BMJ Quality & Safety

BMJ Quality & Safety is a peer-reviewed journal focused on enhancing patient safety and the quality of healthcare. Originally founded in 1992 as Quality in Health Care, it later changed its name to Quality & Safety in Health Care before adopting its current title in 2011. The journal is published by BMJ Publishing Group, with Kaveh G. Shojania from the University of Toronto serving as the editor-in-chief.

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Regulating voluntary assisted dying at the clinical coalface: a qualitative interview study in Victoria, Australia

5 days ago | qualitysafety.bmj.com | Casey M Haining |Lindy Willmott |Ben White

AbstractBackground Voluntary assisted dying (VAD) in Victoria, Australia, is governed by a stringent legislative framework, designed and enforced by the state, as well as other forms of regulation. However, there remains limited understanding about how these various forms of regulation operate at the frontline or how clinicians themselves can influence regulation.
We will take some team resilience, please: Evidence-based recommendations for supporting diagnostic teamwork

2 months ago | qualitysafety.bmj.com | Gabriela Castillo |Eduardo Salas |Eric Thomas

TeamsOrganizational theoryMedical error, measurement/epidemiologyHuman factorsHuman errorIn this issue of BMJ Quality and Safety, Black and colleagues present a qualitative study of healthcare teams working to uncover diagnoses in patients experiencing non-specific cancer symptoms.1 The study highlights the criticality of teams in helping support or derail diagnostic pathways.
Reducing the value/burden ratio: a key to high performance in value-based care

Jan 28, 2025 | qualitysafety.bmj.com | Patrick Runnels |Peter Pronovost

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Choosing ‘Less’ Wisely as a marker of decisional conflict

Jan 27, 2025 | qualitysafety.bmj.com | Karen Okrainec |Melissa Roy

Choosing ‘Less’ Wisely as a marker of decisional conflict Free Statistics from Altmetric.com Request Permissions If you wish to reuse any or all of this article please use the link below which will take you to the Copyright Clearance Center’s RightsLink service. You will be able to get a quick price and instant permission to reuse the content in many different ways. CommunicationShared decision makingPatient-centred careHealthcare is at a crossroads.
The beast and the burden: will pruning performance measurement improve quality?

Jan 20, 2025 | qualitysafety.bmj.com | Eric Schneider

Performance measuresQuality measurementQuality improvementPay for performanceProgrammes dedicated to driving improvement in healthcare quality have grown dramatically in the last two decades. Accreditation programmes along with performance measurement and reporting have been central to these efforts.
Art of leading quality improvement

Jan 11, 2025 | qualitysafety.bmj.com | Maitreya Coffey |Kelly Smith |Temerty Faculty

Healthcare quality improvement Leadership Quality improvement In their article in this issue of BMJ Quality and Safety, ‘We listened and depended on and supported each other’, Ginsburg et al examine how leaders shaped the site-level experience in a quality improvement collaborative aimed at improving safety in long-term elder care.1 They performed a secondary thematic analysis of an existing mixed-methods data set generated from over 150 leaders and staff at 31 sites, where the qualitative...
Audit and feedback to improve antibiotic prescribing in primary care-the time is now

Jan 11, 2025 | qualitysafety.bmj.com | Bradley J. Langford |Kevin Schwartz

Audit and feedbackGeneral practiceHealth policyImplementation sciencePrimary careAntimicrobial resistance (AMR) has quietly become a global health crisis, claiming 1.1 million lives annually as of 2021. If left unchecked, the death toll is forecasted to climb to 1.9 million per year by 2050.1Despite the mounting volume of data on the burden of AMR, the global response has been sluggish with limited progress.
The problem with uptake as a quality metric for population-based screening programmes

Nov 26, 2024 | qualitysafety.bmj.com | Natalie Armstrong |Sian Taylor-Phillips

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Integration and connection: the key to effectiveness of large-scale pharmacist-led medication reviews?

Nov 20, 2024 | qualitysafety.bmj.com | Anna Robinson-Barella

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Beyond polypharmacy to the brave new world of minimum datasets and artificial intelligence: thumbing a nose to Henry

Nov 20, 2024 | qualitysafety.bmj.com | Adam Todd |Barbara Hanratty

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