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Original research

• Effectiveness of patient safety training in equipping medical students to recognise safety hazards and propose robust interventions (19 February, 2010)

  L W Hall, S D Scott, K R Cox, J W Gosbee, B J Boshard, K Moylan, K C Dellsperger
• The hospital standardised mortality ratio: a powerful tool for Dutch hospitals to assess their quality of care? (19 February, 2010)

  B Jarman, D Pieter, A A van der Veen, R B Kool, P Aylin, A Bottle, G P Westert, S Jones
• Health service accreditation as a predictor of clinical and organisational performance: a blinded, random, stratified study (19 February, 2010)

  Jeffrey Braithwaite, David Greenfield, Johanna Westbrook, Marjorie Pawsey, Mary Westbrook, Robert Gibberd, Justine Naylor, Sally Nathan, Maureen Robinson, Bill Runciman, Margaret Jackson, Joanne Travaglia, Brian Johnston, Desmond Yen, Heather McDonald, Lena Low, Sally Redman, Betty Johnson, Angus Corbett, Darlene Hennessy, John Clark, Judie Lancaster
• Using a clinical decision support system to determine the quality of antimicrobial dosing in intensive care patients with renal insufficiency (19 February, 2010)

  P J Helmons, Rene J Grouls, A N Roos, A J Bindels, S J Wessels-Basten, E W Ackerman, E H Korsten
• Quality improvement capacity: a survey of hospital quality managers (19 February, 2010)

  A R Gagliardi, C Majewski, J C Victor, G R Baker
• Evidence-based commissioning: using population impact measures to help primary care trusts estimate the benefit of interventions in diabetes and heart failure (19 February, 2010)

  D T Spence, G Bandesha, S Horsley, R F Heller