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Original research

• The relationship between off-hours admissions for primary percutaneous coronary intervention, door-to-balloon time and mortality for patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction in England: a registry-based prospective national cohort study (12 December, 2019)

  Sahan Jayawardana, Sebastian Salas-Vega, Felix Cornehl, Harlan M Krumholz, Elias Mossialos
• ‘Immunising’ physicians against availability bias in diagnostic reasoning: a randomised controlled experiment

  (27 January, 2020)

  Sílvia Mamede, Marco Antonio de Carvalho-Filho, Rosa Malena Delbone de Faria, Daniel Franci, Maria do Patrocinio Tenorio Nunes, Ligia Maria Cayres Ribeiro, Julia Biegelmeyer, Laura Zwaan, Henk G Schmidt
• Quality improvement in cardiovascular surgery: results of a surgical quality improvement programme using a nationwide clinical database and database-driven site visits in Japan (20 November, 2019)

  Hiroyuki Yamamoto, Hiroaki Miyata, Kazuo Tanemoto, Yoshikatsu Saiki, Hitoshi Yokoyama, Eriko Fukuchi, Noboru Motomura, Yuichi Ueda, Shinichi Takamoto
• Impact of structured interdisciplinary bedside rounding on patient outcomes at a large academic health centre (6 December, 2019)

  Padageshwar R Sunkara, Tareq Islam, Abhishek Bose, Gary E Rosenthal, Parag Chevli, Hanumantha Jogu, Luqman Arafath TK, Chi-Cheng Huang, Dipendra Chaudhary, Daniel Beekman, Abhishek Dutta, Suma Menon, Jaime L Speiser
• On selecting quality indicators: preferences of patients with breast and colon cancers regarding hospital quality indicators (12 December, 2019)

  Benjamin H Salampessy, Ward R Bijlsma, Eric van der Hijden, Xander Koolman, France R M Portrait
• Novel quality improvement method to reduce cost while improving the quality of patient care: retrospective observational study (23 January, 2020)

  Kedar S Mate, Jeffrey Rakover, Kay Cordiner, Amy Noble, Noura Hassan