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Original research

• Timeout procedure in paediatric surgery: effective tool or lip service? A randomised prospective observational study (25 February, 2021)

  Oliver J Muensterer, Hendrik Kreutz, Alicia Poplawski, Jan Goedeke
• Comparing peripherally inserted central catheter-related practices across hospitals with different insertion models: a multisite qualitative study (24 December, 2020)

  Sarah L Krein, Molly Harrod, Lauren E Weston, Brittani R Garlick, Martha Quinn, Kathlyn E Fletcher, Vineet Chopra
• Chronic hospital nurse understaffing meets COVID-19: an observational study (18 August, 2020)

  Karen B Lasater, Linda H Aiken, Douglas M Sloane, Rachel French, Brendan Martin, Kyrani Reneau, Maryann Alexander, Matthew D McHugh
• Differences in transitional care processes among high-performing and low-performing hospital-SNF pairs: a rapid ethnographic approach (21 September, 2020)

  Kirstin A Manges, Roman Ayele, Chelsea Leonard, Marcie Lee, Emily Galenbeck, Robert E Burke
• The cost of improving care: a multisite economic analysis of hospital resource use for implementing recommended postpartum contraception programmes (2 September, 2020)

  Vivian B Ling, Erika E Levi, Amy R Harrington, Nikki B Zite, Saul D Rivas, Vanessa K Dalton, Roger Smith, Michelle H Moniz
• Variation in the design of Do Not Resuscitate orders and other code status options: a multi-institutional qualitative study (20 October, 2020)

  Jason N Batten, Jacob A Blythe, Sarah Wieten, Miriam Piven Cotler, Joshua B Kayser, Karin Porter-Williamson, Stephanie Harman, Elizabeth Dzeng, David Magnus
• Effects of night surgery on postoperative mortality and morbidity: a multicentre cohort study (7 October, 2020)

  Friederike C Althoff, Luca J Wachtendorf, Paul Rostin, Peter Santer, Maximilian S Schaefer, Xinling Xu, Stephanie D Grabitz, Hovig Chitilian, Timothy T Houle, Gabriel A Brat, Oluwaseun Akeju, Matthias Eikermann