September 2002, Volume 11, Issue 3

Safety management: Medical applications of industrial safety science

• T W van der Schaaf

News media: Breaking bad news

• M L Millenson

Guideline adherence: Guideline adherence rates and interprofessional variation

• R Peveler

Length of in-hospital stay: Length of in-hospital stay and its relationship to quality of care

• A Clarke

Monitoring of rare events: Pediatric Peri-Operative Cardiac Arrest (POCA) Registry

• S Jones,
• A Raffles

National Service Frameworks: National Service Frameworks as tools for quality improvement

• K Checkland,
• M Marshall

Quality improvement reports: Can the sum of projects end up in a program? The strategies that shape quality of care research

• Vahé A Kazandjian

Guideline adherence rates and interprofessional variation in a vignette study of depression

• H Tiemeier,
• W J de Vries,
• M van het Loo,
• J P Kahan,
• N Klazinga,
• R Grol,
• H Rigter

Relationship between hospital length of stay and quality of care in patients with congestive heart failure

• M P Kossovsky,
• F P Sarasin,
• P Chopard,
• M Louis-Simonet,
• P Sigaud,
• T V Perneger,
• J-M Gaspoz

Setting priorities for patient safety

• W B Runciman,
• M J Edmonds,
• M Pradhan

Secondary prevention following myocardial infarction: evidence from an audit in South Wales that the National Service Framework for coronary heart disease does not address all the issues

• P Underwood,
• P Beck

A preliminary taxonomy of medical errors in family practice

• S M Dovey,
• D S Meyers,
• R L Phillips, Jr,
• L A Green,
• G E Fryer,
• J M Galliher,
• J Kappus,
• P Grob

Quality improvement for patients with hip fracture: experience from a multi-site audit

• C Freeman,
• C Todd,
• C Camilleri-Ferrante,
• C Laxton,
• P Murrell,
• C R Palmer,
• M Parker,
• B Payne,
• N Rushton

Lessons from the Australian Patient Safety Foundation: setting up a national patient safety surveillance system—is this the right model?

• W B Runciman

Unexpected cardiac arrest among children during surgery: a North American registry to elucidate the incidence and causes of anesthesia related cardiac arrest

• K L Posner,
• J Geiduschek,
• C M Haberkern,
• C Ramamoorthy,
• A Hackel,
• J P Morray

Learning from prescribing errors

• B Dean

Information technology and medication safety: what is the benefit?

• R Kaushal,
• D W Bates

Commentary

• N Barber

Lessons learned from non-medical industries: root cause analysis as culture change at a chemical plant

• J S Carroll,
• J W Rudolph,
• S Hatakenaka

Evaluation of quality improvement programmes

• J Øvretveit,
• D Gustafson

Patients' eye view

Preventable anesthesia mishaps: a study of human factors*

• Jeffrey B Cooper,
• Ronald S Newbower,
• Charlene D Long,
• Bucknam McPeek

Commentary

• E C Pierce, Jr

Interventions for the treatment and management of chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis

• A-M Bagnall,
• P Whiting,
• R Richardson,
• A J Sowden

The Wanless report: engaging the NHS with patient needs?

• Tom Smith

Safe and effective use of medications: a global concern

• A L Scheffler

Bruce Psaty and the risks of calcium channel blockers

• R A Deyo

External research service with critical appraisal of the medical literature at a university medical centre

• A Juche,
• U Euler,
• B Brüggenjürgen,
• S N Willich,
• R Kunz

Shared Decision Making. Patient Involvement in Clinical Practice: Glyn Elwyn. Nijmegen, The Netherlands: WOK, 2001, £10.00, pp 221. ISBN 90 76316 12 0

• R Say

Alzheimer's Disease: Policy and Practice across Europe: Edited by M Warner, S Furnish, M Longley, B Lawlor. Oxford: Radcliffe Medical Press, 2002, £24.95, pp 216 (paperback). ISBN 1 85775 416 6

• J Herzberg

A lesson for our times

• J W Sender,
• A Crichton-Harris

ACTION POINTS

• Tim Albert