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Table of contents

September 2002 - Volume 11 - 3

Quality and Safety in Health Care: 11 (3)

Editorials

Safety management: Medical applications of industrial safety science (1 September, 2002) Free
T W van der Schaaf
News media: Breaking bad news (1 September, 2002) Free
M L Millenson

Commentaries

Guideline adherence: Guideline adherence rates and interprofessional variation (1 September, 2002)
R Peveler
Length of in-hospital stay: Length of in-hospital stay and its relationship to quality of care (1 September, 2002)
A Clarke
Monitoring of rare events: Pediatric Peri-Operative Cardiac Arrest (POCA) Registry (1 September, 2002)
S Jones, A Raffles
National Service Frameworks: National Service Frameworks as tools for quality improvement (1 September, 2002)
K Checkland, M Marshall
Quality improvement reports: Can the sum of projects end up in a program? The strategies that shape quality of care research (1 September, 2002)
Vahé A Kazandjian

Original Articles

Guideline adherence rates and interprofessional variation in a vignette study of depression (1 September, 2002)
H Tiemeier, W J de Vries, M van het Loo, J P Kahan, N Klazinga, R Grol, H Rigter
Relationship between hospital length of stay and quality of care in patients with congestive heart failure (1 September, 2002)
M P Kossovsky, F P Sarasin, P Chopard, M Louis-Simonet, P Sigaud, T V Perneger, J-M Gaspoz
Setting priorities for patient safety (1 September, 2002)
W B Runciman, M J Edmonds, M Pradhan
Secondary prevention following myocardial infarction: evidence from an audit in South Wales that the National Service Framework for coronary heart disease does not address all the issues (1 September, 2002)
P Underwood, P Beck
A preliminary taxonomy of medical errors in family practice (1 September, 2002)
S M Dovey, D S Meyers, R L Phillips, L A Green, G E Fryer, J M Galliher, J Kappus, P Grob

Quality improvement report

Quality improvement for patients with hip fracture: experience from a multi-site audit (1 September, 2002)
C Freeman, C Todd, C Camilleri-Ferrante, C Laxton, P Murrell, C R Palmer, M Parker, B Payne, N Rushton

Organisational matters: national initiatives

Lessons from the Australian Patient Safety Foundation: setting up a national patient safety surveillance system—is this the right model? (1 September, 2002)
W B Runciman
Unexpected cardiac arrest among children during surgery: a North American registry to elucidate the incidence and causes of anesthesia related cardiac arrest (1 September, 2002)
K L Posner, J Geiduschek, C M Haberkern, C Ramamoorthy, A Hackel, J P Morray

Safer prescribing

Learning from prescribing errors (1 September, 2002)
B Dean
Information technology and medication safety: what is the benefit? (1 September, 2002)
R Kaushal, D W Bates
Commentary (1 September, 2002)
N Barber

Learning from other industries

Lessons learned from non-medical industries: root cause analysis as culture change at a chemical plant (1 September, 2002)
J S Carroll, J W Rudolph, S Hatakenaka

Quality improvement research

Evaluation of quality improvement programmes (1 September, 2002)
J Øvretveit, D Gustafson

Consumers' view

Patients' eye view (1 September, 2002)

Classic paper

Preventable anesthesia mishaps: a study of human factors* (1 September, 2002)
Jeffrey B Cooper, Ronald S Newbower, Charlene D Long, Bucknam McPeek
Commentary (1 September, 2002)
E C Pierce

Effectiveness bulletin

Interventions for the treatment and management of chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis (1 September, 2002)
A-M Bagnall, P Whiting, R Richardson, A J Sowden

JournalScan

The Wanless report: engaging the NHS with patient needs? (1 September, 2002)
Tom Smith

CyberSpace

Safe and effective use of medications: a global concern (1 September, 2002) Free
A L Scheffler

Heroes and martyrs of quality and safety

Bruce Psaty and the risks of calcium channel blockers (1 September, 2002)
R A Deyo

Letter to the editor

External research service with critical appraisal of the medical literature at a university medical centre (1 September, 2002)
A Juche, U Euler, B Brüggenjürgen, S N Willich, R Kunz

Book reviews

Shared Decision Making. Patient Involvement in Clinical Practice (1 September, 2002)
R Say
Alzheimer's Disease: Policy and Practice across Europe (1 September, 2002)
J Herzberg

Cover Story

A lesson for our times (1 September, 2002)
J W Sender, A Crichton-Harris

Action points

ACTION POINTS (1 September, 2002)
Tim Albert

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