How do you know when a scholarly discipline comes of age? For example, just two or three
decades ago, the field of health services research was an infant, with little attention paid to it …

What went wrong with the quality and safety agenda? An essay by Michael Buist and Sarah
Middleton | The BMJ Skip to main content Intended for healthcare professionals Access …

Transparency and reproducibility are two of the fundamental principles of evidence
generation and dissemination of research knowledge. 1 2 Researchers ask questions …

Classic publication ('file drawer') bias and related reporting biases threaten the validity of the
scientific literature. Theoretical considerations and empirical data have demonstrated that in …

In the first months of their scientific training students are taught the importance of transparent
descriptions of methods and results in scientific communication. Scientists exchange not …

Research in the quality and safety field often necessitates an approach that supports the
development of an in-depth understanding of how a complex phenomenon occurs, or how …

The role that organisations play in provoking or preventing accidents1 has been long
studied in industry, but has only recently begun to gain attention in health care. But …

Background Dickersin and Min define publication bias as the failure to publish the results of
a study 'on the basis of the direction or strength of the study findings'. 1 This non-publication …

There was a time, a mere 10 or 15 years ago, when a literature review involved hours spent
in a library going through volumes that indexed professional publications. Perhaps not …

In the 15years since To Err is Human was published, 1 the US healthcare industry has
worked diligently to improve patient safety. Although progress has been made in reducing …