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 […]
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Top 10 articles of 2019, Part 2
Here, we’re featuring the second installment of summaries and comments on the BMJQS Editorial Board’s choice of the top 10 articles from 2019 using data such as citation rates and social media engagement in addition to their own judgement. For the full list of our 20 finalists, click here. Part 1, highighting articles #6-#10 for […]
Top 10 articles of 2019, Part 1
In this post, we’re offering summaries and comments on some articles from the BMJQS’s Top 10 of 2019. To check out a full list of our 20 finalists, click here. The editors and the Editorial Board used data such as citation rates and social media engagement in addition to their own judgement to create these […]
Top 2018 articles on quality improvement
Influencing organisational culture to improve hospital performance in care of patients with acute myocardial infarction: a mixed-methods intervention study – in print, March 2018 issue. https://qualitysafety.bmj.com/content/27/3/207 In this ambitious work, Curry et al. describe the effects on both culture and clinical outcomes of a 2-year organizational culture-improvement intervention at ten hospitals with at least 200 […]
Top 2018 articles on patient safety
2018 saw solid contributions to the literature on patient safety, with three papers demonstrating the importance of reflection and of sound evidence on which to base the design of interventions for improvement. Transforming concepts in patient safety: a progress report – in print, December 2018 issue. https://qualitysafety.bmj.com/content/27/12/1019 In this paper, members of the Lucian […]
Top 2018 articles on patient and family engagement
Throughout 2018, papers on patient and family engagement in quality and safety were high-impact. In this post, we discuss four papers that illustrate some potential benefits and some of the challenges too. What can patients tell us about the quality and safety of hospital care? Findings from a UK multicentre survey study – in print, […]
Intro to the Top 10 articles of 2018
As part of our blog rollout, we’re featuring the Editorial Board’s choice of the top 10 articles from 2018. To arrive at the ‘top articles’ each year, the Editors-in-Chief, this year assisted by our new social media editor, Joel Boggan, compile a list of about 30 candidate articles based on study quality, relevance and interest […]