This issue includes items on health impacts of climate change, medication safety, medication management at transitions of care, diagnostic safety, trauma, hip fracture, resilient health care, adverse events, COVID-19 and more. Also covered are the latest from BMJ Quality & Safety, Pediatric Quality & Safety, HealthcarePapers Health Affairs Scholar, International Journal for Quality in Health Care  and the UK’s NIHR.

This issue includes items on medication safety, real-time prescription monitoring (RTPM), safety culture and leadership, morbidity and mortality meetings, digital health, COVID-19 and more. Also covered are the latest from BMJ Quality & Safety, Journal of Patient Safety, The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety, BMJ Leader, International Journal for Quality in Health Care  and the latest from the USA’s AHRQ.

Assessment tools for clinicians to consider when making physical and functional and psychosocial assessments when diagnosis of knee osteoarthritis.

This quiz, with questions and the correct answers, is an activity that may be used as part of Infection Prevention and Control Week, which is 13 to 19 October 2024.

This fact sheet provides guidance on the appropriate use of gloves for healthcare workers, including information on environmental sustainability and the impact of inappropriate glove use on patient safety.