BMJ Quality & Safety: 21 (12)

Editorial

Narrative synthesis of health service accreditation literature (4 October, 2012)
Reece Hinchcliff, David Greenfield, Max Moldovan, Johanna Irene Westbrook, Marjorie Pawsey, Virginia Mumford, Jeffrey Braithwaite

What's in a name generator? Choosing the right name generators for social network surveys in healthcare quality and safety research (1 September, 2012)
Ronald S Burt, David O Meltzer, Michael Seid, Amy Borgert, Jeanette W Chung, Richard B Colletti, George Dellal, Stacy A Kahn, Heather C Kaplan, Laura E Peterson, Peter Margolis
Managing the after effects of serious patient safety incidents in the NHS: an online survey study (26 September, 2012)
Anna Pinto, Omar Faiz, Charles Vincent
Self-reported uptake of recommendations after dissemination of medication incident alerts (21 July, 2012)
Ka-Chun Cheung, Michel Wensing, Marcel L Bouvy, Peter A G M De Smet, Patricia M L A van den Bemt
Impact of a hospital-wide hand hygiene initiative on healthcare-associated infections: results of an interrupted time series (21 July, 2012) Free
Kathryn B Kirkland, Karen A Homa, Rosalind A Lasky, Judy A Ptak, Eileen A Taylor, Mark E Splaine
Removal of doctors from practice for professional misconduct in Australia and New Zealand (21 July, 2012)
Katie Elkin, Matthew J Spittal, David Elkin, David M Studdert
Reciprocal peer review for quality improvement: an ethnographic case study of the Improving Lung Cancer Outcomes Project (9 August, 2012)
Emma-Louise Aveling, Graham Martin, Senai Jiménez García, Lisa Martin, Georgia Herbert, Natalie Armstrong, Mary Dixon-Woods, Ian Woolhouse

Using Six Sigma to improve once daily gentamicin dosing and therapeutic drug monitoring performance (7 August, 2012)
Sean Egan, Philip G Murphy, Jerome P Fennell, Sinead Kelly, Mary Hickey, Carolyn McLean, Muriel Pate, Ciara Kirke, Annette Whiriskey, Niall Wall, Eddie McCullagh, Joan Murphy, Tim Delaney

Case-mix adjusted hospital mortality is a poor proxy for preventable mortality: a modelling study (15 October, 2012)
Alan J Girling, Timothy P Hofer, Jianhua Wu, Peter J Chilton, Jonathan P Nicholl, Mohammed A Mohammed, Richard J Lilford