BMJ Quality & Safety
is an international peer-reviewed journal covering the science of improvement across healthcare service and provision.
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BMJ Quality & Safety accepts submissions of a wide range of article types, including original research, reviews and research & reporting metholodology.
The Author Information section provides specific article requirements to help you turn your research into an article suitable for BMJ Quality & Safety.
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Latest Articles
Original research:
Large-scale observational study of AI-based patient and surgical material verification system in ophthalmology: real-world evaluation in 37 529 cases29 November 2024
Original research:
Improving the maternity experience for Black, African, Caribbean and mixed-Black families in an integrated care system: a multigroup community and interprofessional co-production prioritisation exercise using nominal group technique27 November 2024
Viewpoints:
The problem with uptake as a quality metric for population-based screening programmes26 November 2024
Research and reporting methodology:
Risk-adjusted observed minus expected cumulative sum (RA O-E CUSUM) chart for visualisation and monitoring of surgical outcomes25 November 2024
Most Read Articles
Original research:
Patient safety in remote primary care encounters: multimethod qualitative study combining Safety I and Safety II analysis16 August 2024
Systematic review:
What and when to debrief: a scoping review examining interprofessional clinical debriefing24 April 2024
Short report:
Retrospective cohort study of wrong-patient imaging order errors: how many reach the patient?19 January 2024
Current Issue
Editorials:
Safety netting: time to stop relying on verbal interventions to manage diagnostic uncertainty?20 November 2024
Editorials:
Beyond polypharmacy to the brave new world of minimum datasets and artificial intelligence: thumbing a nose to Henry20 November 2024
Editorials:
Integration and connection: the key to effectiveness of large-scale pharmacist-led medication reviews?20 November 2024
Original research:
Role of communicating diagnostic uncertainty in the safety-netting process: insights from a vignette study20 November 2024
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