BMJ Quality & Safety

Papers
(The TQCC of BMJ Quality & Safety is 9. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Economic analysis of the prevalence and clinical and economic burden of medication error in England153
Chronic hospital nurse understaffing meets COVID-19: an observational study146
Managing teamwork in the face of pandemic: evidence-based tips85
Impact of providing patients access to electronic health records on quality and safety of care: a systematic review and meta-analysis63
SEIPS 101 and seven simple SEIPS tools62
Use of telecritical care for family visitation to ICU during the COVID-19 pandemic: an interview study and sentiment analysis60
Prevalence of harmful diagnostic errors in hospitalised adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis53
Impact of multidisciplinary team huddles on patient safety: a systematic review and proposed taxonomy51
Impact of COVID-19 restrictions on diabetes health checks and prescribing for people with type 2 diabetes: a UK-wide cohort study involving 618 161 people in primary care48
Vulnerability of the medical product supply chain: the wake-up call of COVID-1947
The problem with making Safety-II work in healthcare36
Overuse of diagnostic testing in healthcare: a systematic review33
Understanding decisions about antibiotic prescribing in ICU: an application of the Necessity Concerns Framework32
International recommendations for a vascular access minimum dataset: a Delphi consensus-building study32
Exploring the actionability of healthcare performance indicators for quality of care: a qualitative analysis of the literature, expert opinion and user experience31
Advancing health equity in patient safety: a reckoning, challenge and opportunity27
Associations of workflow disruptions in the operating room with surgical outcomes: a systematic review and narrative synthesis27
A realist synthesis of quality improvement curricula in undergraduate and postgraduate medical education: what works, for whom, and in what contexts?27
Incidence, nature and causes of avoidable significant harm in primary care in England: retrospective case note review27
Cost of contact: redesigning healthcare in the age of COVID26
Seven features of safety in maternity units: a framework based on multisite ethnography and stakeholder consultation25
Prevalence and characterisation of diagnostic error among 7-day all-cause hospital medicine readmissions: a retrospective cohort study24
Effects of night surgery on postoperative mortality and morbidity: a multicentre cohort study24
Effectiveness of a medication adherence management intervention in a community pharmacy setting: a cluster randomised controlled trial24
Adherence to guideline-recommended HbA1c testing frequency and better outcomes in patients with type 2 diabetes: a 5-year retrospective cohort study in Australian general practice23
Effectiveness of a multifaceted intervention to improve emergency department care of low back pain: a stepped-wedge, cluster-randomised trial23
Systematic review and meta-analysis of interventions for operating room to intensive care unit handoffs23
Antibiotic overuse: managing uncertainty and mitigating against overtreatment23
Socioeconomic deprivation and ethnicity inequalities in disruption to NHS hospital admissions during the COVID-19 pandemic: a national observational study22
Optimising GPs’ communication of advice to facilitate patients’ self-care and prompt follow-up when the diagnosis is uncertain: a realist review of ‘safety-netting’ in primary care22
Should electronic differential diagnosis support be used early or late in the diagnostic process? A multicentre experimental study of Isabel22
Trauma Resuscitation Using in situ Simulation Team Training (TRUST) study: latent safety threat evaluation using framework analysis and video review22
Medication-related interventions delivered both in hospital and following discharge: a systematic review and meta-analysis21
Incidence, origins and avoidable harm of missed opportunities in diagnosis: longitudinal patient record review in 21 English general practices21
Assessment of a quality improvement intervention to decrease opioid prescribing in a regional health system20
Examining the effect of quality improvement initiatives on decreasing racial disparities in maternal morbidity19
Effect of preoperative education and ICU tour on patient and family satisfaction and anxiety in the intensive care unit after elective cardiac surgery: a randomised controlled trial18
Effects of a refined evidence-based toolkit and mentored implementation on medication reconciliation at 18 hospitals: results of the MARQUIS2 study18
Interventions targeted at reducing diagnostic error: systematic review17
Associations between double-checking and medication administration errors: a direct observational study of paediatric inpatients17
Complex interplay between moral distress and other risk factors of burnout in ICU professionals: findings from a cross-sectional survey study17
A realist synthesis of pharmacist-conducted medication reviews in primary care after leaving hospital: what works for whom and why?17
Effectiveness of chest pain centre accreditation on the management of acute coronary syndrome: a retrospective study using a national database17
The Irish National Adverse Event Study-2 (INAES-2): longitudinal trends in adverse event rates in the Irish healthcare system17
To improve quality, leverage design17
Visual mapping of team dynamics and communication patterns on surgical ward rounds: an ethnographic study16
Cutting edge or blunt instrument: how to decide if a stepped wedge design is right for you16
Making communication and resolution programmes mission critical in healthcare organisations16
Improving diagnostic performance through feedback: the Diagnosis Learning Cycle16
Association between intrahospital transfer and hospital-acquired infection in the elderly: a retrospective case–control study in a UK hospital network16
Filling a gap in safety metrics: development of a patient-centred framework to identify and categorise patient-reported breakdowns related to the diagnostic process in ambulatory care16
Medication-related interventions to improve medication safety and patient outcomes on transition from adult intensive care settings: a systematic review and meta-analysis16
Concordance with urgent referral guidelines in patients presenting with any of six ‘alarm’ features of possible cancer: a retrospective cohort study using linked primary care records15
Improving peripherally inserted central catheter appropriateness and reducing device-related complications: a quasiexperimental study in 52 Michigan hospitals15
Impact of unacceptable behaviour between healthcare workers on clinical performance and patient outcomes: a systematic review15
Is greater patient involvement associated with higher satisfaction? Experimental evidence from a vignette survey15
Use of patient complaints to identify diagnosis-related safety concerns: a mixed-method evaluation15
Bridging the feedback gap: a sociotechnical approach to informing clinicians of patients’ subsequent clinical course and outcomes15
Improving the quality of self-management support in ambulatory cancer care: a mixed-method study of organisational and clinician readiness, barriers and enablers for tailoring of implementation strate14
Diagnostic error in hospitals: finding forests not just the big trees14
The problem with ‘My Five Moments for Hand Hygiene’14
Barriers and enablers to monitoring and deprescribing opioid analgesics for chronic non-cancer pain: a systematic review with qualitative evidence synthesis using the Theoretical Domains Framework14
Factors influencing physician responsiveness to nurse-initiated communication: a qualitative study14
Barriers and enablers to the implementation of multidisciplinary team meetings: a qualitative study using the theoretical domains framework14
Impact of COVID-19 on opioid use in those awaiting hip and knee arthroplasty: a retrospective cohort study14
Grand rounds in methodology: when are realist reviews useful, and what does a ‘good’ realist review look like?14
Patient-level and hospital-level variation and related time trends in COVID-19 case fatality rates during the first pandemic wave in England: multilevel modelling analysis of routine data14
Sustaining quality improvement efforts: emerging principles and practice14
Use of e-triggers to identify diagnostic errors in the paediatric ED13
Improving responses to safety incidents: we need to talk about justice13
Patient-centred care delivered by general practitioners: a qualitative investigation of the experiences and perceptions of patients and providers13
Striving for high reliability in healthcare: a qualitative study of the implementation of a hospital safety programme12
Looking back on the history of patient safety: an opportunity to reflect and ponder future challenges12
Timeout procedure in paediatric surgery: effective tool or lip service? A randomised prospective observational study12
Time out! Rethinking surgical safety: more than just a checklist12
National improvements in resident physician-reported patient safety after limiting first-year resident physicians’ extended duration work shifts: a pooled analysis of prospective cohort studies12
Barcode medication administration technology use in hospital practice: a mixed-methods observational study of policy deviations12
Effects of CPOE-based medication ordering on outcomes: an overview of systematic reviews12
Identifying and encouraging high-quality healthcare: an analysis of the content and aims of patient letters of compliment12
COVID-19 hospital prevalence as a risk factor for mortality: an observational study of a multistate cohort of 62 hospitals12
Safety implications of remote assessments for suspected COVID-19: qualitative study in UK primary care11
User-testing guidelines to improve the safety of intravenous medicines administration: a randomised in situ simulation study11
Priorities to improve the care for chronic conditions and multimorbidity: a survey of patients and stakeholders nested within the ComPaRe e-cohort11
From kamishibai card to key card: a family-targeted quality improvement initiative to reduce paediatric central line-associated bloodstream infections11
Implementing receiver-driven handoffs to the emergency department to reduce miscommunication11
Changing hospital organisational culture for improved patient outcomes: developing and implementing the leadership saves lives intervention11
Achieving patient priorities: an alternative to patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) for promoting patient-centred care11
Virtual learning collaboratives to improve urine culturing and antibiotic prescribing in long-term care: controlled before-and-after study11
Can we safely continue to offer surgical treatments during the COVID-19 pandemic?11
Using a dark logic model to explore adverse effects in audit and feedback: a qualitative study of gaming in colonoscopy11
Systematically capturing and acting on insights from front-line staff: the ‘Bedside Learning Coordinator’11
Determining the skills needed by frontline NHS staff to deliver quality improvement: findings from six case studies11
Adverse events in the paediatric emergency department: a prospective cohort study11
Communication about sexual orientation and gender between clinicians, LGBT+ people facing serious illness and their significant others: a qualitative interview study of experiences, preferences and re10
Primary care physician’s (PCP) perceived value of patient-reported outcomes (PROs) in clinical practice: a mixed methods study10
Helping healthcare teams to debrief effectively: associations of debriefers’ actions and participants’ reflections during team debriefings10
Standardised approach to measuring goal-based outcomes among older disabled adults: results from a multisite pilot10
Emotional safetyispatient safety10
Improving surgical quality in low-income and middle-income countries: why do some health facilities perform better than others?10
Inpatient patient safety events in vulnerable populations: a retrospective cohort study10
Changes in weekend and weekday care quality of emergency medical admissions to 20 hospitals in England during implementation of the 7-day services national health policy10
Work effort, readability and quality of pharmacy transcription of patient directions from electronic prescriptions: a retrospective observational cohort analysis10
Economic evaluations of audit and feedback interventions: a systematic review10
Choosing quality problems wisely: identifying improvements worth developing and sustaining9
Sustainability of paediatric asthma care quality in community hospitals after ending a national quality improvement collaborative9
Accreditation in health care: does it make any difference to patient outcomes?9
Reaching 95%: decision support tools are the surest way to improve diagnosis now9
Variation in the design of Do Not Resuscitate orders and other code status options: a multi-institutional qualitative study9
Patient safety and hospital visiting at the end of life during COVID-19 restrictions in Aotearoa New Zealand: a qualitative study9
Choice architecture in physician–patient communication: a mixed-methods assessments of physicians’ competency9
Medical crisis checklists in the emergency department: a simulation-based multi-institutional randomised controlled trial9
Variation in timely surgery for hip fracture by day and time of presentation: a nationwide prospective cohort study from the National Hip Fracture Database for England, Wales and Northern Ireland9
mHOMR: the acceptability of an automated mortality prediction model for timely identification of patients for palliative care9
How do hospital inpatients conceptualise patient safety? A qualitative interview study using constructivist grounded theory9
The debrief imperative: building teaming competencies and team effectiveness9
Overdiagnosis of urinary tract infection linked to overdiagnosis of pneumonia: a multihospital cohort study9
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