Table of contents

Original research

• Effects of a clinical pharmacist service on health-related quality of life and prescribing of drugs: a randomised controlled trial (5 January, 2011)

  Lina Bladh, Ellinor Ottosson, John Karlsson, Lars Klintberg, Susanna M Wallerstedt
• Rigour of development does not AGREE with recommendations in practice guidelines on the use of ice for acute ankle sprains (21 February, 2011)

  S Van de Velde, A Heselmans, P Donceel, P Vandekerckhove, D Ramaekers, B Aertgeerts
• Using prospective clinical surveillance to identify adverse events in hospital (1 March, 2011)

  Alan J Forster, Jim R Worthington, Steven Hawken, Michael Bourke, Fraser Rubens, Kaveh Shojania, Carl van Walraven
• European Surveillance of Antimicrobial Consumption (ESAC): disease-specific quality indicators for outpatient antibiotic prescribing (21 March, 2011)

  Niels Adriaenssens, Samuel Coenen, Sarah Tonkin-Crine, Theo J M Verheij, Paul Little, Herman Goossens
• Hospital discharge documentation and risk of rehospitalisation (22 April, 2011)

  Luke O Hansen, Amy Strater, Lisa Smith, Jungwha Lee, Robert Press, Norman Ward, John A Weigelt, Peter Boling, Mark V Williams
• A strategy for patient involvement in clinical practice guidelines: methodological approaches (2 April, 2011)

  P Díaz del Campo, J Gracia, J A Blasco, E Andradas
• How reliable is your hospital? A qualitative framework for analysing reliability levels (21 March, 2011)

  David E Ikkersheim, Marc Berg
• Introduction of a new observation chart and education programme is associated with higher rates of vital-sign ascertainment in hospital wards (25 March, 2011)

  Helen Cahill, Aaron Jones, Robert Herkes, Kathy Cook, Anne Stirling, Tanya Halbert, Amanda Yates, Sean Lal, Alan Gardo, Roy Donnelly, David J Gattas
• The Frankfurt Patient Safety Climate Questionnaire for General Practices (FraSiK): analysis of psychometric properties (13 May, 2011)

  Barbara Hoffmann, Olga Maria Domanska, Zeycan Albay, Vera Mueller, Corina Guethlin, Eric J Thomas, Ferdinand M Gerlach