Table of contents

Quality improvement report

• Reduction of early inpatient transfers and rapid response team calls after implementation of an emergency department intake huddle process (25 March, 2020)

  Sarah Hermanson, Scott Osborn, Christin Gordanier, Evan Coates, Barbara Williams, Craig Blackmore
• Community-based prehabilitation before elective major surgery: the PREP-WELL quality improvement project (24 March, 2020)

  Garry Alan Tew, Robin Bedford, Esther Carr, James William Durrand, Joanne Gray, Rhiannon Hackett, Scott Lloyd, Sarah Peacock, Sarah Taylor, David Yates, Gerard Danjoux
• Testicular cancer: improving outcomes with national quality performance indicators (24 March, 2020)

  Mark A Baxter, Graham MacDonald, Jahangeer Malik, Alistair Law, Åsa Dahle-Smith, Walter Mmeka, Roland Donat, Cj Shukla, John Connor, Colin Houston, Ashita Waterston, Jeff White
• Improving the documentation quality of point-of-care ultrasound scans in the emergency department (24 March, 2020)

  Shadman Aziz, James Bottomley, Vasant Mohandas, Arif Ahmad, Gemma Morelli, Sam Thenabadu
• Improving blood pressure screening and control at an academic health system (24 March, 2020)

  Ulfat Shaikh, Julie Petray, David H Wisner
• Impact of an interdisciplinary malnutrition quality improvement project at a large metropolitan hospital (24 March, 2020)

  Kelsey Jones Pratt, Beverly Hernandez, Robert Blancato, Jeanne Blankenship, Kristi Mitchell
• Closing the gap: actualising shared decision-making through effective medication abortion patient follow-up care (24 March, 2020)

  Erin Fagot
• Missed posterior shoulder fracture dislocations: a new protocol from a London major trauma centre (18 March, 2020)

  Alex Peter Magnussen, Christopher Watura, Nicola Torr, Miny Walker, Dimitri Amiras, Dylan Griffiths
• Sustaining improved nutritional support for very low birthweight infants (17 March, 2020)

  Mitchell Kresch, Kashish Mehra, Richard Jack, Coleen Greecher
• Reducing overutilisation of serum vitamin D testing at a tertiary care centre (24 February, 2020)

  Felicia Tai, Ian Chin-Yee, Alan Gob, Vipin Bhayana, Angela Rutledge
• Promoting appropriate utilisation of laboratory tests for inflammation at an academic medical centre (24 February, 2020)

  Kristen J Bartlett, Ann P Vo, Justin Rueckert, Christina Wojewoda, Elizabeth H Steckel, Justin Stinnett-Donnelly, Allen B Repp
• Enhancing teamwork communication and patient safety responsiveness in a paediatric intensive care unit using the daily safety huddle tool (24 February, 2020)

  Fatima Aldawood, Yasser Kazzaz, Ali AlShehri, Hamza Alali, Khaled Al-Surimi
• Quality improvement programme reduces errors in oral medication preparation and administration through feeding tubes (18 February, 2020)

  Rosana Aparecida Pereira, Fabiana Bolela de Souza, Mayara Carvalho Godinho Rigobello, José Rafael Pereira, Laís Rosa Moreno da Costa, Fernanda Raphael Escobar Gimenes
• The St Thomas’ Hospital Emergency Department Homeless Health Initiative: improving the quality, safety and equity of healthcare provided for homeless patients attending the ED (12 February, 2020)

  Charles Gallaher, Simone Herrmann, Laura Hunter, Alex Wilkins
• Adrenal lesions found incidentally: how to improve clinical and cost-effectiveness (12 February, 2020)

  Fahmy W F Hanna, Basil G Issa, Simon C Lea, Cherian George, Anurag Golash, Mike Firn, Seyi Ogunmekan, Elloise Maddock, Julius Sim, Georgios Xydopoulos, Richard Fordham, Anthony A Fryer
• Increasing the documentation of 48-hour antimicrobial reviews (6 February, 2020)

  Ramandeep Singh Sahota, Kiran Kasper Rajan, Jonathan Mark Sabine Comont, Hyungeun Hans Lee, Nikolina Johnston, Mary James, Rakhee Patel, Joseph Nariculam
• Improving the process of zoning in a community mental health team (4 February, 2020)

  Alexander Adams, Jennifer Perry, Stephanie Young
• Wessex Acute Frailty Audit: applying quality improvement methodology to design and implement a regional frailty audit using a collaborative, multiprofessional approach (3 February, 2020)

  Lucy Anne Lewis, Teresa Corbett, Kerry Burrows, Claire Spice, Cheryl Davies, Kathy Wallis
• Checklist for Head Injury Management Evaluation Study (CHIMES): a quality improvement initiative to reduce imaging utilisation for head injuries in the emergency department (3 February, 2020)

  Sameer Masood, Victoria Woolner, Joo Hyung Yoon, Lucas B Chartier
• Development and implementation of a standardised emergency department intershift handover tool to improve physician communication (3 February, 2020)

  Edmund S H Kwok, Glenda Clapham, Shannon White, Michael Austin, Lisa A Calder
• Improving the wait time to triage at the emergency department (3 February, 2020)

  Yuzeng Shen, Lin Hui Lee
• Working with lay midwives to improve the detection of neonatal complications in rural Guatemala (23 January, 2020)

  Michel Juarez, Yolanda Juarez, Enma Coyote, Tony Nguyen, Corey Shaw, Rachel Hall-Clifford, Gari Clifford, Peter Rohloff
• Improving the effectiveness and efficiency of a skin dose investigation protocol in interventional radiology (9 January, 2020)

  Debbie Harries, David J Platten
• Quality improvement of intravenous to oral medication conversion using Lean Six Sigma methodologies (20 January, 2020)

  Julie Downen, Cassie Jaeger
• Improving the effectiveness and efficiency of a skin dose investigation protocol in interventional radiology (9 January, 2020)

  Debbie Harries, David J Platten
• Embedding best transfusion practice and blood management in neonatal intensive care (7 January, 2020)

  Cindy J Flores, Anil Lakkundi, Joanne McIntosh, Peter Freeman, Amanda Thomson, Ben Saxon, Justine Parsons, Tracey Spigiel, Sarah Milton, Bryony Ross
• Design of a state of the art reporting system and process improvement for reporting of high complexity single antigen bead data for transplant patients to the electronic medical record (7 January, 2020)

  Lupita I Geer, Sonya Kagele, Scot Townshend, Brooke Watson, Elaine F Reed, Michelle J Hickey
• Improving preoperative haemoglobin using a quality improvement approach to treat iron deficiency anaemia (7 January, 2020)

  Rhona CF Sinclair, Kate E Duffield, Jane H de Pennington