TY - JOUR T1 - Advancing equity, diversity and inclusion at <em>BMJ Quality and Safety</em> JF - BMJ Quality &amp; Safety JO - BMJ Qual Saf SP - 301 LP - 304 DO - 10.1136/bmjqs-2023-015910 VL - 32 IS - 6 AU - Bryony Dean Franklin AU - Eric J Thomas AU - Christine Soong Y1 - 2023/06/01 UR - http://qualitysafety.bmj.com/content/32/6/301.abstract N2 - The purpose of BMJ Quality and Safety is to encourage the science of improvement, debate and new thinking on improving the quality of healthcare.1 Equity is a key domain of healthcare quality—high quality, safe healthcare should be available to all who need it.2 However, systemic biases and barriers are widespread in healthcare,3 as well as more broadly, including within the processes around the publication of research.4 For example, lack of diversity among editors, reviewers and authors of published papers is likely to both reflect and exacerbate systemic sources of inequity among researchers but also among the intended beneficiaries of our research—patients and their healthcare providers. By ‘diversity’, we here include areas such as (but not limited to) socioeconomic status, sex, gender, race or ethnicity, first language, sexual orientation, religion, beliefs, disability status, age, nationality or citizenship, and place of residence. At BMJ Quality and Safety, in addition to publishing papers on the quality and safety of healthcare, including equity, we are therefore committed to promoting and advancing equity in our editorial practices.Here we outline our commitments in this area as well as our future aspirations. We will consider in turn (1) the research that we publish, (2) our editorial practices and (3) the underpinning use of data to better understand the extent of the problems and to evaluate the impact of interventions in each of these areas. A summary of our aims in each of these three domains is presented in table 1.View this table:In this windowIn a new windowTable 1 Our aims relating to equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) BMJ Quality and Safety has a long history of interest in publishing research on equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) within healthcare. For example, in 1993 we published a review of how health and healthcare differed among ethnic groups in Britain.5 … ER -