BMJ Quality & Safety
is an international peer-reviewed journal covering the science of improvement across healthcare service and provision.
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BMJ Quality & Safety accepts submissions of a wide range of article types, including original research, reviews and research & reporting metholodology.
The Author Information section provides specific article requirements to help you turn your research into an article suitable for BMJ Quality & Safety.
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Latest Articles
Original research:
Estimating the impact on patient safety of enabling the digital transfer of patients prescription information in the English NHS26 March 2024
Original research:
Crowdsourcing a diagnosis? Exploring the accuracy of the size and type of group diagnosis: an experimental study19 March 2024
Editorials:
Variation in quality of care between hospitals: how to identify learning opportunities8 March 2024
Most Read Articles
Original research:
Nurse staffing and inpatient mortality in the English National Health Service: a retrospective longitudinal study19 April 2023
Systematic review:
Identifying and mapping measures of medication safety during transfer of care in a digital era: a scoping literature review19 February 2024
Systematic review:
Systematic review of clinical debriefing tools: attributes and evidence for use19 February 2024
Original research:
What can Safety Cases offer for patient safety? A multisite case study19 February 2024
Current Issue
Editorials:
Lost in translation: does measuring 'adherence to the Surgical Safety Checklist indicate true implementation fidelity?25 March 2024
Editorials:
Elusive but hopefully not illusive: coordinating care for patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction25 March 2024
Editorials:
Effective use of interdisciplinary approaches in healthcare quality: drawing on operations and visual management25 March 2024
Editorials:
Intrapartum electronic fetal monitoring: imperfect technologies and clinical uncertainties--what can a human factors and social science approach add?25 March 2024
Original research:
CheckPOINT: a simple tool to measure Surgical Safety Checklist implementation fidelity25 March 2024
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