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Original Articles

• Emergency care of older people who fall: a missed opportunity (1 December, 2006)

  Helen A Snooks, Mary Halter, Jacqueline C T Close, Wai-Yee Cheung, Fionna Moore, Stephen E Roberts
• Experiences of health professionals who conducted root cause analyses after undergoing a safety improvement programme (1 December, 2006)

  Jeffrey Braithwaite, Mary T Westbrook, Nadine A Mallock, Joanne F Travaglia, Rick A Iedema
• Patient safety culture assessment in the nursing home (1 December, 2006)

  S M Handler, N G Castle, S A Studenski, S Perera, D B Fridsma, D A Nace, J T Hanlon
• A culture of patient safety in nursing homes (1 December, 2006)

  N G Castle, K E Sonon
• Medication errors in mental healthcare: a systematic review (1 December, 2006)

  Ian D Maidment, Paul Lelliott, Carol Paton
• Effect of discharge instructions on readmission of hospitalised patients with heart failure: do all of the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations heart failure core measures reflect better care? (1 December, 2006)

  Monica VanSuch, James M Naessens, Robert J Stroebel, Jeanne M Huddleston, Arthur R Williams
• Effect of computerisation on the quality and safety of chemotherapy prescription (1 December, 2006)

  Marc Voeffray, André Pannatier, Roger Stupp, Nadia Fucina, Serge Leyvraz, Jean-Blaise Wasserfallen
• A theory-based instrument to evaluate team communication in the operating room: balancing measurement authenticity and reliability (1 December, 2006)

  Lorelei Lingard, Glenn Regehr, Sherry Espin, Sarah Whyte
• Nurses’ attitudes to a medical emergency team service in a teaching hospital (1 December, 2006)

  D Jones, I Baldwin, T McIntyre, D Story, I Mercer, A Miglic, D Goldsmith, R Bellomo
• Does telling people what they have been doing change what they do? A systematic review of the effects of audit and feedback (1 December, 2006)

  Gro Jamtvedt, Jane M Young, Doris T Kristoffersen, Mary Ann O’Brien, Andrew D Oxman