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Original research

• Seven features of safety in maternity units: a framework based on multisite ethnography and stakeholder consultation (25 September, 2020)

  Elisa Giulia Liberati, Carolyn Tarrant, Janet Willars, Tim Draycott, Cathy Winter, Karolina Kuberska, Alexis Paton, Sonja Marjanovic, Brandi Leach, Catherine Lichten, Lucy Hocking, Sarah Ball, Mary Dixon-Woods
• Association between intrahospital transfer and hospital-acquired infection in the elderly: a retrospective case–control study in a UK hospital network (25 January, 2021)

  Emanuela Estera Boncea, Paul Expert, Kate Honeyford, Anne Kinderlerer, Colin Mitchell, Graham S Cooke, Luca Mercuri, Céire E Costelloe
• Removing hospital-based triage from suspected colorectal cancer pathways: the impact and learning from a primary care-led electronic straight-to-test pathway (11 June, 2020)

  Philippa Orchard, Nitin Arvind, Alison Wint, James Kynaston, Ann Lyons, Eric Loveday, Anne Pullyblank
• Changing hospital organisational culture for improved patient outcomes: developing and implementing the leadership saves lives intervention (16 July, 2020)

  Erika Linnander, Zahirah McNatt, Kasey Boehmer, Emily Cherlin, Elizabeth Bradley, Leslie Curry
• Identifying and encouraging high-quality healthcare: an analysis of the content and aims of patient letters of compliment (8 July, 2020)

  Alex Gillespie, Tom W Reader
• Observational study assessing changes in timing of readmissions around postdischarge day 30 associated with the introduction of the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (21 July, 2020)

  Ashwin S Nathan, Joseph R Martinez, Jay Giri, Amol S Navathe
• Weekly variation in quality of care for acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction by day and time of admission: a retrospective observational study (15 July, 2020)

  Chao Wang, Xi Li, Wantong Sun, Jingkun Li, Yupeng Wang, Xiaoqiang Bao, Meina Liu, Qiuju Zhang