Table of contents

Original research

• Ethics, oversight and quality improvement initiatives (27 May, 2010)

  Holly A Taylor, Peter J Pronovost, Jeremy Sugarman
• National quality campaigns: who benefits? (9 June, 2010)

  Luke O Hansen, Jeph Herrin, Ingrid M Nembhard, Susan Busch, Christina T Yuan, Harlan M Krumholz, Elizabeth H Bradley
• Identifying quality improvement intervention evaluations: is consensus achievable? (14 July, 2010)

  M S Danz, L V Rubenstein, S Hempel, R Foy, M Suttorp, M M Farmer, P G Shekelle
• The impact of interruptions on clinical task completion (12 May, 2010)

  Johanna I Westbrook, Enrico Coiera, William T M Dunsmuir, Bruce M Brown, Norm Kelk, Richard Paoloni, Cuong Tran
• Quality improvement in community health centres: the role of microsystem characteristics in the implementation of a diabetes prevention initiative (17 June, 2010)

  Calie Santana, Marcella Nunez-Smith, Anne Camp, Erin Ruppe, David Berg, Leslie Curry
• A baseline study of anticoagulant management in UK hospitals (2 August, 2010)

  Annette Lankshear, Jane Harden, Karin Lowson
• The quality, safety and content of telephone and face-to-face consultations: a comparative study (29 April, 2010)

  B McKinstry, V Hammersley, C Burton, H Pinnock, R Elton, J Dowell, N Sawdon, D Heaney, G Elwyn, A Sheikh
• Interruptions and distractions in healthcare: review and reappraisal (8 April, 2010)

  A J Rivera-Rodriguez, B-T Karsh
• Organisational readiness: exploring the preconditions for success in organisation-wide patient safety improvement programmes (8 March, 2010)

  Susan Burnett, Jonathan Benn, Anna Pinto, Anam Parand, Sandra Iskander, Charles Vincent
• Patient handovers within the hospital: translating knowledge from motor racing to healthcare (17 June, 2010)

  Ken Catchpole, Richard Sellers, Allan Goldman, Peter McCulloch, Sue Hignett