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December 2009, Volume 18, Issue 6

[Author index]

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  1. Quality lines
  2. Editorial
  3. Commentaries
  4. Original viewpoint
  5. Original research
  6. Error management
  7. Quality improvement report
  8. Heroes and martyrs
  9. PostScript
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Quality lines

  • Quality lines

    Qual Saf Health Care 2009;18:6 i doi:10.1136/qshc.2009.037002

Editorial

  • Safe healthcare: we’re running out of excuses

    • David P Stevens
    Qual Saf Health Care 2009;18:6 418 doi:10.1136/qshc.2009.038778

Commentaries

  • Improving healthcare worker hand hygiene: show me more!

    • Kathryn B Kirkland
    Qual Saf Health Care 2009;18:6 419 doi:10.1136/qshc.2009.036798

  • Viewing the safety imperative from the French policy perspective

    • René Amalberti,
    • Charles Bruneau,
    • Armelle Desplanques,
    • Laurent Degos
    Qual Saf Health Care 2009;18:6 420-421 doi:10.1136/qshc.2009.037036

  • Patient safety—a view from down under

    • Merrilyn Walton
    Qual Saf Health Care 2009;18:6 422-423 doi:10.1136/qshc.2009.037044

Original viewpoint

  • Original viewpoint: Transforming healthcare: a safety imperative

    • L Leape,
    • D Berwick,
    • C Clancy,
    • J Conway,
    • P Gluck,
    • J Guest,
    • D Lawrence,
    • J Morath,
    • D O’Leary,
    • P O’Neill,
    • D Pinakiewicz,
    • T Isaac
    Qual Saf Health Care 2009;18:6 424-428 doi:10.1136/qshc.2009.036954

Original research

  • Improving healthcare worker hand hygiene adherence before patient contact: a before-and-after five-unit multimodal intervention in Tuscany

    • S Saint,
    • A Conti,
    • A Bartoloni,
    • G Virgili,
    • F Mannelli,
    • S Fumagalli,
    • P di Martino,
    • A A Conti,
    • S R Kaufman,
    • M A M Rogers,
    • G F Gensini
    Qual Saf Health Care 2009;18:6 429-433 doi:10.1136/qshc.2009.032771

  • The role of the “champion” in infection prevention: results from a multisite qualitative study

    • L J Damschroder,
    • J Banaszak-Holl,
    • C P Kowalski,
    • J Forman,
    • S Saint,
    • S L Krein
    Qual Saf Health Care 2009;18:6 434-440 doi:10.1136/qshc.2009.034199

  • Use of a risk analysis method to improve care management for outlying inpatients in a university hospital

    • B Lepage,
    • R Robert,
    • M Lebeau,
    • C Aubeneau,
    • C Silvain,
    • V Migeot
    Qual Saf Health Care 2009;18:6 441-445 doi:10.1136/qshc.2007.025742

  • Involvement of parents in critical incidents in a neonatal–paediatric intensive care unit

    • B Frey,
    • J Ersch,
    • V Bernet,
    • O Baenziger,
    • L Enderli,
    • C Doell
    Qual Saf Health Care 2009;18:6 446-449 doi:10.1136/qshc.2007.025023

  • Evidence-based chronic heart failure management programs: reality or myth?

    • A Driscoll,
    • L Worrall-Carter,
    • D L Hare,
    • P M Davidson,
    • B Riegel,
    • A Tonkin,
    • S Stewart
    Qual Saf Health Care 2009;18:6 450-455 doi:10.1136/qshc.2008.028035

  • Do managed clinical networks improve quality of diabetes care? Evidence from a retrospective mixed methods evaluation

    • A Greene,
    • C Pagliari,
    • S Cunningham,
    • P Donnan,
    • J Evans,
    • A Emslie-Smith,
    • A Morris,
    • B Guthrie
    Qual Saf Health Care 2009;18:6 456-461 doi:10.1136/qshc.2007.023119

Error management

  • Patient safety attitudes of paediatric trainee physicians

    • G Parry,
    • L Horowitz,
    • D Goldmann
    Qual Saf Health Care 2009;18:6 462-466 doi:10.1136/qshc.2006.020230

  • Bridging the gap between research and practice: review of a targeted hospital inpatient fall prevention programme

    • A Barker,
    • J Kamar,
    • A Morton,
    • D Berlowitz
    Qual Saf Health Care 2009;18:6 467-472 doi:10.1136/qshc.2007.025676

  • Sequential monitoring of hospital adverse events when control charts fail: the example of fall injuries in hospitals

    • A Barker,
    • A Morton,
    • M Gatton,
    • E Tong,
    • A Clements
    Qual Saf Health Care 2009;18:6 473-477 doi:10.1136/qshc.2007.025601

  • Impact of a standard medication chart on prescribing errors: a before-and-after audit

    • I D Coombes,
    • D A Stowasser,
    • C Reid,
    • C A Mitchell
    Qual Saf Health Care 2009;18:6 478-485 doi:10.1136/qshc.2007.025296

  • Feasibility and reliability of PRISMA-Medical for specialty-based incident analysis

    • C Snijders,
    • T W van der Schaaf,
    • H Klip,
    • R A van Lingen W P F Fetter,
    • A Molendijk
    Qual Saf Health Care 2009;18:6 486-491 doi:10.1136/qshc.2008.028068

  • An engineered solution to the maladministration of spinal injections

    • R Lawton,
    • P Gardner,
    • B Green,
    • C Davey,
    • P Chamberlain,
    • P Phillips,
    • G Hughes
    Qual Saf Health Care 2009;18:6 492-495 doi:10.1136/qshc.2007.025767

  • Patient safety on the otolaryngology service: the role of an established rapid response system

    • C L Oliver,
    • M A DeVita,
    • C J Dunwoody,
    • J T Johnson,
    • J C Sok,
    • R L Simmons
    Qual Saf Health Care 2009;18:6 496-499 doi:10.1136/qshc.2007.024810

  • A reduction in cardiac arrests and duration of clinical instability after implementation of a paediatric rapid response system

    • C C Hanson,
    • G D Randolph,
    • J A Erickson,
    • C M Mayer,
    • J T Bruckel,
    • B D Harris,
    • T S Willis
    Qual Saf Health Care 2009;18:6 500-504 doi:10.1136/qshc.2007.026054

Quality improvement report

  • Use of colour-coded labels for intravenous high-risk medications and lines to improve patient safety

    • N Porat,
    • Y Bitan,
    • D Shefi,
    • Y Donchin,
    • H Rozenbaum
    Qual Saf Health Care 2009;18:6 505-509 doi:10.1136/qshc.2007.025726

Heroes and martyrs

  • Hannington Muyenje and Uganda’s Power FM radio station: changing the behaviour of young adults so they can avoid HIV/AIDS

    • Duncan Neuhauser
    Qual Saf Health Care 2009;18:6 510-511 doi:10.1136/qshc.2007.025304

PostScript

  • Letters: Improving acute oxygen prescription in a respiratory care unit

    • G Walters,
    • S Nadeem
    Qual Saf Health Care 2009;18:6 512 doi:10.1136/qshc.2008.029561

  • Letters: “Bed exchanger”: the Italian way of swing-bed approach. A new possibility through an old tool

    • T Meschi,
    • A Nouvenne,
    • B Prati,
    • G Campaniello,
    • L Borghi
    Qual Saf Health Care 2009;18:6 512 doi:10.1136/qshc.2008.027854

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