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Quality Lines

QSHC’S NEW COVER: A COMMITMENT TO IMPROVEMENT
QSHC has a new front cover. Each issue’s cover will feature an institution as its focus. Our purpose is to emphasise again that much of healthcare improvement and safety is about the systems where patients receive their care and where the stories of improvement have their home. This issue’s cover displays a photo of BMA House, the home of BMJ Group in London. We at QSHC remind our readers that we too are committed to continuous improvement. We start modestly: we intend to track our editorial processes with greater precision, with the aim of improving the editorial team’s timeliness and quality of reviews. In the final analysis, our readers, like our patients, will determine the quality of our work.

THE IMPACT OF NURSING ON HOSPITAL PATIENT MORTALITY: A FOCUSED REVIEW AND RELATED POLICY IMPLICATIONS
This comprehensive literature review indicates that structures and processes of nursing care have a substantial impact on preventable patient deaths. This study identifies evidence to support policies to reduce patient mortality. . . . [Full text of this article]