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Original research

• Measuring patient-perceived quality of care in US hospitals using Twitter (19 May, 2016)

  Jared B Hawkins, John S Brownstein, Gaurav Tuli, Tessa Runels, Katherine Broecker, Elaine O Nsoesie, David J McIver, Ronen Rozenblum, Adam Wright, Florence T Bourgeois, Felix Greaves
• Linking social media and medical record data: a study of adults presenting to an academic, urban emergency department (19 May, 2016)

  Kevin A Padrez, Lyle Ungar, Hansen Andrew Schwartz, Robert J Smith, Shawndra Hill, Tadas Antanavicius, Dana M Brown, Patrick Crutchley, David A Asch, Raina M Merchant
• Safety culture in long-term care: a cross-sectional analysis of the Safety Attitudes Questionnaire in nursing and residential homes in the Netherlands (19 May, 2016)

  Martina Buljac-Samardzic, Jeroen DH van Wijngaarden, Connie M Dekker–van Doorn
• Access to primary care and the route of emergency admission to hospital: retrospective analysis of national hospital administrative data (19 May, 2016)

  Thomas E Cowling, Matthew Harris, Hilary Watt, Michael Soljak, Emma Richards, Elinor Gunning, Alex Bottle, James Macinko, Azeem Majeed
• Physician and other healthcare personnel responses to hospital stroke quality of care performance feedback: a qualitative study (19 May, 2016)

  Joseph S Ross, Linda Williams, Teresa M Damush, Marianne Matthias
• Strengthening the afferent limb of rapid response systems: an educational intervention using web-based learning for early recognition and responding to deteriorating patients (19 May, 2016)

  Sok Ying Liaw, Lai Fun Wong, Sophia Bee Leng Ang, Jasmine Tze Yin Ho, Chiang Siau, Emily Neo Kim Ang
• The impact of interruptions on the duration of nursing interventions: a direct observation study in an academic emergency department (19 May, 2016)

  Gai Cole, Dicky Stefanus, Heather Gardner, Matthew J Levy, Eili Y Klein
• Reducing the number and impact of outbreaks of nosocomial viral gastroenteritis: time-series analysis of a multidimensional quality improvement initiative (19 May, 2016)

  Caroline Mitchell, Paul Meredith, Matthew Richardson, Peter Greengross, Gary B Smith