Quality and Safety in Health Care: 16 (5)

Editorial

Shared medical appointments based on the chronic care model: a quality improvement project to address the challenges of patients with diabetes with high cardiovascular risk (3 October, 2007)
Susan Kirsh, Sharon Watts, Kristina Pascuzzi, Mary Ellen O’Day, David Davidson, Gerald Strauss, Elizabeth O Kern, David C Aron
Monitoring quality standards in the provision of non-prescription medicines from Australian Community Pharmacies: results of a national programme (3 October, 2007)
S I Benrimoj, Joel B Werner, Catherine Raffaele, Alison S Roberts, Filipa A Costa
Primary healthcare teams’ views on using mortality data to review clinical policies (3 October, 2007)
Emma Sullivan, Richard Baker, David Jones, Hanna Blackledge, Aly Rashid, Azhar Farooqi, Justin Allen
Improving influenza immunisation for high-risk children and adolescents (3 October, 2007)
Maria T Britto, Pamela J Schoettker, Geralyn M Pandzik, Jeanne Weiland, Keith E Mandel

French national survey of inpatient adverse events prospectively assessed with ward staff (3 October, 2007)
Philippe Michel, Jean Luc Quenon, Ahmed Djihoud, Sophie Tricaud-Vialle, Anne Marie de Sarasqueta

Outcomes of a quality improvement project integrating mental health into primary care (3 October, 2007)
Bradley V Watts, Brian Shiner, Andrew Pomerantz, Patricia Stender, William B Weeks
Using computer simulation to reduce access time for outpatient departments (3 October, 2007)
S G Elkhuizen, S F Das, P J M Bakker, J A M Hontelez

Application of statistical process control in healthcare improvement: systematic review (3 October, 2007) Free
Johan Thor, Jonas Lundberg, Jakob Ask, Jesper Olsson, Cheryl Carli, Karin Pukk Härenstam, Mats Brommels

Are we still performing too many blood tests? (3 October, 2007)
Arun Krishnamurthy, Debashish Dutta, Jeffrey Phillips, Naseena Methal