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Original research

• Associations between exemption and survival outcomes in the UK's primary care pay-for-performance programme: a retrospective cohort study (1 December, 2015)

  Evangelos Kontopantelis, David A Springate, Darren M Ashcroft, Jose M Valderas, Sabine N van der Veer, David Reeves, Bruce Guthrie, Tim Doran
• The prevalence of medical error related to end-of-life communication in Canadian hospitals: results of a multicentre observational study (9 November, 2015) Free

  Daren K Heyland, Roy Ilan, Xuran Jiang, John J You, Peter Dodek
• Patient safety climate strength: a concept that requires more attention (9 October, 2015)

  Liane Ginsburg, Debra Gilin Oore
• A mixed-methods investigation of health professionals’ perceptions of a physiological track and trigger system (9 October, 2015)

  Sinéad Lydon, Dara Byrne, Gozie Offiah, Louise Gleeson, Paul O'Connor
• Do patients with gastrointestinal cancer want to decide where they have tests and surgery? A questionnaire study of provider choice (14 October, 2015)

  Ben E Byrne, Omar D Faiz, Charles Vincent
• Underlying risk factors for prescribing errors in long-term aged care: a qualitative study (14 October, 2015)

  Amina Tariq, Andrew Georgiou, Magdalena Raban, Melissa Therese Baysari, Johanna Westbrook