Quality Lines

Will the future continue to repeat the past?

Can quality improvement be used to change the wider healthcare system?

Who is responsible for the safety of infusion devices? It's high time for action!

Impact of reporting hospital performance

Are the risks of hospital practice adequately recognised by incident reporting?

Insights from the sharp end of intravenous medication errors: implications for infusion pump technology

Relationship between accreditation scores and the public disclosure of accreditation reports: a cross sectional study

Use of a systematic risk analysis method to improve safety in the production of paediatric parenteral nutrition solutions

Pursuing integration of performance measures into electronic medical records: beta-adrenergic receptor antagonist medications

Effect on the process of care of an active strategy to implement clinical guidelines on physiotherapy for low back pain: a cluster randomised controlled trial

Do split-side rails present an increased risk to patient safety?

Relationship between tort claims and patient incident reports in the Veterans Health Administration

A web-based incident reporting system and multidisciplinary collaborative projects for patient safety in a Japanese hospital

"Going solid": a model of system dynamics and consequences for patient safety

Implementing a national strategy for patient safety: lessons from the National Health Service in England

Pasteur and parachutes: when statistical process control is better than a randomized controlled trial

Effective health care: management of head and neck cancers

Innovation, implementation and organisational tension