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Original research

• Validation of a teamwork perceptions measure to increase patient safety (20 March, 2014)

  Joseph R Keebler, Aaron S Dietz, Elizabeth H Lazzara, Lauren E Benishek, Sandra A Almeida, Phyllis A Toor, Heidi B King, Eduardo Salas
• The frequency of diagnostic errors in outpatient care: estimations from three large observational studies involving US adult populations (17 April, 2014)

  Hardeep Singh, Ashley N D Meyer, Eric J Thomas
• A multicentre cohort study assessing day of week effect and outcome from emergency appendicectomy (7 February, 2014)

  Henry JM Ferguson, Nigel J Hall, Aneel Bhangu,
• Contribution of hospital mortality variations to socioeconomic disparities in in-hospital mortality (7 March, 2014)

  Yoon Kim, Juhwan Oh, Ashish Jha
• Dissemination of a simulation-based mastery learning intervention reduces central line-associated bloodstream infections (14 March, 2014)

  Jeffrey H Barsuk, Elaine R Cohen, Steven Potts, Hany Demo, Shanu Gupta, Joe Feinglass, William C McGaghie, Diane B Wayne
• An observational study: associations between nurse-reported hospital characteristics and estimated 30-day survival probabilities (12 April, 2014)

  Christine Tvedt, Ingeborg Strømseng Sjetne, Jon Helgeland, Geir Bukholm
• Identifying systems failures in the pathway to a catastrophic event: an analysis of national incident report data relating to vinca alkaloids (18 March, 2014)

  Bryony Dean Franklin, Sukhmeet S Panesar, Charles Vincent, Liam J Donaldson