BMJ Quality & Safety

is an international peer-reviewed journal covering the science of improvement across healthcare service and provision.

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The Journal encourages research and debate about improving the quality and safety of healthcare. It is led by patient-focused editors who seek to help a wide range of international readers — including clinicians, researchers, patients, improvement professionals, administrators and policy makers — to gain knowledge about improving patient care. The journal integrates the academic and clinical aspects of quality and safety in healthcare by encouraging academics to create evidence and knowledge valued by clinicians, and clinicians to value using evidence and knowledge to improve quality.

BMJ Open Quality is a companion journal to BMJ Quality & Safety

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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.

Information is also provided on editorial policies and open access.

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Latest Articles

Editorials:

Diagnostic delay: lessons learnt from marginalised voices

26 March 2025

Original research:

Under-reporting of falls in hospitals: a multisite study in South Korea

26 March 2025

Editorials:

Quality improvement collaborative to increase access to caesarean sections: lessons from Bihar, India

26 March 2025

Original research:

Selecting and tailoring implementation strategies for deimplementing fall prevention alarms in US hospitals: a group concept mapping study

26 March 2025

Original research:

False hope of a single generalisable AI sepsis prediction model: bias and proposed mitigation strategies for improving performance based on a retrospective multisite cohort study

26 March 2025

Most Read Articles

Review:

Diagnostic error in mental health: a review

19 September 2024

Quality improvement report:

Raising the barcode: improving medication safety behaviours through a behavioural science-informed feedback intervention. A quality improvement project and difference-in-difference analysis

19 September 2024

Original research:

Patient safety in remote primary care encounters: multimethod qualitative study combining Safety I and Safety II analysis

16 August 2024

Systematic review:

What and when to debrief: a scoping review examining interprofessional clinical debriefing

24 April 2024

Editorial:

Time for a rebalance: psychological and emotional well-being in the healthcare workforce as the foundation for patient safety

22 July 2024

Current Issue

Editorials:

Choosing 'Less Wisely as a marker of decisional conflict

19 March 2025

Editorials:

Low-quality evidence on practices to prevent transmission of resistant organisms calls for rigorous trials and a paradigm shift

19 March 2025

Original research:

Equity in Choosing Wisely and beyond: the effect of health literacy on healthcare decision-making and methods to support conversations about overuse

19 March 2025

Original research:

Global, regional and national time trends in incidence of adverse effects of medical treatment, 1990-2019: an age-period-cohort analysis from the Global Burden of Disease 2019 study

19 March 2025

Original research:

Factors associated with proximal femoral fractures in older adults during hospital stay: a cross-sectional study

19 March 2025

Blog Posts

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Burden of serious harms from diagnostic error in the USA
17 July 2023

Nurse staffing and inpatient mortality in the English National Health Service: a retrospective longitudinal study
27 September 2022

What do clinical practice guidelines say about deprescribing? A scoping review
24 May 2024

Association between intrahospital transfer and hospital-acquired infection in the elderly: a retrospective case–control study in a UK hospital network
25 January 2021

General practitioners retiring or relocating and its association with healthcare use and mortality: a cohort study using Norwegian national data
26 July 2024

Systems analysis of clinical incidents: development of a new edition of the London Protocol
22 February 2025

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BMJ Quality & Safety - Our Full Story

12 March 2024

Listen to Editors-in-Chief of BMJ Quality & Safety, Bryony Dean Franklin and Eric Thomas, talk about the journal's aims and scope, the advice they have for authors thinking about submitting to the journal, what the journal has to offer to readers, highlights from the journal and what the journal has planned for 2024.

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