Choosing the top articles published in BMJ Quality and Safety is always both a joy and a challenge, and 2023 was no exception. We saw a high number of submissions, with a broad range of topics and study designs. As ever, our editors and editorial board had some difficult choices to make in selecting the […]
Tag: Quality Improvement
Call for Papers: Implementation science for healthcare quality and safety
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 […]
Improving antiplatelet therapy uptake: lessons from the Scottish experience
Cardiovascular disease remains the leading cause of death worldwide.1,2 Advances in management strategies have, however, reduced population-level mortality rates for certain cardiovascular conditions over the past several decades, such as for coronary artery disease.3 As part of these advances, the use of effective therapies such as antiplatelet therapies (APT) has increased substantially over time in […]
Call for Papers: Striving for equity in the quality and safety of patient care
Equity is a key domain of healthcare quality. High quality, safe healthcare should be available to all, regardless of geography, income, race, gender, sex or any other characteristic. However, systemic biases and barriers are widespread. In addition to well-established inequalities in health and in access to healthcare, it is becoming increasingly clear that there are […]
Top 10 Articles of 2022, #1-5
In this post, we’re offering summaries and comments on articles from BMJ Quality & Safety’s Top 10 Articles of 2022. To check out the full list of our 24 finalists, click here, and to see more on Articles #6-10, click here. Additionally, to learn more about the Top Article selection process, click here. To briefly […]
Top 10 articles of 2022, #6-10
In this post, we’re offering summaries and comments on articles from BMJ Quality & Safety’s Top 10 Articles of 2022. To check out the full list of our 24 finalists, click here, and to learn more about the Top Article selection process, click here. To briefly summarize, the editors and the Editorial Board used data […]
Introducing the Top Research Articles of 2022
Choosing the top articles published in BMJ Quality and Safety is a challenge every year, and 2022 was no exception. We saw a high number of submissions, with a broad range of topics and study designs. As ever, our editors and editorial board had some difficult choices to make in selecting the top Research Articles […]
Tailoring audit and feedback – a precision intervention but with added complexity?
Do you respond to feedback from audits? Do you think you respond in the same way as your colleagues? If not, perhaps feedback should be provided to you and your colleagues in different ways. This is the proposal from Desveaux and colleagues in their Viewpoint about the role of tailoring in audit and feedback (A&F)1. […]
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 […]
Top 10 Article of 2021, Part 2
In this post, we’re offering summaries and comments on articles #1-5 from BMJ Quality & Safety’s Top 10 Articles of 2021. To check out the full list of our 21 finalists, click here. To read more about articles #6-10 in our Top 10 list, click here. The editors and the Editorial Board used data such […]