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Original research

• Quantification of the Hawthorne effect in hand hygiene compliance monitoring using an electronic monitoring system: a retrospective cohort study (7 July, 2014)

  Jocelyn A Srigley, Colin D Furness, G Ross Baker, Michael Gardam
• Outcomes in patients with heart failure treated in hospitals with varying admission rates: population-based cohort study (30 July, 2014)

  R Sacha Bhatia, Peter C Austin, Therese A Stukel, Michael J Schull, Alice Chong, Jack V Tu, Douglas S Lee
• Read-back improves information transfer in simulated clinical crises (11 August, 2014)

  Matt Boyd, David Cumin, Braam Lombard, Jane Torrie, Nina Civil, Jennifer Weller
• Cost and turn-around time display decreases inpatient ordering of reference laboratory tests: a time series (27 August, 2014)

  Daniel Z Fang, Gurmeet Sran, Daniel Gessner, Pooja D Loftus, Ann Folkins, John Y Christopher, Lisa Shieh
• Insights from staff nurses and managers on unit-specific nursing performance dashboards: a qualitative study (5 September, 2014)

  Lianne Jeffs, Susan Beswick, Joyce Lo, Yonda Lai, Aline Chhun, Heather Campbell
• Creating spaces in intensive care for safe communication: a video-reflexive ethnographic study (10 September, 2014)

  Su-yin Hor, Rick Iedema, Elizabeth Manias
• Personalised physician learning intervention to improve hypertension and lipid control: randomised trial comparing two methods of physician profiling (16 September, 2014)

  Patrick J O'Connor, David J Magid, JoAnn M Sperl-Hillen, David W Price, Stephen E Asche, William A Rush, Heidi L Ekstrom, David W Brand, Heather M Tavel, Olga V Godlevsky, Paul E Johnson, Karen L Margolis
• Exploring new avenues to assess the sharp end of patient safety: an analysis of nationally aggregated peer review data (26 September, 2014)

  Derek W Meeks, Ashley N D Meyer, Barbara Rose, Yuri N Walker, Hardeep Singh