BMJ Quality & Safety is an international peer-reviewed journal covering the science of improvement across healthcare service and provision.

Background To describe the diagnoses of people who present to the emergency department (ED) with low back pain (LBP), the proportion of people with a lumbar spine condition who arrived by ambulance, ...

Evaluating the effects of increasing nursing numbers on quality of newborn care in understaffed neonatal units in Kenya: a prospective intervention study ...

Correspondence to Aili V Langford, Faculty of Medicine and Health, School of Pharmacy, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2790, Australia; aili.langford{at}sydney.edu.au Background Chronic ...

1 Department of Community and Family Medicine, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH, USA 2 Departments of Pediatrics and of Internal Medicine, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH, USA 3 Veterans ...

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Objective Overconfidence is an important source of medical error. This review analyses experimental studies of confidence in ...

Statistical process control (SPC) charts provide a natural approach to analysing time series data for healthcare quality ...

Correspondence to Dr James Mountford, UCLPartners, 3rd Floor, 170 Tottenham Court Road, London W1T 7HA, UK; james.mountford{at}uclpartners.com One of us was shown a letter received by a hospital ...

Social Science Applied to Healthcare Improvement Research Group, Department of Health Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK Correspondence to Professor Mary Dixon-Woods, ...

Department of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA Correspondence to: Associate Professor P J Pronovost Department of Anaesthesiology and ...