Table of contents

Original research

• Factors associated with inappropriate use of emergency departments: findings from a cross-sectional national study in France (30 October, 2019)

  Diane Naouri, Guillaume Ranchon, Albert Vuagnat, Jeannot Schmidt, Carlos El Khoury, Youri Yordanov
• Later emergency provider shift hour is associated with increased risk of admission: a retrospective cohort study (13 November, 2019)

  Patrick D Tyler, Alan Fossa, Joshua W Joseph, Leon D Sanchez
• Large-scale empirical optimisation of statistical control charts to detect clinically relevant increases in surgical site infection rates (8 November, 2019) Free

  Iulian Ilieş, Deverick J Anderson, Joseph Salem, Arthur W Baker, Margo Jacobsen, James C Benneyan
• Why colorectal screening fails to achieve the uptake rates of breast and cervical cancer screening: a comparative qualitative study (26 December, 2019)

  Marie Kotzur, Colin McCowan, Sara Macdonald, Sally Wyke, Lauren Gatting, Christine Campbell, David Weller, Emilia Crighton, Robert J C Steele, Kathryn A Robb
• Using standardised patients to assess the quality of medical records: an application and evidence from rural China (27 November, 2019)

  Yuju Wu, Huan Zhou, Xiao Ma, Yaojiang Shi, Hao Xue, Chengchao Zhou, Hongmei Yi, Alexis Medina, Jason Li, Sean Sylvia
• A mixed methods study examining teamwork shared mental models of interprofessional teams during hospital discharge (27 November, 2019)

  Kirstin Manges, Patricia S Groves, Amany Farag, Ryan Peterson, Joanna Harton, S Ryan Greysen
• Quality of care for acute abdominal pain in children (27 November, 2019)

  Yvonne Zurynski, Kate Churruca, Gaston Arnolda, Sarah Dalton, Hsuen P Ting, Peter Damian Hibbert, Charlotte Molloy, Louise K Wiles, Carl de Wet, Jeffrey Braithwaite