Table of contents

Original research

• The association between a prolonged stay in the emergency department and adverse events in older patients admitted to hospital: a retrospective cohort study (5 January, 2011)

  S Ackroyd-Stolarz, J Read Guernsey, N J MacKinnon, G Kovacs
• Towards a model of surgeons' leadership in the operating room (5 January, 2011)

  Sarah Henrickson Parker, Steven Yule, Rhona Flin, Aileen McKinley
• Student-observed surgical safety practices across an urban regional health authority (12 January, 2011)

  Jessica Spence, Barb Goodwin, Carol Enns, Heather Dean
• No-fault compensation for treatment injury in New Zealand: identifying threats to patient safety in primary care (12 January, 2011)

  Katharine Wallis, Susan Dovey
• Quality for home palliative care: an Italian metropolitan multicentre JCI-certified model (2 February, 2011)

  Franco Rizzi, Massimo Pizzuto, Laura Lodetti, Oscar Corli, Daria Da Col, Maria Eugenia Damiani, Dorian Mihali, Laura Piva, Luigi Saita, Maria Vinci, Antonio Bonaldi, Milan Palliative Care Group Investigators
• A prospective study of paediatric cardiac surgical microsystems: assessing the relationships between non-routine events, teamwork and patient outcomes (13 April, 2011)

  Jan Maarten Schraagen, Ton Schouten, Meike Smit, Felix Haas, Dolf van der Beek, Josine van de Ven, Paul Barach
• How does context affect interventions to improve patient safety? An assessment of evidence from studies of five patient safety practices and proposals for research (13 April, 2011)

  John C Øvretveit, Paul G Shekelle, Sydney M Dy, Kathryn M McDonald, Susanne Hempel, Peter Pronovost, Lisa Rubenstein, Stephanie L Taylor, Robbie Foy, Robert M Wachter
• What context features might be important determinants of the effectiveness of patient safety practice interventions? (26 May, 2011) Free

  Stephanie L Taylor, Sydney Dy, Robbie Foy, Susanne Hempel, Kathryn M McDonald, John Øvretveit, Peter J Pronovost, Lisa V Rubenstein, Robert M Wachter, Paul G Shekelle
• A framework for classifying patient safety practices: results from an expert consensus process (24 May, 2011)

  Sydney M Dy, Stephanie L Taylor, Lauren H Carr, Robbie Foy, Peter J Pronovost, John Øvretveit, Robert M Wachter, Lisa V Rubenstein, Susanne Hempel, Kathryn M McDonald, Paul G Shekelle