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Original research

• Variation in safety culture dimensions within and between US and Swiss Hospital Units: an exploratory study (6 July, 2012)

  René Schwendimann, Natalie Zimmermann, Kaspar Küng, Dietmar Ausserhofer, Bryan Sexton
• Using Healthcare Failure Mode and Effect Analysis to reduce medication errors in the process of drug prescription, validation and dispensing in hospitalised patients (13 September, 2012)

  Manuel Vélez-Díaz-Pallarés, Eva Delgado-Silveira, María Emilia Carretero-Accame, Teresa Bermejo-Vicedo
• Recorded quality of primary care for patients with diabetes in England before and after the introduction of a financial incentive scheme: a longitudinal observational study (22 August, 2012)

  Evangelos Kontopantelis, David Reeves, Jose M Valderas, Stephen Campbell, Tim Doran
• Junior doctors and patient safety: evaluating knowledge, attitudes and perception of safety climate (10 August, 2012)

  Piyush Durani, Joseph Dias, Harvinder P Singh, Nicholas Taub
• Use of in situ simulation and human factors engineering to assess and improve emergency department clinical systems for timely telemetry-based detection of life-threatening arrhythmias (11 October, 2012) Free

  Leo Kobayashi, Ramakrishna Parchuri, Fenwick G Gardiner, Gino A Paolucci, Nicole M Tomaselli, Rakan S Al-Rasheed, Karina S Bertsch, Jeffrey Devine, Robert M Boss, Frantz J Gibbs, Eric Goldlust, James E Monti, Brian O'Hearn, David C Portelli, Nathan A Siegel, David Hemendinger, Gregory D Jay