Quality in Primary Care Open Access

Editorial

Why quality improvement initiatives succeed or fail: the MUSIQ of quality improvement

• A Niroshan Siriwardena

Research Paper

Group counselling improves quality for patients with limited health literacy

• Kristin M Anderson, Seth C Holloway, Nafeesa Sultana, Wendy E Braund, Linda M Harris, Lilly VK Siems

Research Paper

Primary healthcare response to family violence: a Delphi evaluation tool

• Claire Gear, Jane Koziol McLain, Denise Wilson, Ngaire Rae, Hayley Samuel, Faye Clark, Edith McNeill

Research Paper

Resilience and smoking: the implications for general practitioners and other primary healthcare practitioners

• Paul R Ward, Annie Lin

Research Paper

Referral Writer: preliminary evidence for the value of comprehensive referral letters

• Moyez Jiwa, Satvinder Dhaliwal

Discussion Paper

NICE and the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) 2009–2011

• Tim Stokes, Helen Lester, Daniel Sutcliffe, John Hutton

International Exchange

Increasing the general level of academic capacity in general practice: introducing mandatory research training for general practitioner trainees through a participatory research process

• Charlotte Tulinius, Anni Brit Sternhagen Nielsen, Lars J Hansen, Rikke Dalsted, Christian Hermann, Lioudmila Vlasova

Quality Improvement Report

Evaluation of the methodological quality of the Health Protection Agency’s 2009 guidance on neuraminidase inhibitors

• Kevork Hopayian, Lucy Jackson

Principles of Quality Management

Primary care quality digest

• Alison Price