Quality and Safety in Health Care: 18 (6)

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Improving healthcare worker hand hygiene: show me more! (2 December, 2009)
Kathryn B Kirkland
Viewing the safety imperative from the French policy perspective (2 December, 2009)
René Amalberti, Charles Bruneau, Armelle Desplanques, Laurent Degos
Patient safety—a view from down under (2 December, 2009)
Merrilyn Walton

Original viewpoint: Transforming healthcare: a safety imperative (2 December, 2009) Free
L Leape, D Berwick, C Clancy, J Conway, P Gluck, J Guest, D Lawrence, J Morath, D O’Leary, P O’Neill, D Pinakiewicz, T Isaac

Improving healthcare worker hand hygiene adherence before patient contact: a before-and-after five-unit multimodal intervention in Tuscany (2 December, 2009)
S Saint, A Conti, A Bartoloni, G Virgili, F Mannelli, S Fumagalli, P di Martino, A A Conti, S R Kaufman, M A M Rogers, G F Gensini
The role of the “champion” in infection prevention: results from a multisite qualitative study (2 December, 2009)
L J Damschroder, J Banaszak-Holl, C P Kowalski, J Forman, S Saint, S L Krein
Use of a risk analysis method to improve care management for outlying inpatients in a university hospital (2 December, 2009)
B Lepage, R Robert, M Lebeau, C Aubeneau, C Silvain, V Migeot
Involvement of parents in critical incidents in a neonatal–paediatric intensive care unit (2 December, 2009)
B Frey, J Ersch, V Bernet, O Baenziger, L Enderli, C Doell
Evidence-based chronic heart failure management programs: reality or myth? (2 December, 2009)
A Driscoll, L Worrall-Carter, D L Hare, P M Davidson, B Riegel, A Tonkin, S Stewart
Do managed clinical networks improve quality of diabetes care? Evidence from a retrospective mixed methods evaluation (2 December, 2009)
A Greene, C Pagliari, S Cunningham, P Donnan, J Evans, A Emslie-Smith, A Morris, B Guthrie

Patient safety attitudes of paediatric trainee physicians (2 December, 2009)
G Parry, L Horowitz, D Goldmann
Bridging the gap between research and practice: review of a targeted hospital inpatient fall prevention programme (2 December, 2009)
A Barker, J Kamar, A Morton, D Berlowitz
Sequential monitoring of hospital adverse events when control charts fail: the example of fall injuries in hospitals (2 December, 2009)
A Barker, A Morton, M Gatton, E Tong, A Clements
Impact of a standard medication chart on prescribing errors: a before-and-after audit (2 December, 2009)
I D Coombes, D A Stowasser, C Reid, C A Mitchell
Feasibility and reliability of PRISMA-Medical for specialty-based incident analysis (2 December, 2009)
C Snijders, T W van der Schaaf, H Klip, R A van Lingen W P F Fetter, A Molendijk
An engineered solution to the maladministration of spinal injections (2 December, 2009)
R Lawton, P Gardner, B Green, C Davey, P Chamberlain, P Phillips, G Hughes
Patient safety on the otolaryngology service: the role of an established rapid response system (2 December, 2009)
C L Oliver, M A DeVita, C J Dunwoody, J T Johnson, J C Sok, R L Simmons
A reduction in cardiac arrests and duration of clinical instability after implementation of a paediatric rapid response system (2 December, 2009)
C C Hanson, G D Randolph, J A Erickson, C M Mayer, J T Bruckel, B D Harris, T S Willis