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'Bad apples': time to redefine as a type of systems problem?

scientific article

A mixed-methods study of challenges experienced by clinical teams in measuring improvement

scientific article published on 24 August 2019

A qualitative study comparing experiences of the surgical safety checklist in hospitals in high-income and low-income countries

scientific article

A qualitative study of choosing and using an NHS Walk-in Centre

scientific article published in April 2005

A qualitative study of design stakeholders' views of developing and implementing a registry-based learning health system

scientific article published on 06 March 2020

A qualitative study of families of a child with a nut allergy

scientific article published on 16 August 2011

A qualitative study of participants' views on re-consent in a longitudinal biobank

scientific article

A qualitative study of speaking out about patient safety concerns in intensive care units

scientific article published on 22 September 2017

A qualitative study of the dynamics of access to remote antenatal care through the lens of candidacy

scientific article published on 21 April 2023

A qualitative study of the health-related quality of life of disabled children

scientific article published in September 2007

After Mid Staffordshire: from acknowledgement, through learning, to improvement

scientific article published on 18 July 2014

An analysis of decision letters by research ethics committees: the ethics/scientific quality boundary examined.

scientific article published on April 2008

An ethnographic study of classifying and accounting for risk at the sharp end of medical wards

scientific article published on 15 June 2009

An open letter toThe BMJeditors on qualitative research

scientific article published in the British Medical Journal

Appraising qualitative research for inclusion in systematic reviews: a quantitative and qualitative comparison of three methods

scientific article published on January 2007

Better Reporting of Interventions: Template for Intervention Description and Replication (TIDieR) Checklist and Guide

scientific article published on 29 January 2016

Better Reporting of Interventions: Template for Intervention Description and Replication (TIDieR) Checklist and Guide

scientific article published in March 2016

Better reporting of interventions: template for intervention description and replication (TIDieR) checklist and guide

scientific article (publication date: 7 March 2014)

Between surveillance and subjectification: professionals and the governance of quality and patient safety in English hospitals

scientific article published on 30 October 2013

Beyond metrics? Utilizing 'soft intelligence' for healthcare quality and safety

scientific article published on 31 July 2015

Beyond “misunderstanding”: Written information and decisions about taking part in a genetic epidemiology study

scientific article (publication date: December 2007)

Breaking the ceremonial order: patients' and doctors' accounts of removal from a general practitioner's list

Breaking up is never easy: GPs' accounts of removing patients from their lists.

scientific article published in December 2003

Can an electronic prescribing system detect doctors who are more likely to make a serious prescribing error?

scientific article published in May 2011

Can we tell whether hospital care is safe?

Challenges, solutions and future directions in the evaluation of service innovations in health care and public health

scientific article

Childhood cancer and users' views: a critical perspective

scientific article published on 01 September 2002

Choosing and using services for sexual health: a qualitative study of women's views

scientific article published on October 2001

Conducting a critical interpretive synthesis of the literature on access to healthcare by vulnerable groups

scientific article

Consent for childhood cancer tissue banking in the UK: the effect of the Human Tissue Act 2004.

scientific article published on March 2007

Consent revisited: the impact of return of results on participants' views and expectations about trial participation

scientific article published on 30 April 2015

Consent to tissue banking for research: qualitative study and recommendations ⬇️

scientific article published on May 18, 2012

Consistency in decision making by research ethics committees: a controlled comparison

scientific article published on November 2006

Continuity and trust in primary care: a qualitative study informed by game theory

scientific article

Culture and behaviour in the English National Health Service: overview of lessons from a large multimethod study.

scientific article published on 09 September 2013

Defending Rights or Defending Privileges?

Demystifying theory and its use in improvement

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Describing methods and interventions: a protocol for the systematic analysis of the perioperative quality improvement literature

scientific article

Design-based regulation and patient safety: a regulatory studies perspective

scientific article published on 12 May 2010

Did a quality improvement collaborative make stroke care better? A cluster randomized trial

scientific article published on April 2014

Do informed consent documents for cancer trials do what they should? A study of manifest and latent functions

scientific article (publication date: 22 March 2012)

Do research ethics committees identify process errors in applications for ethical approval?

scientific article published on February 2009

Doing accountability: a discourse analysis of research ethics committee letters

scientific article published on 2 October 2008

Education and self-management for people newly diagnosed with type 2 diabetes: a qualitative study of patients' views

article by Elizabeth Ockleford et al published March 2008 in Chronic Illness

Effect of media portrayals of removal of children's tissue on UK tumour bank

scientific article

Encouraging openness in health care: Policy and practice implications of a mixed-methods study in the English National Health Service

scientific article published on 22 June 2022

Ending the doctor-patient relationship in general practice: a proposed model

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Ethnographic process evaluation of a quality improvement project to improve transitions of care for older people

scientific article

Ethnography as a methodological descriptor: the editors' reply

scholarly article by Mary Dixon-Woods & Kaveh G Shojania published 4 January 2016 in BMJ Quality & Safety

Explaining Matching Michigan: an ethnographic study of a patient safety program

scientific article published on 20 June 2013

Explaining Michigan: developing an ex post theory of a quality improvement program

scientific article

Factors affecting uptake of childhood immunisation: a Bayesian synthesis of qualitative and quantitative evidence

scientific article published in November 2002

Factors influencing repeat caesarean section: qualitative exploratory study of obstetricians' and midwives' accounts

Finding qualitative research: an evaluation of search strategies

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Frameworks for change in healthcare organisations: a formative evaluation of the NHS Change Model

scientific article published on August 2013

Gender and access to healthcare in the UK: a critical interpretive synthesis of the literature

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Getting women to hospital is not enough: a qualitative study of access to emergency obstetric care in Bangladesh.

scientific article published on June 2006

How Well Is Quality Improvement Described in the Perioperative Care Literature? A Systematic Review

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How can systematic reviews incorporate qualitative research? A critical perspective

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How collaborative are quality improvement collaboratives: a qualitative study in stroke care

scientific article published on 11 March 2014

How not to waste a crisis: a qualitative study of problem definition and its consequences in three hospitals

scientific article published on 01 March 2019

How to be a very safe maternity unit: An ethnographic study

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How to study improvement interventions: a brief overview of possible study types

scientific article

How to study improvement interventions: a brief overview of possible study types.

scientific article published on 25 March 2015

How will it work? A qualitative study of strategic stakeholders' accounts of a patient safety initiative

scientific article published in February 2010

Human Tissue and ‘the Public’: The Case of Childhood Cancer Tumour Banking

scientific article (publication date: March 2008)

Identity and role in parenting a child with cancer

scientific article

Improving quality and safety of care using "technovigilance": an ethnographic case study of secondary use of data from an electronic prescribing and decision support system

scientific article

Improving recruitment to clinical trials for cancer in childhood

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Informed consent for elective and emergency surgery: questionnaire study

scientific article published on October 2004

Interpreting change: the role of qualitative research in evaluating interventions in chronic respiratory disease

Introduction

Keystone, matching Michigan, and bacteremia zero

scientific article published in May 2014

Large scale organisational intervention to improve patient safety in four UK hospitals: mixed method evaluation

scientific article

Lay evaluation of services for childhood asthma

scientific article published in November 2002

Learning from high risk industries may not be straightforward: a qualitative study of the hierarchy of risk controls approach in healthcare

scientific article published on 27 December 2017

Learning through observation: the role of ethnography in improving critical care

scientific article published on December 2010

Making soft intelligence hard: a multi-site qualitative study of challenges relating to voice about safety concerns

scientific article published on 19 February 2018

Managing communication with young people who have a potentially life threatening chronic illness: qualitative study of patients and parents

scientific article

Modernising medical regulation: where are we now?

scientific article published on 01 January 2010

Multimethod study of a large-scale programme to improve patient safety using a harm-free care approach

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Multiple component patient safety intervention in English hospitals: controlled evaluation of second phase

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Optimizing patient involvement in quality improvement

scientific article published on 03 February 2013

Organising services for influenza vaccination for older people

article by Mary Dixon-Woods et al published April 2004 in Journal of Health Services Research and Policy

Parenting in a crisis: conceptualising mothers of children with cancer

scientific article published in November 2002

Parents' accounts of obtaining a diagnosis of childhood cancer

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Parents' accounts of wheeze and asthma related symptoms: a qualitative study.

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Patient safety and the problem of many hands

scientific article published on 24 February 2016

Patients' accounts of being removed from their general practitioner's list: qualitative study

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Patients' perceptions of written consent: questionnaire study ⬇️

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Practices and views on fetal heart monitoring: a structured observation and interview study

scientific article published on 01 April 2006

Primary care quality and safety systems in the English National Health Service: a case study of a new type of primary care provider

scientific article published on 6 September 2013

Problems and promises of innovation: why healthcare needs to rethink its love/hate relationship with the new.

scientific article published on April 2011

Professionalism Redundant, Reshaped, or Reinvigorated? Realizing the "Third Logic" in Contemporary Health Care

scientific article published on 14 August 2015

Promotion of improvement as a science

scientific article

Providing the results of research to participants: a mixed-method study of the benefits and challenges of a consultative approach

scientific article (publication date: June 2011)

Provision of cancer information as a "support for navigating the knowledge landscape": findings from a critical interpretive literature synthesis

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Qualitative research on breastfeeding in the UK: a narrative review and methodological reflection

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Qualitative study of views and experiences of performance management for healthcare-associated infections

scientific article published on 12 February 2016

Quality improvement through clinical communities: eight lessons for practice

scientific article published on January 2012

Reality check for checklists

scientific article published in The Lancet

Receiving a summary of the results of a trial: qualitative study of participants' views

scientific article

Reciprocal peer review for quality improvement: an ethnographic case study of the Improving Lung Cancer Outcomes Project

scientific article published on 09 August 2012

Referral and attendance at a specialist antenatal clinic: a qualitative study of women’s views

Referral and attendance at a specialist antenatal clinic: qualitative study of women's views.

scientific article published in August 2006

Regulating research, regulating professionals

scientific article published in April 2010

Regulation and the social licence for medical research

scientific article (publication date: 17 July 2008)

Representing childhood cancer: accounts from newspapers and parents

Research involving adults who lack capacity: how have research ethics committees interpreted the requirements?

scientific article published on June 2009

Research involving storage and use of human tissue: how did the Human Tissue Act 2004 affect decisions by research ethics committees?

scientific article published on September 2009

Researching chronic childhood illness: the example of childhood cancer

scientific article published on September 2006

Response to Kennedy and Farthing

Seeking consent to tissue banking: a survey of health professionals in childhood cancer

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Still awaiting screening facts

scientific article published in the British Medical Journal

Synthesising qualitative and quantitative evidence: a review of possible methods

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Synthesizing qualitative research: a review of published reports

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Taking the heat or taking the temperature? A qualitative study of a large-scale exercise in seeking to measure for improvement, not blame

scientific article published on 2 January 2018

Teaching and learning about human sexuality in undergraduate medical education

scientific article published in May 2002

Ten challenges in improving quality in healthcare: lessons from the Health Foundation's programme evaluations and relevant literature

scientific article

The friends and family test: a qualitative study of concerns that influence the willingness of English National Health Service staff to recommend their organisation

scientific article published on 29 April 2014

The problem of appraising qualitative research

scientific article published on June 2004

The role of primary care professionals in women's experiences of cervical cancer screening: a qualitative study

The social licence for research: why care.data ran into trouble

scientific article

Towards a new era of tissue-based diagnosis and research

scientific article published on December 2007

Unblinding following trial participation: qualitative study of participants' perspectives

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Using framework-based synthesis for conducting reviews of qualitative studies

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Walkrounds in practice: corrupting or enhancing a quality improvement intervention? A qualitative study

scientific article published on July 2014

What counts? An ethnographic study of infection data reported to a patient safety program

scientific article (publication date: September 2012)

What do research ethics committees say about applications to conduct research involving children?

What do research ethics committees say about applications to do cancer trials?

scientific article published in August 2008

What do they know?: a content analysis of women's perceptions of trial information

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What is the right approach to infection prevention and control for children living at home with invasive devices?

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What is the role of individual accountability in patient safety? A multi-site ethnographic study

scientific article published on 4 November 2015

What to expect when you're evaluating healthcare improvement: a concordat approach to managing collaboration and uncomfortable realities

scientific article published on 2 April 2015

When Counting Central Line Infections Counts ⬇️

scientific article published on April 18, 2013

Whose interest? British newspaper reporting of use of medical records for research

Why do people cooperate with medical research? Findings from three studies

scientific article (publication date: June 2009)

Why do women consent to surgery, even when they do not want to? An interactionist and Bourdieusian analysis

scientific article published on 15 December 2005

Why is U.K. medicine no longer a self-regulating profession? The role of scandals involving "bad apple" doctors

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Why is compliance with occlusion therapy for amblyopia so hard? A qualitative study

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Why is patient safety so hard in low-income countries? A qualitative study of healthcare workers' views in two African hospitals

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Why is patient safety so hard? A selective review of ethnographic studies

scientific article published on January 2010

Women's accounts of consenting to surgery: is consent a quality problem?

scientific article published on December 2004

Women's views and experiences of a patient preference trial in surgery: a qualitative study of the CARPET1 trial

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Writing wrongs? An analysis of published discourses about the use of patient information leaflets.

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Written work: the social functions of Research Ethics Committee letters

scientific article published on 8 May 2007

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