Table of contents

Original research

• Maternity care models in a remote and rural network: assessing clinical appropriateness and outcome indicators (29 March, 2010)

  J Tucker, A McVicar, E Pitchforth, J Farmer, H Bryers
• Local guidelines for the transfer of women from midwifery unit to obstetric unit during labour in England: a systematic appraisal of their quality (29 March, 2010)

  Rachel E Rowe
• Patients' perceptions of early supported discharge for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a qualitative study (8 February, 2010)

  A Clarke, R Sohanpal, G Wilson, S Taylor
• Real-time clinical alerting: effect of an automated paging system on response time to critical laboratory values—a randomised controlled trial (29 March, 2010)

  E Etchells, N KJ Adhikari, C Cheung, R Fowler, A Kiss, S Quan, W Sibbald, B Wong
• Why isn't ‘time out’ being implemented? An exploratory study (8 March, 2010)

  Brigid M Gillespie, Wendy Chaboyer, Marianne Wallis, Clare Fenwick
• Quality assessment in surgical care departments: proposal for a scoring system in terms of structure and process (29 March, 2010)

  J Najjar-Pellet, P Jambou, O Jonquet, J Fabry
• A framework for measuring quality and promoting accountability across silos: the case of mental disorders and co-occurring conditions (8 February, 2010)

  A M Kilbourne, C Fullerton, D Dausey, H A Pincus, R C Hermann
• Teamwork on inpatient medical units: assessing attitudes and barriers (29 March, 2010)

  K J O'Leary, C D Ritter, H Wheeler, M K Szekendi, T S Brinton, M V Williams