Table of contents

Original research

• Frontline nursing staff’s perceptions of intravenous medication administration: the first step toward safer infusion processes—a qualitative study (27 June, 2024)

  Masashi Uramatsu, Naoko Kimura, Takako Kojima, Yoshikazu Fujisawa, Tomoko Oto, Paul Barach
• Development of a survey to support assessment of safety learning systems (26 June, 2024)

  Hassan Assem Mahmoud, Sunita Mulpuru, Kednapa Thavorn, Daniel McIsaac, Alan J Forster
• Use of computer simulation to identify effects on hospital census with reduction of transfers for non-procedural patients in community hospitals (25 June, 2024)

  Laura Walker, Katharina Kohler, Matthew Jankowski, Todd Huschka
• Secondary uses of electronic prescribing and pharmacy data in UK hospital care: a national survey (17 June, 2024)

  Navila Talib Chaudhry, Jonathan Benn, Bryony Dean Franklin
• Quality improvement initiative to standardise the anthropometric assessment for children under the age of 5 years at an urban primary health centre in New Delhi (11 June, 2024)

  Adhish Kumar Sethi, Sumna Velarambath Manalil, Sandeep Das, Shahana Singh, Roshan Mariam Manu, Riya Biswas, Pranav Shankar, Parshav Gilhotra, Ravneet Kaur, Baridalyne Nongkynrih
• Codesign and refinement of an optimised antenatal education session to better inform women and prepare them for labour and birth (10 June, 2024)

  Abi Merriel, Miriam Toolan, Mary Lynch, Gemma Clayton, Andrew Demetri, Lucy Willis, Narendra Mampitiya, Alice Clarke, Katherine Birchenall, Chloe de Souza, Emma Harvey, Tamarind Russell-Webster, Eva Larkai, Mariusz Grzeda, Kate Rawling, Sonia Barnfield, Margaret Smith, Rachel Plachcinski, Christy Burden, Abigail Fraser, Michael Larkin, Anna Davies
• Relevance of meeting general outpatients’ information needs to their perceptions of healthcare quality in a hospital in Ghana: a Healthcare Quality Survey using modified SERVQUAL analysis (10 June, 2024)

  Anita Ago Asare, Elom Otchi, Adom Manu
• Using the Translating Research into Practice framework to develop a diabetes prevention intervention in primary care: a mixed-methods study (5 June, 2024)

  Eva Tseng, Katherine Smith, Jeanne M Clark, Jodi B Segal, Jill A Marsteller, Nisa M Maruthur
• Antenatal cardiotocography in primary midwife-led care: a budget impact analysis (5 June, 2024)

  Elise Neppelenbroek, Ângela Jornada Ben, Bas S W A Nij Bijvank, Judith E Bosmans, Carola J M Groenen, Ank de Jonge, Corine J M Verhoeven
• Abuse in Canadian long-term care homes: a mixed methods study (4 June, 2024)

  Andrea Baumann, Mary Crea-Arsenio, Victoria Smith, Valentina Antonipillai, Dina Idriss-Wheeler
• SafeVRwards: Designing a complementary virtual reality module to the Safewards framework intended to relax and manage conflict in mental health wards (4 June, 2024)

  Susanna Pardini, Shua Kim, Belmir de Jesus, Marilia K S Lopes, Kristine Leggett, Tiago H Falk, Christopher Smith, Lora Appel
• Quality improvement collaborative for improving patient care delivery in Argentine public health sector intensive care units (3 June, 2024)

  Cecilia Inés Loudet, Facundo Jorro Barón, Rosa Reina, María del Pilar Arias López, Silvia Liliana Alegría, Cecilia del Valle Barrios, Rodolfo Buffa, María Laura Cabana, Eleonora Roxana Cunto, Simón Fernández Nievas, Mariel Ayelén García, Luz Gibbons, Gabriela Izzo, María Natalia Llanos, Claudia Meregalli, José Joaquín Mira, María Elena Ratto, Mariano Luis Rivet, Javier Roberti, Ana María Silvestri, Analía Tévez, Leonardo Joaquín Uranga, Graciela Zakalik, Viviana Rodríguez, 5C Study Group, Ezequiel García-Elorrio
• Performance evaluation of ChatGPT in detecting diagnostic errors and their contributing factors: an analysis of 545 case reports of diagnostic errors (3 June, 2024)

  Yukinori Harada, Tomoharu Suzuki, Taku Harada, Tetsu Sakamoto, Kosuke Ishizuka, Taiju Miyagami, Ren Kawamura, Kotaro Kunitomo, Hiroyuki Nagano, Taro Shimizu, Takashi Watari
• Barriers and facilitators of implementing a multicomponent intervention to improve faecal immunochemical test (FIT) colorectal cancer screening in primary care clinics, Alberta (27 May, 2024)

  Kamala Adhikari, Sharon S Mah, Michelle Patterson, Gary F Teare, Kimberly Manalili
• Implementation of Agile in healthcare: methodology for a multisite home hospital accelerator (27 May, 2024)

  Meghna Desai, Miriam Tardif-Douglin, Indigo Miller, Stephanie Blitzer, David L Gardner, Teresa Thompson, LaPonda Edmondson, David M Levine
• Mapping patient education encounters in elective surgery: a cohort study and cross-sectional survey (27 May, 2024)

  James Booker, Jack Penn, Chan Hee Koh, Nicola Newall, David Rowland, Siddharth Sinha, John G Hanrahan, Simon C Williams, Parag Sayal, Hani J Marcus
• Impact of geographical cohorting, multidisciplinary rounding and incremental case management support on hospital length of stay and readmission rates: a propensity weighted analysis (23 May, 2024)

  Aubrey Jolly Graham, Alyssa Platt, Kristian Knutsen, Emily Fletcher, David Gallagher
• Perils and payoffs for patients in serious illness conversations as described by physicians: a qualitative study (23 May, 2024)

  Rebecca Baxter, Susanna Pusa, Sofia Andersson, Anna Sandgren
• Psychological safety in an ECMO retrieval team: a qualitative study to inform improvement (23 May, 2024)

  Maurizio Passariello, Carolyn Tarrant
• Preliminary adaptation of the systems thinking for everyday work cue card set in a US healthcare system: a pragmatic and participatory co-design approach (23 May, 2024)

  Samantha E Fell, Paul Bowie, Karen Spalding, Jennifer Medves
• When do medical operators choose to use, or not use, video in emergency calls? A case study (21 May, 2024)

  Astrid Karina V Harring, Siri Idland, Janne Dugstad
• Documentary analysis of national and international guidance for community clinicians referring patients with suspected chronic limb-threatening ischaemia (20 May, 2024)

  Eleanor Atkins, Panagiota Birmpili, Ian Kellar, Liz Glidewell, David A Cromwell
• Impact of primary care system interventions on healthcare worker satisfaction and intention to stay in the Philippines: a follow-up study (20 May, 2024)

  Carol Stephanie Chua Tan-Lim, Mark Anthony U Javelosa, Josephine T Sanchez, Leonila F Dans, Mia P Rey, Anton G Elepano, Regine Ynez H De Mesa, Antonio L Dans
• Ward-based in situ simulation: lessons learnt from a UK District General Hospital (15 May, 2024)

  Julian Tristan Schwartze, Souvik Das, Deborah Suggitt, Jeanette Baxter, Simon Tunstall, Nicholas Ronan, Helen Stannard, Amina Rezgui, Wisam Jafar, David Neil Baxter
• Prevalence and factors associated with inappropriate continuation of stress ulcer prophylaxis at discharge (10 May, 2024)

  Justine Chinnappan, Rami Al-Handola, Noyal M Joseph, Ekwevugbe Ogbon, Philip J McDonald
• Influence of external assessment on quality and safety in surgery: a qualitative study of surgeons’ perspectives (8 May, 2024)

  Sina Furnes Øyri, Siri Wiig, Ole Tjomsland
• Improving clinical reasoning and communication during handover: An intervention study of the BRIEF-C tool (3 May, 2024)

  Ghazwan Altabbaa, Tanya Nathalie Beran, Marcia Clark, Elizabeth Oddone Paolucci
• Practical guide to implementing patient-reported outcome measures in gender-affirming care: evaluating acceptability, appropriateness and feasibility (1 May, 2024)

  Rakhshan Kamran, Liam Jackman, Anna Laws, Melissa Stepney, Conrad Harrison, Abhilash Jain, Jeremy Rodrigues
• Relation between pre-existing quality management measures and prevention and containment of COVID-19 outbreaks in 159 nursing homes in Tuscany: a mixed methods study (30 April, 2024)

  Mircha Poldrugovac, Sara Barsanti, Emiliano Pardini, Niek S Klazinga, Dionne S Kringos
• Intervention for reducing the overuse of upper endoscopy in patients <45 years: a protocol for a stepwise intervention programme (29 April, 2024)

  Susanne Sorensen Hernes, Mikkel Høiberg, Frode Gallefoss, Christian Thoresen, Ole Tjomsland
• TeamSTEPPS improves patient safety (25 April, 2024)

  Yu Shi, Shijian Miao, Yang Fu, Chengjun Sun, Hongsheng Wang, Xiaowen Zhai
• Reduce intraoperative albumin utilisation in cardiac surgical patients: a quality improvement initiative (24 April, 2024)

  André J Savadjian, Brad M Taicher, Jong ok La, Mihai Podgoreanu, Timothy E Miller, Sharon McCartney, Karthik Raghunathan, Nirav Shah, Negmeldeen Mamoun
• Implementing strategies to improve uptake of patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) in gender-affirming care: a mixed-methods implementation study (22 April, 2024)

  Rakhshan Kamran, Liam Jackman, Charlie Goodwin, Anna Laws, Melissa Stepney, Conrad Harrison, Abhilash Jain, Jeremy Rodrigues
• Facing the digital frontier: exploring user acceptance of electronic health records in an urban, rural and remote setting in the Philippines (18 April, 2024)

  Regine Ynez H De Mesa, Cara Lois T Galingana, Carol Stephanie C Tan-Lim, Mark Anthony U Javelosa, Janelle Micaela S Panganiban, Noleen Marie C Fabian, Ysabela Calderon, Mia P Rey, Nannette Bernal-Sundiang, Josephine T Sanchez, Leonila F Dans, Ray U Casile, Antonio L Dans
• Grading recommendations for enhanced patient safety in sentinel event analysis: the recommendation improvement matrix (16 April, 2024)

  Kelly Bos, Maarten J van der Laan, Jop Groeneweg, Gert Jan Kamps, Dink A Legemate, Ian Leistikow, Dave A Dongelmans
• Health information technology tools to accelerate gastrointestinal evaluation in patients with iron deficiency anaemia: a cluster randomised controlled trial (15 April, 2024)

  Aparna Priyanath Gupta, Dharmesh Patel, Ji Young Lee, Michelle Volpentesta, Michael Schachter, Stephen D Persell
• Improving appropriate use of intravenous albumin: results of a single-centre audit and multifaceted intervention (15 April, 2024)

  Corey M Forster, Shannon Halls, Sabrina Allarakhia, Dimpy Modi, Wiley Chung, Kendra Derry, Genevieve Digby, Jennifer Flemming, John McGugan, Heather Mackulin, Steven Montague, Stephanie Sibley, Samuel A Silver, Angela Sirosky-Yanyk, Andrew Stevens, Kerstin de Wit, Liying Zhang, Jeannie Callum
• Quality improvement collaborative approach to COVID-19 pandemic preparedness in long-term care homes: a mixed-methods implementation study (8 April, 2024)

  Janice Sorensen, Laura Kadowaki, Lucy Kervin, Clayon Hamilton, Annette Berndt, Simran Dhadda, Abeera Irfan, Emma Leong, Akber Mithani
• Call me Ishmael: addressing the white whale of team communication in the operating room with labelled surgical caps at an academic medical centre (8 April, 2024)

  Nicole Hamilton Goldhaber, Shivani Mehta, Christopher A Longhurst, Elizabeth Malachowski, Melissa Jones, Bryan M Clary, Robin L Schaefer, Michael McHale, Lisa P Rhodes, Kristin L Mekeel, J Jeffery Reeves
• Surgeons’ views of peer comparison and guideline-based feedback on postsurgery opioid prescriptions: a qualitative investigation (5 April, 2024)

  Meghan Martinez, Allison Kirkegaard, Kathryn Bouskill, Xiaowei Sherry Yan, Zachary Wagner, Katherine E Watkins
• Patient and healthcare professional perspectives on the Practical Guide to Implementing PROMs in Gender-Affirming Care (PG-PROM-GAC): analysis of open-ended responses from patients and healthcare professionals (3 April, 2024)

  Rakhshan Kamran, Liam Jackman, Anna Laws, Melissa Stepney, Conrad Harrison, Abhilash Jain, Jeremy Rodrigues
• Using Blood Wisely: lessons learnt in establishing a national implementation programme to reduce inappropriate red blood cell transfusion (3 April, 2024)

  Yulia Lin, Wendy Levinson, Doreen Day, Ryan Lett, Tanya Petraszko, Tai Huynh, Andrea M Patey
• Journey of medication reconciliation compliance in a lower middle-income country: a retrospective chart review (2 April, 2024)

  Samar Fatima, Ainan Arshad, Amara Zafar, Sana Farrukh, Anum Rahim, Saharish Nazar, Hasnain Zafar