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Original research

• Impact of a national QI programme on reducing electronic health record notifications to clinicians (31 December, 2018)

  Tina Shah, Shilpa Patel-Teague, Laura Kroupa, Ashley N D Meyer, Hardeep Singh
• Patient participation in inpatient ward rounds on acute inpatient medical wards: a descriptive study (31 December, 2018)

  Bernice Redley, Lauren McTier, Mari Botti, Alison Hutchinson, Harvey Newnham, Donald Campbell, Tracey Bucknall
• Virtual outpatient clinic as an alternative to an actual clinic visit after surgical discharge: a randomised controlled trial (31 December, 2018) Free

  Paul Healy, Liam McCrone, Roisin Tully, Emer Flannery, Aoife Flynn, Caitriona Cahir, Mayilone Arumugasamy, Thomas Walsh
• Standardisation of perioperative urinary catheter use to reduce postsurgical urinary tract infection: an interrupted time series study (31 December, 2018)

  Mahsa Sadeghi, Jerome A Leis, Claude Laflamme, Darrel Sparkes, Wendy Ditrani, Aaron Watamaniuk, Ru Taggar, Fatema Jinnah, Melisa Avaness, Mary Vearncombe, Avery B Nathens
• Speaking up about patient safety concerns: the influence of safety management approaches and climate on nurses’ willingness to speak up (31 December, 2018)

  Carien W Alingh, Jeroen D H van Wijngaarden, Karina van de Voorde, Jaap Paauwe, Robbert Huijsman
• Rate of avoidable deaths in a Norwegian hospital trust as judged by retrospective chart review (31 December, 2018)

  Tormod Rogne, Trond Nordseth, Gudmund Marhaug, Einar Marcus Berg, Arve Tromsdal, Ola Sæther, Sven Gisvold, Peter Hatlen, Helen Hogan, Erik Solligård
• Michigan Appropriate Perioperative (MAP) criteria for urinary catheter use in common general and orthopaedic surgeries: results obtained using the RAND/UCLA Appropriateness Method (31 December, 2018)

  Jennifer Meddings, Ted A Skolarus, Karen E Fowler, Steven J Bernstein, Justin B Dimick, Jason D Mann, Sanjay Saint