{"id":41,"date":"2019-08-07T08:45:52","date_gmt":"2019-08-07T08:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/qualitysafety\/?p=41"},"modified":"2019-08-15T16:28:42","modified_gmt":"2019-08-15T16:28:42","slug":"updates-in-quality-safety-in-the-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/qualitysafety\/2019\/08\/07\/updates-in-quality-safety-in-the-literature\/","title":{"rendered":"Updates in Quality &amp; Safety in the literature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the latest <a href=\"https:\/\/qualitysafety.bmj.com\/content\/early\/2019\/06\/28\/bmjqs-2019-009918\">review<\/a> of high impact quality and safety articles, authors from the Ann Arbor VA and University of Michigan (including <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JMeddings1\">@JMeddings1<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ashwin_b_gupta\">@ashwin_b_gupta<\/a>) reviewed three recent trials for <em>BMJ Quality &amp; Safety<\/em>. These trials included: (i) the iCOMPARE trial<sup>1<\/sup> of patient safety outcomes by maximum duration of intern duty hour period in the US; (ii) the duration of antibiotics prescribed in English primary practices compared with official recommendations;<sup>2<\/sup> and (iii) complications and costs related to abnormalities seen on low-dose CT during screening for lung cancer in the US.<sup>3<\/sup> More articles in the series can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/qualitysafety.bmj.com\/content\/28\/7\/598\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/qualitysafety.bmj.com\/content\/28\/5\/424\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Silber JH, Bellini LM, Shea JA , et al. <em>Patient safety outcomes under flexible and standard resident duty-hour rules. <\/em>N Engl J Med 2019;380:905\u201314.<\/li>\n<li>Pouwels KB, Hopkins S, Llewelyn MJ, et al.<em> Duration of antibiotic treatment for common infections in English primary care: cross sectional analysis and comparison with guidelines. <\/em>BMJ 2019;364:l440<em>.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Huo J, Xu Y, Sheu T, et al<em>. Complication rates and downstream medical costs associated with invasive diagnostic procedures for lung abnormalities in the community setting. <\/em>JAMA Intern Med 2019;179(3):324\u2013332.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the latest review of high impact quality and safety articles, authors from the Ann Arbor VA and University of Michigan (including @JMeddings1 and @ashwin_b_gupta) reviewed three recent trials for BMJ Quality &amp; Safety. These trials included: (i) the iCOMPARE trial1 of patient safety outcomes by maximum duration of intern duty hour period in the [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/qualitysafety\/2019\/08\/07\/updates-in-quality-safety-in-the-literature\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":368,"featured_media":44,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[13,14,11,4,12,9,10],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-complications","tag-cost","tag-duty-hours","tag-featured-list","tag-guidelines","tag-patient-safety","tag-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/qualitysafety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/qualitysafety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/qualitysafety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/qualitysafety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/368"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/qualitysafety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/qualitysafety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/qualitysafety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/qualitysafety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/qualitysafety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/qualitysafety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}