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BMJ Quality & Safety (previously Quality & Safety in Health Care) is an international peer review publication providing, news, opinion, debate and research for academics, clinicians and healthcare managers. It encourages innovation and creative thinking to improve the quality of health care and the science of improvement.

Quality & Safety in Healthcare has an Impact Factor of 1.683 for 2011. However, in January 2011, the journal was relaunched as BMJ Quality & Safety. The change of title means that BMJ Quality & Safety will not receive its first Impact Factor until the 2012 Journal Citation Reports are released in 2013. All previous content is still available through the archive.

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Identifying and categorising patient safety hazards in cardiovascular operating rooms using an interdisciplinary approach: a multisite study
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Reducing CVC-related infections

Using checklists or bundle approaches to reduce infections related to central venous catheters (CVCs) has received widespread attention in recent years. A large, controlled study from the UK shows that comparable improvements occur in control and intervention sites when employing these methods.

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