TY - JOUR T1 - New SQUIRE publication guidelines: supporting nuanced reporting and reflection on complex interventions JF - BMJ Quality & Safety JO - BMJ Qual Saf SP - 184 LP - 185 DO - 10.1136/bmjqs-2015-003949 VL - 24 IS - 3 AU - Louise Davies AU - Greg Ogrinc Y1 - 2015/03/01 UR - http://qualitysafety.bmj.com/content/24/3/184.abstract N2 - In 2008, the Standards for Quality Improvement Reporting Excellence (SQUIRE) guidelines were published to clarify the content and format for published scholarly reports of healthcare improvement (http://www.squire-statement.org).1 The guidelines were intended to increase the completeness, precision and transparency of those reports by establishing a level of rigour. The field has dramatically advanced even in the short time since their release, and the SQUIRE guidelines are being revised to align with those changes.As part of the development of SQUIRE 2.0—expected to release in Autumn 2015—Brady et al2 ‘road-tested’ a draft version of the new SQUIRE guidelines as they wrote their paper on their 6-year experience with family-activated medical emergency teams (METs) at Cincinnati Children's Hospital.2 Providing an excellent example of how the field of quality improvement has developed, their paper exemplifies how SQUIRE 2.0 will continue to help authors report their work and support the growth of the field.Brady et al2 took on an important topic that would be difficult to study using only the experimental research methods familiar to clinical researchers. They developed an intervention where there was uncertainty about whether it would be effective—a programme in which families would be enabled to call the MET directly if they … ER -