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Original research

• Cognitive impairment and behavioural emergencies within the acute hospital setting (23 March, 2023)

  Vasko Ilievski, Tomiko Barrett, William Lawson, Shane Hoyland, Kelvin Tran
• Correlations between care users’ and the healthcare inspectorate’s ratings of the quality of care in long-term care homes (19 March, 2023)

  Flora Palimetaki, Karlijn Woutersen, Anne Margriet Pot
• Measuring the patient safety culture at a tertiary care hospital in Pakistan using the Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture (HSOPSC) (16 March, 2023)

  Fasih Ali Ahmed, Fozia Asif, Tahir Munir, Muhammad Sohail Halim, Zehra Feroze Ali, Asim Belgaumi, Hasnain Zafar, Asad Latif
• Time is tissue. Want to save millions in wound care? Start early: a QI project to expedite referral of high-risk wound care patients to specialised care (16 March, 2023)

  John Muen Hwang
• Computerised clinical decision support system for the diagnosis of pulmonary thromboembolism: a preclinical pilot study (16 March, 2023)

  Ghazwan Altabbaa, Sheelagh Carpendale, Ward Flemons, Brenda Hemmelgarn, Kevin McLaughlin, Torre Zuk, William A Ghali
• Job demands at the patient’s bedside and their effects on stress and satisfaction of nurses (14 March, 2023)

  Katharina Wenderott, Shiney Franz, Martin G Friedrich, Margarete Boos
• Implementation of a digital early warning score (NEWS2) in a cardiac specialist and general hospital settings in the COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative study (13 March, 2023)

  Baneen Alhmoud, Timothy Bonicci, Riyaz Patel, Daniel Melley, Louise Hicks, Amitava Banerjee
• Patient-reported outcome and experience measures for quality improvement in pregnancy and childbirth care: a retrospective cohort study (8 March, 2023)

  Anouk Klootwijk, Pieter Bakx, Arie Franx, Hilmar Bijma, Hiske Ernst-Smelt, Marije Lamain-de Ruiter, Anke Posthumus, Bas van Rijn
• Development and acceptance of a new adherence monitoring package to identify non-adherent patients with polypharmacy in primary care: a feasibility study (27 February, 2023)

  Fine Dietrich, Andreas Zeller, Samuel Allemann, Isabelle Arnet
• Simulation-based team training improves door-to-needle time for intravenous thrombolysis (21 February, 2023)

  Veronika Svobodová, Hana Maršálková, Ekaterina Volevach, Robert Mikulík
• Process over outcome quality in paediatrics? An analysis of outpatient healthcare quality indicators for seven common diseases (17 February, 2023)

  Teresa Müller, Claudia Mehl, Thorsten Nau, Christian Bachmann, Max Geraedts
• Continuous quality improvement strategy for increasing immediate postpartum long-acting reversible contraceptive use at Jimma University Medical Center, Jimma, Ethiopia (16 February, 2023)

  Demisew Amenu Sori, Gurmesa Tura Debelew, Lema Seboka Degefa, Zerihun Asefa
• National statutory reporting: not even ticking the boxes? The quality of ‘Learning from Deaths’ reporting in quality accounts within the NHS in England 2017–2020 (10 February, 2023)

  Zoe Brummell, Dorit Braun, Zainab Hussein, S Ramani Moonesinghe, Cecilia Vindrola-Padros
• Use of collaborative learning approach for increased cure rate among children aged 6–59 months with severe wasting in Karamoja, Uganda (10 February, 2023)

  Alex Mokori, Amos Hashaka Ndungutse, Dinah Amongin, Caroline Noel Agabiirwe, Robert Byabasheija, Joyce Draru
• Facilitators and barriers to conducting an efficient, competent and high-quality oncological multidisciplinary team meeting (9 February, 2023)

  Janneke E W Walraven, Rob H A Verhoeven, Renske van der Meulen, Jacobus J M van der Hoeven, Valery E P P Lemmens, Gijs Hesselink, Ingrid M E Desar
• Automatic medication refills to improve glycaemic control among patients with diabetes and low medication adherence (6 February, 2023)

  Anna L Golob, John Geyer, Chatty O'Keeffe, Kaylen Nelson, Cassandra Song, Christopher Vanderwarker, Jacqueline Britton, Ashok Reddy, Edwin Wong, Linnaea Schuttner
• Is anybody ‘Learning’ from deaths? Sequential content and reflexive thematic analysis of national statutory reporting within the NHS in England 2017–2020 (2 February, 2023)

  Zoe Brummell, Dorit Braun, Zainab Hussein, S Ramani Moonesinghe, Cecilia Vindrola-Padros
• Impact of computerised provider order entry on the quality and quantity of clinical information included with investigation requests: an interrupted time series analysis (31 January, 2023)

  Daniel Weiand, Caroline Cullerton, Robert Oxley, Chris J Plummer
• Identifying and prioritising the key components of a Quality Improvement Network for allied health professionals and psychological therapists: a group concept mapping project (30 January, 2023)

  Lisa J Robinson, Hannah V Butler, Kate L Hackett
• Towards cost saving in surgery without compromising safety: stapleless laparoscopic splenectomy in a developing country—a prospective cohort study (27 January, 2023)

  Omar Lasheen, Mohamed Yehia, Ayman Salah, Sameh Mikhail, Ahmed Hassan
• How effectively has a Just Culture been adopted? A qualitative study to analyse the attitudes and behaviours of clinicians and managers to clinical incident management within an NHS Hospital Trust and identify enablers and barriers to achieving a Just Culture (27 January, 2023)

  Adam Tasker, Julia Jones, Simon Brake
• Fear of making a mistake: a prominent cause of stress for COVID-19 ICU staff—a mixed-methods study (25 January, 2023)

  Cecilia Escher, Elisabeth Nagy, Johan Creutzfeldt, Oili Dahl, Mini Ruiz, Mats Ericson, Walter Osika, Lisbet Meurling
• ‘The way that we are collecting and using data has evolved’ evaluating the Australian National Stroke Audit programme to inform strategic direction (24 January, 2023)

  Elizabeth Lynch, Kate Laver, Tamina Levy, Timothy Schultz
• Soreness or sng: a common symptom with differential clinical impact from pain in degenerative lumbar spine diseases (23 January, 2023)

  Hsiao-Yean Chiu, I-Wen Su, Yu-Wen Yu, Yi-Chen Chen, Chih-Cheng Chen, Jiann-Her Lin
• Multicentre positive deviance to reduce adverse events and length of stay after pulmonary resection (20 January, 2023)

  Andrew J E Seely, Zubair Ahmadzai, Daniel G French, Molly Gingrich, Daniel Jones, Caitlin Anstee, Najib Safieddine, Thomas K Waddell, Richard Malthaner, Lorenzo Ferri, Christian Finley, Gail Darling
• Observational study on resource utilisation of patients with limited English proficiency (LEP) at a high-LEP serving community hospital emergency department (19 January, 2023)

  Matthew Mo Kin Kwok, Ryan Sandarage, Manjot Kahlon
• Benefits of electronic charts in intensive care and during a world health pandemic: advantages of the technology age (16 January, 2023)

  Tanya Pankhurst, Laurie Lucas, Steve Ryan, Chris Ragdale, Helen Gyves, Louise Denner, Ian Young, Laura Rathbone, Anwar Shah, Deborah McKee, Jamie J Coleman, Felicity Evison, Jolene Atia, David Rosser, Mark Garrick, Richard Baker, Suzy Gallier, Simon Ball
• Characteristics promoting behaviour change: physician experience with a coalition-led quality improvement initiative to reduce excessive laboratory test ordering (10 January, 2023)

  Pamela Mathura, Sandra Marini, Karen Spalding, Lenora Duhn, Narmin Kassam, Jennifer Medves