The BMJ research: sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors and risk of autoimmune rheumatic diseases In October 2025, The BMJ published the first nationwide population based cohort study to examine the association between sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 (SGLT2) inhibitors and risk of autoimmune rheumatic diseases (ARDs). Drawing on data from more than ...
How BMJ Global Health underpinned WHO and UNICEF's first community hand hygiene guidelines In October 2025, BMJ Global Health published an open access supplement, The evidence to establish global guidelines on hand hygiene in community settings. The collection brings together five systematic reviews and forms the evidence ...
Improving allied health decision making to reduce readmissions Hospital readmissions place sustained pressure on inpatient services and are frequently influenced by modifiable factors, including how patients are identified for targeted allied health input. Observational studies have shown that higher hospital investment in occupational therapy is associated with lower readmission ...
How connections made at the International Forum accelerated international change In 2020, Australia's largest public health service, Monash Health, began work to improve recognition of paediatric deterioration by partnering more closely with parents and families. A co-design process with consumers and clinicians resulted in a single proactive ...
Reflections from the past 30 years Since 1996, the International Forum on Quality and Safety in Healthcare has brought together clinicians, policymakers and improvers from around the world. This special supplement highlights voices and experience from three decades of shared learning that has helped shape safer, higher ...
Supporting early-career voices in improvement work The next generation advisory panel (NGAP) ensures that the perspectives of early-career healthcare professionals inform the planning and delivery of the International Forum on Quality and Safety in Healthcare. The panel advises on programme development and provides strategic direction on how ...
Spotlight on the Communicate study: Northern Territory Health In the hospitals of the Northern Territory state of Australia, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people experience poorer outcomes and higher rates of self-discharge than non-Indigenous patients. These disparities reflect the ongoing effects of colonisation, structural racism and communication ...
BMJ Case Reports: spotlight on nutritional safety The BMJ Case Report, "Scurvy – a re-emerging disease with the rising cost of living and number of bariatric surgical procedures”, arose when a man in his early fifties presented to Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital in Western Australia with a ...
Improving youth healthcare across Queensland, Australia The Queensland Clinical Senate is an advisory body for Queensland Health that brings clinicians together to examine how the health system is working in practice. At the Adolescent to Young Adult Care: Doing Better meeting in December 2020, clinicians were clear that ...
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