines

  • Quality lines

    • David P Stevens
    Qual Saf Health Care 2009;18:1 i

Editorial

  • Adverse event reporting systems and safer healthcare

    • James B Battles,
    • David P Stevens
    Qual Saf Health Care 2009;18:1 2 doi:10.1136/qshc.2008.031997

Commentary

  • Who do we blame when it all goes wrong?

    • K Catchpole
    Qual Saf Health Care 2009;18:1 3-4 doi:10.1136/qshc.2008.029611

Error management

  • Trends in healthcare incident reporting and relationship to safety and quality data in acute hospitals: results from the National Reporting and Learning System

    • A Hutchinson,
    • T A Young,
    • K L Cooper,
    • A McIntosh,
    • J D Karnon,
    • S Scobie,
    • R G Thomson
    Qual Saf Health Care 2009;18:1 5-10 doi:10.1136/qshc.2007.022400

  • Feedback from incident reporting: information and action to improve patient safety

    • J Benn,
    • M Koutantji,
    • L Wallace,
    • P Spurgeon,
    • M Rejman,
    • A Healey,
    • C Vincent
    Qual Saf Health Care 2009;18:1 11-21 doi:10.1136/qshc.2007.024166

  • Medication errors: the impact of prescribing and transcribing errors on preventable harm in hospitalised patients

    • J E van Doormaal,
    • P M L A van den Bemt,
    • P G M Mol,
    • R J Zaal,
    • A C G Egberts,
    • F M Haaijer-Ruskamp,
    • J G W Kosterink
    Qual Saf Health Care 2009;18:1 22-27 doi:10.1136/qshc.2007.023812

  • Development of the Pharmacy Safety Climate Questionnaire: a principal components analysis

    • D M Ashcroft,
    • D Parker
    Qual Saf Health Care 2009;18:1 28-31 doi:10.1136/qshc.2006.022129

  • Prescribing discrepancies likely to cause adverse drug events after patient transfer

    • K S Boockvar,
    • S Liu,
    • N Goldstein,
    • J Nebeker,
    • A Siu,
    • T Fried
    Qual Saf Health Care 2009;18:1 32-36 doi:10.1136/qshc.2007.025957

Original Articles

  • Towards safer, better healthcare: harnessing the natural properties of complex sociotechnical systems

    • J Braithwaite,
    • W B Runciman,
    • A F Merry
    Qual Saf Health Care 2009;18:1 37-41 doi:10.1136/qshc.2007.023317
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  • “Choice” and place of delivery: a qualitative study of women in remote and rural Scotland

    • E Pitchforth,
    • E van Teijlingen,
    • V Watson,
    • J Tucker,
    • A Kiger,
    • J Ireland,
    • J Farmer,
    • A-M Rennie,
    • S Gibb,
    • E Thomson,
    • M Ryan
    Qual Saf Health Care 2009;18:1 42-48 doi:10.1136/qshc.2007.023572

  • Implementation strategies influence the structure, process and outcome of quality systems: an empirical study of hospital departments in Sweden

    • S Kunkel,
    • U Rosenqvist,
    • R Westerling
    Qual Saf Health Care 2009;18:1 49-54 doi:10.1136/qshc.2007.023978

  • A pilot study testing a medication algorithm to reduce polypharmacy

    • L A Mistler,
    • T A Mellman,
    • R E Drake
    Qual Saf Health Care 2009;18:1 55-58 doi:10.1136/qshc.2007.024471

  • Audit of the consultation process on general internal medicine services

    • J Conley,
    • M Jordan,
    • W A Ghali
    Qual Saf Health Care 2009;18:1 59-62 doi:10.1136/qshc.2007.025486

Education and training

  • Beyond “see one, do one, teach one”: toward a different training paradigm

    • J M Rodriguez-Paz,
    • M Kennedy,
    • E Salas,
    • A W Wu,
    • J B Sexton,
    • E A Hunt,
    • P J Pronovost
    Qual Saf Health Care 2009;18:1 63-68 doi:10.1136/qshc.2007.023903

Organisational matters

  • Involuntary automaticity: a potential legal defence against an allegation of clinical negligence?

    • B Toft,
    • P Gooderham
    Qual Saf Health Care 2009;18:1 69-73 doi:10.1136/qshc.2007.024273

Quality improvement report

  • A model for increasing patient safety in the intensive care unit: increasing the implementation rates of proven safety measures

    • W S Krimsky,
    • I B Mroz,
    • J K McIlwaine,
    • S D Surgenor,
    • D Christian,
    • H L Corwin,
    • D Houston,
    • C Robison,
    • N Malayaman
    Qual Saf Health Care 2009;18:1 74-80 doi:10.1136/qshc.2007.024844

Corrections

  • Corrections

    Qual Saf Health Care 2009;18:1 80 doi:10.1136/qshc.2007.024323corr1

  • Corrections

    Qual Saf Health Care 2009;18:1 80 doi:10.1136/qshc.2008.012047corr1

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