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Quality Lines
David P Stevens
Qual Saf Health Care 2008; 17: 1. [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

Handovers and Debussy
D P Stevens
Qual Saf Health Care 2008; 17: 2-3. doi:10.1136/qshc.2007.025916 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

Structuring flexibility: the potential good, bad and ugly in standardisation of handovers
E S Patterson
Qual Saf Health Care 2008; 17: 4-5. doi:10.1136/qshc.2007.022772 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

Patient race/ethnicity, age, gender and education are not related to preference for or response to disclosure
C Hobgood, J H Tamayo-Sarver, and B Weiner
Qual Saf Health Care 2008; 17: 65-70. doi:10.1136/qshc.2006.021758 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF]

Communication gaps and readmissions to hospital for patients aged 75 years and older: observational study
E M A Witherington, O M Pirzada, and A J Avery
Qual Saf Health Care 2008; 17: 71-75. doi:10.1136/qshc.2006.020842 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF]

Effective interventions and implementation strategies to reduce adverse drug events in the Veterans Affairs (VA) system
P D Mills, J Neily, L M Kinney, J Bagian, and W B Weeks
Qual Saf Health Care 2008; 17: 37-46. doi:10.1136/qshc.2006.021816 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF]

Adverse outcomes after discharge: occurrence, treatment and determinants
P J Marang-van de Mheen, N van Duijn-Bakker, and J Kievit
Qual Saf Health Care 2008; 17: 47-52. doi:10.1136/qshc.2007.023309 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF]

Patient safety events reported in general practice: a taxonomy
M A B Makeham, S Stromer, C Bridges-Webb, M Mira, D C Saltman, C Cooper, and M R Kidd
Qual Saf Health Care 2008; 17: 53-57. doi:10.1136/qshc.2007.022491 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF]

Comparing measures of patient safety for inpatient care provided to veterans within and outside the VA system in New York
W B Weeks, A N West, A K Rosen, and J P Bagian
Qual Saf Health Care 2008; 17: 58-64. doi:10.1136/qshc.2006.020735 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF]

Intensive care unit nurses’ perceptions of safety after a highly specific safety intervention
N C Elder, S M Brungs, M Nagy, I Kudel, and M L Render
Qual Saf Health Care 2008; 17: 25-30. doi:10.1136/qshc.2006.021949 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF]

What is quality and how is it achieved? Practitioners’ views versus quality models
P Hudelson, A Cléopas, V Kolly, P Chopard, and T Perneger
Qual Saf Health Care 2008; 17: 31-36. doi:10.1136/qshc.2006.021311 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF]

Adequacy of information transferred at resident sign-out (inhospital handover of care): a prospective survey
S M Borowitz, L A Waggoner-Fountain, E J Bass, and R M Sledd
Qual Saf Health Care 2008; 17: 6-10. doi:10.1136/qshc.2006.019273 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF]

A theoretical framework and competency-based approach to improving handoffs
V M Arora, J K Johnson, D O Meltzer, and H J Humphrey
Qual Saf Health Care 2008; 17: 11-14. doi:10.1136/qshc.2006.018952 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF]

Integrating the chronic-care model and the ACGME competencies: using shared medical appointments to focus on systems-based practice
S R Kirsh and D C Aron
Qual Saf Health Care 2008; 17: 15-19. doi:10.1136/qshc.2006.020925 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

Patient-actor perception of care: a comparison of obstetric emergency training using manikins and patient-actors
J F Crofts, C Bartlett, D Ellis, C Winter, F Donald, L P Hunt, and T J Draycott
Qual Saf Health Care 2008; 17: 20-24. doi:10.1136/qshc.2006.021873 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF]

Homeopathy or regular medicine? Cook County Hospital, Chicago, Illinois, 1882–1887: evidence, politics, customer choice and provider perceptions at work
D Neuhauser and M Diaz
Qual Saf Health Care 2008; 17: 76-78. doi:10.1136/qshc.2007.023705 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

Practice guidelines for haemodialysis in Egypt
Qual Saf Health Care 2008; 17: 79. doi:10.1136/qshc.2007.023325 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

Impact of the European Working Time Directive on specialty training
Qual Saf Health Care 2008; 17: 79-80. doi:10.1136/qshc.2007.023234 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

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