Advancing knowledge about how to improve the quality and safety of healthcare is a priority of BMJ Quality and Safety. Accordingly, we frequently publish studies that evaluate the effectiveness of quality improvement interventions. Methodologic advances in implementation science have had wide-spread positive impacts on healthcare delivery over the last 20 years. While many of these […]
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Lessons from remote antenatal care during the COVID-19 pandemic: how can we ensure equitable, safe, and patient-centred care?
Antenatal care is essential to supporting a healthy pregnancy. Traditionally, face-to-face consultations allowed for regular assessment and monitoring of the pregnancy, and represented an opportunity to support, reassure, and address concerns about pregnancy, labour, and birth. The onset of COVID-19 brought an abrupt shift to remote care as the primary means to continue providing antenatal […]
Introducing the Top Articles of 2021
While choosing the top articles published in BMJ Quality and Safety is a challenge every year, 2021 saw a higher number of submissions than those seen prior to 2020. Nearly one in five submissions related to COVID-19. The editors and editorial board of the journal therefore had some difficult choices to make in selecting the […]