June 2002, Volume 11, Issue 2

Medical education: Finding safety in medical education

• D P Stevens

Quality improvement research: Quality improvement research: understanding the science of change in health care

• R Grol,
• R Baker,
• F Moss

Patient safety: Championing patient safety: going global

• Liam Donaldson

Patient safety research: Patient safety research: does it have legs?

• R J Lilford

Risk management: Anxiety as a barrier to risk management

• J Firth-Cozens

Risk management: Risk management or safety first?

• G E Knox

Patient centred care: Patient centred care: essential but probably not sufficient

• K W Kizer

Surgery for glue ear: Impact of national guidelines on use of surgery for glue ear in England

• D Keeley

Simulation for training: Simulation for training is effective when …

• E Salas,
• C S Burke

Reduction in the use of surgery for glue ear: did national guidelines have an impact?

• N Black,
• A Hutchings

Quality assessment for three common conditions in primary care: validity and reliability of review criteria developed by expert panels for angina, asthma and type 2 diabetes

• S M Campbell,
• M Hann,
• J Hacker,
• A Durie,
• A Thapar,
• M O Roland

Patients' Evaluation of the Quality of Diabetes Care (PEQD): development and validation of a new instrument

• F Pouwer,
• F J Snoek

Scope and nature of prescribing decisions made by general practitioners

• P Denig,
• C L M Witteman,
• H W Schouten

Incident reporting: science or protoscience? Ten years later

• H Kaplan,
• P Barach

National campaign urges patients to join safety effort

Qualitative versus quantitative research — balancing cost, yield and feasibility

• W B Runciman

Qualitative methods in research on healthcare quality

• C Pope,
• P van Royen,
• R Baker

Research on patients' views in the evaluation and improvement of quality of care

• M Wensing,
• G Elwyn

“Quality improvement”: noun or verb?

• P Batalden

The need for risk management to evolve to assure a culture of safety

• A M Kuhn,
• B J Youngberg

Value of a cognitive simulation in medicine: towards optimizing decision making performance of healthcare personnel

• U Satish,
• S Streufert

Educating physicians prepared to improve care and safety is no accident: it requires a systematic approach

• D C Aron,
• L A Headrick

Ingredients for change: revisiting a conceptual framework

• J Rycroft-Malone,
• A Kitson,
• G Harvey,
• B McCormack,
• K Seers,
• A Titchen,
• C Estabrooks

Consumer involvement—a vital piece of the quality quilt: the California HealthCare Foundation's strategy for engaging California consumers

• A Monroe

After Bristol: putting patients at the centre

• Angela Coulter

Homoeopathy

• S O'Meara,
• P Wilson,
• C Bridle,
• K Wright,
• J Kleijnen

John Meyer Eisenberg, MD

• Paul Barach

Challenging assumptions about quality

• T Smith

CyberSpace

• A L Scheffler

Now free for the 100 poorest countries

Too good to last: did Cleveland Health Quality Choice leave a legacy and lessons to be learned?

• D Neuhauser,
• D L Harper

Action points

• Tim Albert