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Original Articles

• Rates and types of events reported to established incident reporting systems in two US hospitals (1 June, 2007)

  Teryl K Nuckols, Douglas S Bell, Honghu Liu, Susan M Paddock, Lee H Hilborne
• Evaluation of an intervention aimed at improving voluntary incident reporting in hospitals (1 June, 2007)

  Sue M Evans, Brian J Smith, Adrian Esterman, William B Runciman, Guy Maddern, Karen Stead, Pam Selim, Jane O’Shaughnessy, Sandy Muecke, Sue Jones
• Why poor quality of ethnicity data should not preclude its use for identifying disparities in health and healthcare (1 June, 2007)

  Peter J Aspinall, Bobbie Jacobson
• Safety of telephone triage in general practitioner cooperatives: do triage nurses correctly estimate urgency? (1 June, 2007)

  Paul Giesen, Rosa Ferwerda, Roelie Tijssen, Henk Mokkink, Roeland Drijver, Wil van den Bosch, Richard Grol
• Have Nursing Home Compare quality measure scores changed over time in response to competition? (1 June, 2007)

  Nicholas G Castle, John Engberg, Darren Liu
• Monitoring the rate of re-exploration for excessive bleeding after cardiac surgery in adults (1 June, 2007)

  Rory Wolfe, Stephen Bolsin, Mark Colson, Peter Stow
• What is the role of quality circles in strategies to optimise antibiotic prescribing? A pragmatic cluster-randomised controlled trial in primary care (1 June, 2007)

  M L van Driel, S Coenen, K Dirven, J Lobbestael, I Janssens, P Van Royen, F M Haaijer-Ruskamp, M De Meyere, J De Maeseneer, T Christiaens
• Quality control of surgical and interventional procedures: a review of the CUSUM (1 June, 2007)

  David J Biau, Mathieu Resche-Rigon, Gaëlle Godiris-Petit, Rémy S Nizard, Raphaël Porcher
• Risk assessment in diabetes management: how do general practitioners estimate risks due to diabetes? (1 June, 2007)

  Bertram Häussler, Gisela C Fischer, Sibylle Meyer, Diethard Sturm