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:

Ending nuclear weapons, before they end us

15 May 2025

Editorials:

Why tackling overuse will not succeed without changing our culture

12 May 2025

Original research:

Effectiveness of computerised alerts to reduce drug-drug interactions (DDIs) and DDI-related harm in hospitalised patients: a quasi-experimental controlled pre-post study

11 May 2025

Original research:

Using implementation science to define the model and outcomes for improving quality in NEST360, a multicountry alliance for reducing newborn mortality in sub-Saharan Africa

10 May 2025

Original research:

Patient portal messaging to address delayed follow-up for uncontrolled diabetes: a pragmatic, randomised clinical trial

10 May 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

Editorial:

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

22 July 2024

Systematic review:

Health services under pressure: a scoping review and development of a taxonomy of adaptive strategies

18 October 2024

Current Issue

Editorials:

Testing and cancer diagnosis in general practice

19 May 2025

Editorials:

Just how many diagnostic errors and harms are out there, really? It depends on how you count

19 May 2025

Editorials:

Learning from an allied health perspective on quality and safety

19 May 2025

Editorials:

Increasing surgical volumes in resource limited-healthcare systems: team-based quality improvement as a novel approach to quantity improvement

19 May 2025

Original research:

Variation in the use of primary care-led investigations prior to a cancer diagnosis: analysis of the National Cancer Diagnosis Audit

19 May 2025

Blog Posts

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

Patient-reported harm from NHS treatment or care, or the lack of access to care: a cross-sectional survey of general population prevalence, impact and responses
2 April 2025

Economic analysis of the prevalence and clinical and economic burden of medication error in England
11 June 2020

Trauma Resuscitation Using in situ Simulation Team Training (TRUST) study: latent safety threat evaluation using framework analysis and video review
23 October 2020

Cost-effectiveness of eliminating hospital understaffing by nursing staff: a retrospective longitudinal study and economic evaluation
29 April 2025

Estimating the impact on patient safety of enabling the digital transfer of patients’ prescription information in the English NHS
26 March 2024

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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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