Implementing a single shared digital prescribing record across the National Health Service in England could:
☑️ avoid close to 1 million drug errors annually
☑️ harm up to 15,800 fewer patients, and
☑️ save up to 22 lives each year

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🔎 Explore our new open access landing page for authors in healthcare sciences and services: bit.ly/4aCGkuo

📖 Read the latest impact story, featuring a 2019 open access article from BMJ Quality & Safety: bit.ly/4aQmviH

This retrospective cohort study of wrong-patient imaging order errors found that for every error that reaches the patient, an estimated 50 near-miss events occur. bit.ly/4afA63f

💡 Insights from Aebersold & Gonzalez on leveraging simulation to pinpoint health professionals’ skill gaps. Authors advocate for exploring extended reality simulation training, enabling learners to practice with realism & receive timely, targeted feedback bit.ly/3VHYaaC

Read what Rob Challen had to say about the real world impact of publishing in BMJ Quality and Safety, Exeter Med School PenARC (NIHR ARC South West Peninsula) bit.ly/4biWed0 #openaccess #healthcare

🎙️ Senior editors for BMJ Quality & Safety take the opportunity to clarify the overall mission of our journal and share our vision for how the journal can help to move the field forward. bit.ly/3VODDRH

@John_P_Browne, Bryony Dean Franklin, Eric Thomas

Mumma et al., identified the forms of cognitive work associated with the spread of surrogate pathogens during simulated patient care.

System redesign & cognitive skills training can support healthcare workers practising infection prevention & control. bit.ly/4alfDKk

In this ‘Grand Rounds in Methodology’, Amol Verma & colleagues present key considerations for deciding whether a clinical problem might benefit from a Machine Learning solution & evaluating whether a solution is ready for deployment. bit.ly/3R8PtDr

Why is intrapartum electronic fetal monitoring so hard?

This qualitative study highlights how fetal monitoring is a sociotechnically complex practice where people, tasks, tools & technology, organisation & environment interact to affect outcomes. bit.ly/3MJ3qp9

📢New Paper in BMJ Quality & Safety

Our study finds that working arrangements for locum doctors pose significant patient safety challenges for the NHS in England, although there are opportunities to be grasped too.

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The latest BMJ Quality & Safety blog on the upcoming World Health Organization (WHO) #HandHygieneDay2024 (05 May 2024) & the SAVE Lives: Clean your Hands campaign

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#infectionprevention #infectioncontrol #handhygiene

Ermira Tartari Benedetta Allegranzi Aili Langford

Working arrangements for locum doctors pose significant patient safety challenges for the NHS in England finds qualitative research involving a broad spectrum of health professionals, published online in the journal BMJ Quality & Safety. Link: bit.ly/4aT2M22

Out today in BMJ Quality & Safety our paper on quality and safety of locum doctor practice led by Jane Ferguson. Key messages for organisations on how they use locums. Full paper open access at qualitysafety.bmj.com/content/early/…

Just after the 2024 @qualityforum we're pleased to remind you about 'most read' journal content from ourselves and @BMJOpenquality @bmjleader. We hope you enjoy reading, and hope to see you at #quality2025 bit.ly/4cE6ka9

Want a chance to speak to a journal editor about your research? Come to the BMJ stand at #Quality2024 / @qualityforum during this afternoon's tea break, and meet editors from across our journal portfolio James Mountford 🇺🇦 Helen Crisp Eric Thomas #healthcare

This pm @qualityforum, listen to BMJ Open Quality Editor-in-Chief Helen Crisp speak on the panel about the real-world impact of research and the challenges involved in that. Check out today's programme bit.ly/3PMn459 #researchimpact #healthcare #bmjimpactanlaytics

This afternoon, Eric Thomas is speaking on the panel for the debate 'This house believes that patient safety should pursue a zero avoidable harm approach' @qualityforum #quality2024 . Check it out on Thursday's programme bit.ly/3PMn459

Attending #Quality202 today? Might see you at this a.m's 'How to get your quality improvement work published' session with @HelenMcrisp Eric Thomas & Perla Marang-van de Mheen. There's the chance to ask them questions too @qualityforum BMJ bit.ly/3PMn459

It's the 2024 @qualityforum and we're pleased to share 'most read' journal content from ourselves and @BMJOpenquality @bmjleader . We hope you enjoy reading it, and hope to see you if you're at the event #quality2024 #IHIForum #healthcare bit.ly/4cE6ka9

Attending #Quality2024 ? Hope to see you at Thurs 11th's 'How to get your quality improvement work published' session with @HelenMcrisp Eric Thomas & Perla Marang-van de Mheen. There's the chance to ask them questions too @qualityforum BMJ bit.ly/3PMn459