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Quality lines

  • Quality lines

    • David P Stevens
    Qual Saf Health Care 2010;19:5 i doi:10.1136/qshc.2010.048298

Editorial

  • The leader's work in the improvement of healthcare

    • Paul Batalden
    Qual Saf Health Care 2010;19:5 367-368 doi:10.1136/qshc.2010.043745

Commentary

  • Admitting medication errors: five critical concepts

    • Edward Etchells
    Qual Saf Health Care 2010;19:5 369-370 doi:10.1136/qshc.2010.041020

Original research

  • Pharmacist- versus physician-acquired medication history: a prospective study at the emergency department

    • Sabrina De Winter,
    • Isabel Spriet,
    • Christophe Indevuyst,
    • Peter Vanbrabant,
    • Didier Desruelles,
    • Marc Sabbe,
    • Jean Bernard Gillet,
    • Alexander Wilmer,
    • Ludo Willems
    Qual Saf Health Care 2010;19:5 371-375 Published Online First: 1 July 2010 doi:10.1136/qshc.2009.035014

  • Lean thinking in healthcare: a realist review of the literature

    • Pamela Mazzocato,
    • Carl Savage,
    • Mats Brommels,
    • Håkan Aronsson,
    • Johan Thor
    Qual Saf Health Care 2010;19:5 376-382 Published Online First: 19 August 2010 doi:10.1136/qshc.2009.037986

  • Are evaluated respiratory service developments implemented into clinical practice?

    • N J Roberts,
    • M Glasser,
    • M R Partridge
    Qual Saf Health Care 2010;19:5 383-386 Published Online First: 18 September 2010 doi:10.1136/qshc.2008.028969

  • Performance on rheumatoid arthritis quality indicators in an Alaska Native healthcare system

    • Elizabeth D Ferucci,
    • Katherine J Donnithorne,
    • Kathryn R Koller,
    • Amy Swango-Wilson,
    • Jacqueline Pflaum,
    • Anne P Lanier
    Qual Saf Health Care 2010;19:5 387-391 Published Online First: 23 July 2010 doi:10.1136/qshc.2008.030940

  • Rationalising the treatment of anaemia in cardiac surgery: short and mid-term results from a local quality improvement initiative

    • Donald S Likosky,
    • Stephen D Surgenor,
    • Lawrence J Dacey,
    • Gordon R DeFoe,
    • Elizabeth L Maislen,
    • Jean A Clark,
    • James P Aubuchon,
    • John H Higgins,
    • Peter A Beaulieu,
    • Gerald T O'Connor,
    • Cathy S Ross
    Qual Saf Health Care 2010;19:5 392-398 doi:10.1136/qshc.2009.033456

  • Transforming administrative data into real-time information in the Department of Surgery

    • Peter A Beaulieu,
    • John H Higgins,
    • Lawrence J Dacey,
    • William C Nugent,
    • Gordon R DeFoe,
    • Donald S Likosky
    Qual Saf Health Care 2010;19:5 399-404 Published Online First: 27 April 2010 doi:10.1136/qshc.2009.034264
    Editor's Choice

  • Departures from the protocol during conduct of a clinical trial: a pattern from the data record consistent with a learning curve

    • J M Taekman,
    • M Stafford-Smith,
    • E J Velazquez,
    • M C Wright,
    • B G Phillips-Bute,
    • M A Pfeffer,
    • M A Sellers,
    • K S Pieper,
    • M F Newman,
    • F Van de Werf,
    • R Diaz,
    • J Leimberger,
    • R M Califf
    Qual Saf Health Care 2010;19:5 405-410 Published Online First: 10 August 2010 doi:10.1136/qshc.2008.028605

  • Cardiometabolic treatment decisions in patients with type 2 diabetes: the role of repeated measurements and medication burden

    • J Voorham,
    • F M Haaijer-Ruskamp,
    • B H R Wolffenbuttel,
    • R P Stolk,
    • P Denig,
    • Groningen Initiative to Analyse Type 2 Diabetes Treatment (GIANTT) Group
    Qual Saf Health Care 2010;19:5 411-415 Published Online First: 27 April 2010 doi:10.1136/qshc.2008.030106

  • Finding the best examples of healthcare quality improvement in Sub-Saharan Africa

    • Constance Liu,
    • Joseph Babigumira,
    • Allan Chiunda,
    • Achilles Katamba,
    • Ilya Litvak,
    • Lakisha Miller,
    • Imelda Namagembe,
    • Juliet Sekandi,
    • Andrea Seicean,
    • Sinziana Seicean,
    • Duncan Neuhauser
    Qual Saf Health Care 2010;19:5 416-419 doi:10.1136/qshc.2008.028548

  • Reasons for discharges against medical advice: a qualitative study

    • Eberechukwu Onukwugha,
    • Elijah Saunders,
    • C Daniel Mullins,
    • Françoise G Pradel,
    • Marni Zuckerman,
    • Matthew R Weir
    Qual Saf Health Care 2010;19:5 420-424 Published Online First: 9 June 2010 doi:10.1136/qshc.2009.036269

  • Development of trigger tools for surveillance of adverse events in ambulatory surgery

    • Haytham M A Kaafarani,
    • Amy K Rosen,
    • Jonathan R Nebeker,
    • Stephanie Shimada,
    • Hillary J Mull,
    • Peter E Rivard,
    • Lucy Savitz,
    • Amy Helwig,
    • Marlena H Shin,
    • Kamal M F Itani
    Qual Saf Health Care 2010;19:5 425-429 Published Online First: 31 May 2010 doi:10.1136/qshc.2008.031591

Education and training

  • The impact of traditional and smart pump infusion technology on nurse medication administration performance in a simulated inpatient unit

    • P L Trbovich,
    • S Pinkney,
    • J A Cafazzo,
    • A C Easty
    Qual Saf Health Care 2010;19:5 430-434 Published Online First: 27 April 2010 doi:10.1136/qshc.2009.032839
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Error management

  • Identifying causes of adverse events detected by an automated trigger tool through in-depth analysis

    • S E Muething,
    • P H Conway,
    • E Kloppenborg,
    • A Lesko,
    • P J Schoettker,
    • M Seid,
    • U Kotagal
    Qual Saf Health Care 2010;19:5 435-439 Published Online First: 25 August 2010 doi:10.1136/qshc.2008.031393

  • The harm susceptibility model: a method to prioritise risks identified in patient safety reporting systems

    • Julius Cuong Pham,
    • Elizabeth Colantuoni,
    • Francesca Dominici,
    • Andrew Shore,
    • Carl Macrae,
    • Sara Scobie,
    • Martin Fletcher,
    • Kevin Cleary,
    • Christine A Goeschel,
    • Peter J Pronovost
    Qual Saf Health Care 2010;19:5 440-445 Published Online First: 28 April 2010 doi:10.1136/qshc.2009.035444

  • Establishing a global learning community for incident-reporting systems

    • Julius Cuong Pham,
    • Sebastiana Gianci,
    • James Battles,
    • Paula Beard,
    • John R Clarke,
    • Hilary Coates,
    • Liam Donaldson,
    • Noel Eldridge,
    • Martin Fletcher,
    • Christine A Goeschel,
    • Eugenie Heitmiller,
    • Jörgen Hensen,
    • Edward Kelley,
    • Jerod Loeb,
    • William Runciman,
    • Susan Sheridan,
    • Albert W Wu,
    • Peter J Pronovost
    Qual Saf Health Care 2010;19:5 446-451 doi:10.1136/qshc.2009.037739

  • Patient safety and systematic reviews: finding papers indexed in MEDLINE, EMBASE and CINAHL

    • A A Tanon,
    • F Champagne,
    • A-P Contandriopoulos,
    • M-P Pomey,
    • A Vadeboncoeur,
    • H Nguyen
    Qual Saf Health Care 2010;19:5 452-461 Published Online First: 10 May 2010 doi:10.1136/qshc.2008.031401

  • Patient safety begins with proper planning: a quantitative method to improve hospital design

    • D J Birnbach,
    • I Nevo,
    • S R Scheinman,
    • M Fitzpatrick,
    • I Shekhter,
    • J L Lombard
    Qual Saf Health Care 2010;19:5 462-465 Published Online First: 27 June 2010 doi:10.1136/qshc.2008.031013

Heroes and martyrs

  • Henry K Beecher: pain, belief and truth at the bedside. The powerful placebo, ethical research and anaesthesia safety

    • Mark Best,
    • Duncan Neuhauser
    Qual Saf Health Care 2010;19:5 466-468 Published Online First: 17 June 2010 doi:10.1136/qshc.2010.042200

Original research - Electronic pages

  • Evaluation of a clinical communication programme for perioperative and surgical care practitioners

    • Debra Nestel,
    • Roger Kneebone,
    • Alison Barnet,
    • Tanya Tierney,
    • Ara Darzi
    Qual Saf Health Care 2010;19:5 1-7 Published Online First: 21 April 2010 doi:10.1136/qshc.2007.026229

  • Psychometric properties of the Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture: findings from the UK

    • P Waterson,
    • P Griffiths,
    • C Stride,
    • J Murphy,
    • S Hignett
    Qual Saf Health Care 2010;19:5 1-5 Published Online First: 8 March 2010 doi:10.1136/qshc.2008.031625

  • Pressure ulcers and incontinence-associated dermatitis: effectiveness of the Pressure Ulcer Classification education tool on classification by nurses

    • Dimitri Beeckman,
    • Lisette Schoonhoven,
    • Jacqui Fletcher,
    • Katia Furtado,
    • Hilde Heyman,
    • Louis Paquay,
    • Dirk De Bacquer,
    • Tom Defloor
    Qual Saf Health Care 2010;19:5 1-4 Published Online First: 29 July 2010 doi:10.1136/qshc.2008.028415

  • Factors influencing paediatric nurses' responses to medication administration

    • Leigh Davis,
    • Robert S Ware,
    • Damhnat McCann,
    • Samantha Keogh,
    • Karen Watson
    Qual Saf Health Care 2010;19:5 1-3 Published Online First: 8 April 2010 doi:10.1136/qshc.2008.028852

  • Exploring the causes of adverse events in hospitals and potential prevention strategies

    • M Smits,
    • M Zegers,
    • P P Groenewegen,
    • D R M Timmermans,
    • L Zwaan,
    • G van der Wal,
    • C Wagner
    Qual Saf Health Care 2010;19:5 1-7 Published Online First: 8 February 2010 doi:10.1136/qshc.2008.030726

  • Economic evaluation of healthcare safety: which attributes of safety do healthcare professionals consider most important in resource allocation decisions?

    • L Steuten,
    • M Buxton
    Qual Saf Health Care 2010;19:5 1-6 Published Online First: 10 August 2010 doi:10.1136/qshc.2008.027870

  • Incidence of medication errors and adverse drug events in the ICU: a systematic review

    • Amanda Wilmer,
    • Kimberley Louie,
    • Peter Dodek,
    • Hubert Wong,
    • Najib Ayas
    Qual Saf Health Care 2010;19:5 1-9 Published Online First: 29 July 2010 doi:10.1136/qshc.2008.030783

  • Skilful anticipation: maternity nurses' perspectives on maintaining safety

    • A Lyndon
    Qual Saf Health Care 2010;19:5 1-5 Published Online First: 8 February 2010 doi:10.1136/qshc.2007.024547

  • Am I (un)safe here? Chemotherapy patients' perspectives towards engaging in their safety

    • David L B Schwappach,
    • Martin Wernli
    Qual Saf Health Care 2010;19:5 1-6 Published Online First: 27 April 2010 doi:10.1136/qshc.2009.033118

  • Effectiveness of interventions designed to promote patient involvement to enhance safety: a systematic review

    • Jill Hall,
    • Maggie Peat,
    • Yvonne Birks,
    • Su Golder,
    • Vikki Entwistle,
    • Simon Gilbody,
    • Peter Mansell,
    • Dorothy McCaughan,
    • Trevor Sheldon,
    • Ian Watt,
    • Brian Williams,
    • John Wright
    Qual Saf Health Care 2010;19:5 1-7 Published Online First: 27 April 2010 doi:10.1136/qshc.2009.032748

  • Automated detection of harm in healthcare with information technology: a systematic review

    • Malavika Govindan,
    • Aricca D Van Citters,
    • Eugene C Nelson,
    • Jane Kelly-Cummings,
    • Gautham Suresh
    Qual Saf Health Care 2010;19:5 1-11 Published Online First: 29 July 2010 doi:10.1136/qshc.2009.033027

  • Readiness for organisational change among general practice staff

    • B Christl,
    • M F Harris,
    • U W Jayasinghe,
    • J Proudfoot,
    • J Taggart,
    • J Tan
    • , on behalf of the Teamwork study group
    Qual Saf Health Care 2010;19:5 1-4 Published Online First: 1 March 2010 doi:10.1136/qshc.2009.033373

  • How RNs rescue patients: a qualitative study of RNs' perceived involvement in rapid response teams

    • Linda Searle Leach,
    • Ann Mayo,
    • Maria O'Rourke
    Qual Saf Health Care 2010;19:5 1-4 Published Online First: 8 April 2010 doi:10.1136/qshc.2008.030494

  • The evolution of the pathway and its role in improving patient care

    • G Mould,
    • J Bowers,
    • M Ghattas
    Qual Saf Health Care 2010;19:5 1-6 Published Online First: 29 April 2010 doi:10.1136/qshc.2009.032961

  • Patient-specific electronic decision support reduces prescription of excessive doses

    • H M Seidling,
    • S P W Schmitt,
    • T Bruckner,
    • J Kaltschmidt,
    • M G Pruszydlo,
    • C Senger,
    • T Bertsche,
    • I Walter-Sack,
    • W E Haefeli
    Qual Saf Health Care 2010;19:5 1-7 Published Online First: 27 April 2010 doi:10.1136/qshc.2009.033175

  • Electronic health records and adverse drug events after patient transfer

    • K S Boockvar,
    • E E Livote,
    • N Goldstein,
    • J R Nebeker,
    • A Siu,
    • T Fried
    Qual Saf Health Care 2010;19:5 1-5 Published Online First: 19 August 2010 doi:10.1136/qshc.2009.033050

  • Assessment of patient safety culture in Saudi Arabian hospitals

    • H A Alahmadi
    Qual Saf Health Care 2010;19:5 1-5 Published Online First: 29 April 2010 doi:10.1136/qshc.2009.033258

  • Quality systems to improve care in older patients with urinary incontinence receiving home care: do they work?

    • M F M T Du Moulin,
    • M N Chenault,
    • F E S Tan,
    • J P H Hamers,
    • R H G Halfens
    Qual Saf Health Care 2010;19:5 1-7 Published Online First: 8 April 2010 doi:10.1136/qshc.2008.029280

  • Clinical simulation in maternity (CSiM): interprofessional learning through simulation team training

    • Lyn Gum,
    • Jennene Greenhill,
    • Kerry Dix
    Qual Saf Health Care 2010;19:5 1-5 Published Online First: 3 August 2010 doi:10.1136/qshc.2008.030767

  • Multilayered approach to patient safety culture

    • Teemu Reiman,
    • Elina Pietikäinen,
    • Pia Oedewald
    Qual Saf Health Care 2010;19:5 1-5 Published Online First: 19 August 2010 doi:10.1136/qshc.2008.029793

  • Medication prescribing and monitoring errors in primary care: a report from the Practice Partner Research Network

    • A M Wessell,
    • C Litvin,
    • R G Jenkins,
    • P J Nietert,
    • L S Nemeth,
    • S M Ornstein
    Qual Saf Health Care 2010;19:5 1-5 Published Online First: 22 April 2010 doi:10.1136/qshc.2009.034678

  • Patient and public involvement in clinical guidelines: international experiences and future perspectives

    • Antoine Boivin,
    • Kay Currie,
    • Béatrice Fervers,
    • Javier Gracia,
    • Marian James,
    • Catherine Marshall,
    • Carol Sakala,
    • Sylvia Sanger,
    • Judi Strid,
    • Victoria Thomas,
    • Trudy van der Weijden,
    • Richard Grol,
    • Jako Burgers
    • , on behalf of G-I-N PUBLIC
    Qual Saf Health Care 2010;19:5 1-4 Published Online First: 27 April 2010 doi:10.1136/qshc.2009.034835

  • Using quality-improvement methods to reduce variation in surfactant administration

    • Laurel Bookman,
    • Rachel Troy,
    • Martin McCaffrey,
    • Greg Randolph
    Qual Saf Health Care 2010;19:5 1-4 Published Online First: 1 July 2010 doi:10.1136/qshc.2009.034967

  • A core questionnaire for the assessment of patient satisfaction in academic hospitals in The Netherlands: development and first results in a nationwide study

    • S M Kleefstra,
    • R B Kool,
    • C M A Veldkamp,
    • A C M Winters-van der Meer,
    • M A P Mens,
    • G H Blijham,
    • J C J M de Haes
    Qual Saf Health Care 2010;19:5 1-6 Published Online First: 24 June 2010 doi:10.1136/qshc.2008.030825

  • Validation of Hospital Administrative Dataset for adverse event screening

    • Sandra Verelst,
    • Jessica Jacques,
    • Koen Van den Heede,
    • Pierre Gillet,
    • Philippe Kolh,
    • Arthur Vleugels,
    • Walter Sermeus
    Qual Saf Health Care 2010;19:5 1-5 Published Online First: 27 April 2010 doi:10.1136/qshc.2009.034306

  • Prospective pilot intervention study to prevent medication errors in drugs administered to children by mouth or gastric tube: a programme for nurses, physicians and parents

    • T Bertsche,
    • A Bertsche,
    • E-M Krieg,
    • N Kunz,
    • K Bergmann,
    • G Hanke,
    • T Hoppe-Tichy,
    • F Ebinger,
    • WE Haefeli
    Qual Saf Health Care 2010;19:5 1-5 Published Online First: 8 April 2010 doi:10.1136/qshc.2009.033753

  • Reducing referral delays in colorectal cancer diagnosis: is it about how you ask?

    • Hardeep Singh,
    • Laura A Petersen,
    • Kuang Daci,
    • Clyde Collins,
    • Myrna Khan,
    • Hashem B El-Serag
    Qual Saf Health Care 2010;19:5 1-6 Published Online First: 27 June 2010 doi:10.1136/qshc.2009.033712

  • Study of patient complaints reported over 30 months at a large heart centre in Tehran

    • Jila Manouchehri Moghadam,
    • Hossein Ibrahimipour,
    • Ali Sari Akbari,
    • Mohammad Farahbakhsh,
    • Zohreh Khoshgoftar
    Qual Saf Health Care 2010;19:5 1-5 Published Online First: 14 June 2010 doi:10.1136/qshc.2009.033654

  • Errors associated with the preparation of aseptic products in UK hospital pharmacies: lessons from the national aseptic error reporting scheme

    • Richard Bateman,
    • Parastou Donyai
    Qual Saf Health Care 2010;19:5 1-6 Published Online First: 27 April 2010 doi:10.1136/qshc.2009.034751

  • Prospective assessment of hospital-acquired bloosdstream infections: how many may be preventable?

    • Christine Bonnal,
    • Bruno Mourvillier,
    • Régis Bronchard,
    • Danielle de Paula,
    • Laurence Armand-Lefevre,
    • François L'heriteau,
    • Jean-Luc Quenon,
    • Jean-Christophe Lucet
    Qual Saf Health Care 2010;19:5 1-5 Published Online First: 27 May 2010 doi:10.1136/qshc.2008.030296

  • Consistency of performance indicators for cardiovascular risk management across procedures and panels

    • Jan van Lieshout,
    • Elvira Nouwens,
    • Margriet Bouma,
    • Cor Spreeuwenberg,
    • Michel Wensing
    Qual Saf Health Care 2010;19:5 1-6 Published Online First: 28 May 2010 doi:10.1136/qshc.2009.037481

  • Safety through redundancy: a case study of in-hospital patient transfers

    • Mei-Sing Ong,
    • Enrico Coiera
    Qual Saf Health Care 2010;19:5 1-7 Published Online First: 29 July 2010 doi:10.1136/qshc.2009.035972

  • Patient report on information given, consultation time and safety in primary care

    • José Joaquín Mira,
    • Cristina Nebot,
    • Susana Lorenzo,
    • Virtudes Pérez-Jover
    Qual Saf Health Care 2010;19:5 1-4 Published Online First: 27 May 2010 doi:10.1136/qshc.2009.037978

  • Patients providing the answers: narrowing the gap in data quality for emergency care

    • Stephen C Porter,
    • Peter Forbes,
    • Shannon Manzi,
    • Leslie A Kalish
    Qual Saf Health Care 2010;19:5 1-5 Published Online First: 27 May 2010 doi:10.1136/qshc.2009.032540

  • Improving follow-up in hospitalised children

    • Gary L McPhail,
    • Mathew D Ednick,
    • Matthew C Fenchel,
    • Rhonda VanDyke,
    • Amrita Chima,
    • Raouf S Amin,
    • Michael Seid
    Qual Saf Health Care 2010;19:5 1-4 Published Online First: 27 May 2010 doi:10.1136/qshc.2009.034538

  • Organisational efforts to improve quality while reducing healthcare disparities: the case of breast cancer screening among Arab women in Israel

    • Rachel Wilf-Miron,
    • Noya Galai,
    • Amal Gabali,
    • Irene Lewinhoff,
    • Orna Shem Tov,
    • Omri Lernau,
    • Joshua Shemer
    Qual Saf Health Care 2010;19:5 1-6 Published Online First: 17 June 2010 doi:10.1136/qshc.2008.029645

  • Documenting organisational development in general practice using a group-based assessment method: the Maturity Matrix

    • Tina Eriksson,
    • Volkert Dirk Siersma,
    • Louise Løgstrup,
    • Martin Sandberg Buch,
    • Glyn Elwyn,
    • Adrian Edwards
    Qual Saf Health Care 2010;19:5 1-7 Published Online First: 1 July 2010 doi:10.1136/qshc.2009.033787

  • Usefulness of a national parent experience survey in quality improvement: views of paediatric department employees

    • Hilde Hestad Iversen,
    • Øyvind Andresen Bjertnæs,
    • Gøril Groven,
    • Geir Bukholm
    Qual Saf Health Care 2010;19:5 1-4 Published Online First: 31 May 2010 doi:10.1136/qshc.2009.034298
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  • Metrics for monitoring local inequalities in access to maternity care: developing a basket of markers from routinely available data

    • S F Murray,
    • A M Buller,
    • S Bewley,
    • J Sandall
    Qual Saf Health Care 2010;19:5 1-5 Published Online First: 4 August 2010 doi:10.1136/qshc.2008.032136

  • Tailoring adverse drug event surveillance to the paediatric inpatient

    • Andrea L Long,
    • Monica M Horvath,
    • Heidi Cozart,
    • Julie Eckstrand,
    • Julie Whitehurst,
    • Jeffrey Ferranti
    Qual Saf Health Care 2010;19:5 1-5 Published Online First: 28 May 2010 doi:10.1136/qshc.2009.032680
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  • Patient-held medical records for patients with chronic disease: a systematic review

    • Henry Ko,
    • Tari Turner,
    • Christine Jones,
    • Caron Hill
    Qual Saf Health Care 2010;19:5 1-7 Published Online First: 28 May 2010 doi:10.1136/qshc.2009.037531

  • Multidose drug dispensing and discrepancies between medication records

    • Liv Johanne Wekre,
    • Olav Spigset,
    • Olav Sletvold,
    • Janne Kutschera Sund,
    • Anders Grimsmo
    Qual Saf Health Care 2010;19:5 1-4 Published Online First: 4 August 2010 doi:10.1136/qshc.2009.038745

  • Lean implementation in primary care health visiting services in National Health Service UK

    • A L Grove,
    • J O Meredith,
    • M Macintyre,
    • J Angelis,
    • K Neailey
    Qual Saf Health Care 2010;19:5 1-5 Published Online First: 28 May 2010 doi:10.1136/qshc.2009.039719

  • Medical engagement in organisation-wide safety and quality-improvement programmes: experience in the UK Safer Patients Initiative

    • Anam Parand,
    • Susan Burnett,
    • Jonathan Benn,
    • Sandra Iskander,
    • Anna Pinto,
    • Charles Vincent
    Qual Saf Health Care 2010;19:5 1-5 Published Online First: 9 June 2010 doi:10.1136/qshc.2009.036368

Quality improvement reports - Electronic pages

  • A structured women's preventive health clinic for residents: a quality improvement project designed to meet training needs and improve cervical cancer screening rates

    • Mamta K Singh,
    • Douglas Einstadter,
    • Renee Lawrence
    Qual Saf Health Care 2010;19:5 1-6 Published Online First: 10 August 2010 doi:10.1136/qshc.2009.033274

  • Introduction of a comprehensive management protocol for severe sepsis is associated with sustained improvements in timeliness of care and survival

    • R MacRedmond,
    • K Hollohan,
    • R Stenstrom,
    • R Nebre,
    • D Jaswal,
    • P Dodek
    Qual Saf Health Care 2010;19:5 1-7 Published Online First: 29 July 2010 doi:10.1136/qshc.2009.033407

  • A multi-faceted approach to the physiologically unstable patient

    • Gillian Robb,
    • Mary Seddon
    Qual Saf Health Care 2010;19:5 1-6 Published Online First: 29 July 2010 doi:10.1136/qshc.2008.031807

  • Introduction of the chronic care model into an academic rheumatology clinic

    • S Ranatunga,
    • S Myers,
    • S Redding,
    • S L Scaife,
    • M D Francis,
    • M L Francis
    Qual Saf Health Care 2010;19:5 1-4 Published Online First: 27 April 2010 doi:10.1136/qshc.2009.035030

  • The value of ‘gentle reminder’ on safe medical behaviour

    • Ido Erev,
    • Dotan Rodensky,
    • Mark-Alain Levi,
    • Michal Englard-Hershler,
    • Hanna Admi,
    • Yoel Donchin
    Qual Saf Health Care 2010;19:5 1-3 Published Online First: 31 May 2010 doi:10.1136/qshc.2009.032763

  • Lessons learnt from attempting to assess the evidence base for a complex intervention introduced into New Zealand general practice

    • Margaret Horsburgh,
    • Felicity Goodyear-Smith,
    • Janine Bycroft,
    • Faith Mahony,
    • Dianne Roy,
    • Denise Miller,
    • Erin Donnell
    Qual Saf Health Care 2010;19:5 1-3 Published Online First: 8 April 2010 doi:10.1136/qshc.2009.034439

  • Email triage is an effective, efficient and safe way of managing new referrals to a neurologist

    • Victor Patterson,
    • Jenny Humphreys,
    • Mark Henderson,
    • Grainne Crealey
    Qual Saf Health Care 2010;19:5 1-4 Published Online First: 28 May 2010 doi:10.1136/qshc.2009.038513

  • The impact of a set of interventions to reduce interruptions and distractions to nurses during medication administration

    • Eileen Relihan,
    • Valerie O'Brien,
    • Sharon O'Hara,
    • Bernard Silke
    Qual Saf Health Care 2010;19:5 1-6 Published Online First: 28 May 2010 doi:10.1136/qshc.2009.036871

  • Adverse event categorisation across NHS Scotland

    • Alastair Ross,
    • Matthew Plunkett,
    • Kerry Walsh
    Qual Saf Health Care 2010;19:5 1-4 Published Online First: 17 June 2010 doi:10.1136/qshc.2009.035279

  • Electronic consultation as an alternative to hospital referral for patients with chronic kidney disease: a novel application for networked electronic health records to improve the accessibility and efficiency of healthcare

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    • Angela Grange,
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