BMJ Quality & Safety

is an international peer-reviewed journal covering the science of improvement across healthcare service and provision.

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The Journal encourages the science of improvement, debate, and new thinking on improving the quality of healthcare. The journal is led by a patient-focused editorial team with a view towards helping all team members improve their knowledge with the overall goal of improving patient care. The journal integrates the academic and clinical aspects of quality and safety in healthcare by encouraging academics to create evidence and knowledge valued by clinicians and clinicians to value using evidence and knowledge to improve quality.

BMJ Quality & Safety is a Plan S compliant Transformative Journal

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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.

Information is also provided on editorial policies and open access.

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Latest Articles

Original research:

Quality and reporting of large-scale improvement programmes: a review of maternity initiatives in the English NHS, 2010-2023

30 November 2023

Systematic review:

Health services under pressure: a scoping review and development of a taxonomy of adaptive strategies

29 November 2023

Original research:

Patient safety in remote primary care encounters: multimethod qualitative study combining Safety I and Safety II analysis

29 November 2023

Original research:

Connecting pathogen transmission and healthcare worker cognition: a cognitive task analysis of infection prevention and control practices during simulated patient care

28 November 2023

Editorials:

Changing the patient safety mindset: can safety cases help?

24 November 2023

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Original research:

Burden of serious harms from diagnostic error in the USA

17 July 2023

Editorial:

Emotional safety is patient safety

2 February 2023

Original research:

Nurse staffing and inpatient mortality in the English National Health Service: a retrospective longitudinal study

19 April 2023

Original research:

Communication about sexual orientation and gender between clinicians, LGBT+ people facing serious illness and their significant others: a qualitative interview study of experiences, preferences and recommendations

19 January 2023

Original research:

National improvements in resident physician-reported patient safety after limiting first-year resident physicians’ extended duration work shifts: a pooled analysis of prospective cohort studies

19 January 2023

Current Issue

Editorials:

The Ethical Complexity of Restricting Visitors during the COVID-19 Pandemic

20 November 2023

Editorials:

Meeting external demands to improve quality and safety of care: learning systematically from the literature

20 November 2023

Editorials:

Targets: unintended and unanticipated effects

20 November 2023

Editorials:

Its time for the field of geriatrics to invest in implementation science

20 November 2023

Original research:

Patient safety and hospital visiting at the end of life during COVID-19 restrictions in Aotearoa New Zealand: a qualitative study

20 November 2023

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Improving antiplatelet therapy uptake: lessons from the Scottish experience

30 November 2023

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Call for Papers: Striving for equity in the quality and safety of patient care

14 November 2023

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The debriefing toolkit – what are the necessary components?

19 September 2023

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‘What does a good birth look like for you?’ Reimagining our consent in obstetrics

13 July 2023

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Patient safety in remote primary care encounters: multimethod qualitative study combining Safety I and Safety II analysis
28 November 2023

Nurse staffing and inpatient mortality in the English National Health Service: a retrospective longitudinal study
27 September 2022

Burden of serious harms from diagnostic error in the USA
17 July 2023

National improvements in resident physician-reported patient safety after limiting first-year resident physicians’ extended duration work shifts: a pooled analysis of prospective cohort studies
10 May 2022

Economic analysis of the prevalence and clinical and economic burden of medication error in England
11 June 2020

Predictors and population health outcomes of persistent high GP turnover in English general practices: a retrospective observational study
23 January 2023

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