Table of contents

Quality improvement report

• Quality improvement report: setting up a hospital at night service, limitations of bleep filtering and using an electronic task management system (30 March, 2021)

  Aaisha Saqib, Kevin Cairney, Karen Mcintyre, Emma Coutts, Tamara Stephens, Lesley Roberts, Sandip Banerjee
• Evaluation of a ‘drop box’ doorstep assessment service to aid remote assessments for COVID-19 in general practice (29 March, 2021)

  Greg Irving, David Lawson, Adele Tinsley, Helen Parr, Cheryl Whittaker, Hayley Jones, Stephen Cox
• Single-lead ECGs (AliveCor) are a feasible, cost-effective and safer alternative to 12-lead ECGs in community diagnosis and monitoring of atrial fibrillation (19 March, 2021)

  Jonathan James Hyett Bray, Elin Fflur Lloyd, Firdaus Adenwalla, Sarah Kelly, Kathie Wareham, Julian P J Halcox
• Improving intravenous-to-oral antibiotic switch in children: a team-based audit and implementation approach (17 March, 2021)

  Brendan Joseph McMullan, Michelle Mahony, Lolita Java, Mona Mostaghim, Michael Plaister, Camille Wu, Sophie White, Laila Al Yazidi, Erica Martin, Penelope Bryant, Karin A Thursky, Evette Buono
• Implementation of a nutrition screening tool to improve nutritional status of children with cancer in Singapore’s largest paediatric hospital (11 March, 2021)

  Wee Meng Han, Jasly YS Koo, Yan Yin Lim, Prasad Iyer, Chengsi Ong, Jasper WK Tong, Mei Yoke Chan
• Improving the accuracy of ICD-10 coding of morbidity/mortality data through the introduction of an electronic diagnostic terminology tool at the general hospitals in Lagos, Nigeria (5 March, 2021)

  Olawunmi Olagundoye, Kees van Boven, Olufunmilola Daramola, Kendra Njoku, Adenike Omosun
• Targeted rehabilitation may improve patient flow and outcomes: development and implementation of a novel Proactive Rehabilitation Screening (PReS) service (8 March, 2021)

  Jane Wu, Olivia Misa, Christine T Shiner, Steven G Faux
• Testing and implementing video consulting for outpatient appointments: using quality improvement system thinking and codesign principles (5 March, 2021)

  Clare Morrison, Michelle Beattie, Joseph Wherton, Cameron Stark, Julie Anderson, Carolyn Hunter-Rowe, Nicola M Gray
• Creating a culture of quality: our experience with providing feedback to frontline hospitalists (5 March, 2021)

  Brittany Becker, Sneha Nagavally, Nicholas Wagner, Rebekah Walker, Yogita Segon, Ankur Segon
• Improving the accuracy of ICD-10 coding of morbidity/mortality data through the introduction of an electronic diagnostic terminology tool at the general hospitals in Lagos, Nigeria (5 March, 2021)

  Olawunmi Olagundoye, Kees van Boven, Olufunmilola Daramola, Kendra Njoku, Adenike Omosun
• Care homes education: what can we learn? (24 February, 2021)

  Sarah Frances Armstrong, Tim Gluck, Anna Gorringe, Annie Stork, Sally Jowett, J J Nadicksbernd, Matthew Salt, Kelly Bradley
• Enhancing care of children with complex healthcare needs: an improvement project in a community health organisation in Ireland (22 February, 2021)

  Maria Brenner, Amanda Doyle, Thelma Begley, Carmel Doyle, Katie Hill, Maryanne Murphy
• Bundle approach used to achieve zero central line-associated bloodstream infections in an adult coronary intensive care unit (17 February, 2021)

  Poonam Gupta, Mincy Thomas, Ashfaq Patel, Reeba George, Leena Mathews, Seenu Alex, Siji John, Cherlyn Simbulan, Ma Leni Garcia, Sara Al-Balushi, Mawahib El Hassan
• Reaching the summit of discharge summaries: a quality improvement project (15 February, 2021)

  Richard Thomas Richmond, Isobel Joy McFadzean, Pramodh Vallabhaneni
• Improving centre-based group exercise participation of older adults using the behaviour change wheel (15 February, 2021)

  Boon Chong Kwok, Wai Pong Wong, Louisa Remedios
• Improving clinical documentation: introduction of electronic health records in paediatrics (15 February, 2021)

  Justin Koh, Mansoor Ahmed
• Secondary care interface: optimising communication between teams within secondary care to improve the rehabilitation journey for older people (12 February, 2021)

  Sean Testrow, Ryan McGovern, Vicki Tully
• Quality improvement time-saving intervention to increase use of a clinical decision support tool to reduce low-value diagnostic imaging in a safety net health system (12 February, 2021)

  Bryanna Lee, John Mafi, Maitraya K Patel, Andrea Sorensen, Sitaram Vangala, Eric Wei, Catherine Sarkisian
• OR and ICU teams ‘running in parallel’ at the end of cardiothoracic surgery improves perceptions of handoff safety (10 February, 2021)

  Safraz Hamid, Frederic Joyce, Aaliya Burza, Billy Yang, Alexander Le, Ahmad Saleh, Robert S Poston
• Results and lessons from a hospital-wide initiative incentivised by delivery system reform to improve infection prevention and sepsis care (4 February, 2021)

  Pranavi Sreeramoju, Karla Voy-Hatter, Calvin White, Rosechelle Ruggiero, Carlos Girod, Joseph Minei, Karen Garvey, Judith Herrington, Abu Minhajuddin, Christopher Madden, Robert Haley, Fred Cerise
• Improving the management of type 2 diabetes through large-scale general practice: the role of a data-driven and technology-enabled education programme (5 February, 2021)

  Tarek F Radwan, Yvette Agyako, Alireza Ettefaghian, Tahira Kamran, Omar Din, Mohammad Aumran Tahir, Peter Schofield, Veline L'Esperance
• Access to Translator (AT&T) project: Interpreter on Wheels during the COVID-19 pandemic (4 February, 2021)

  Matthew Mo Kin Kwok, Richard K Chan, Cindy Hansen, Kris Thibault, Hing Yi Wong
• Implementation of a multicomponent intervention sign to reduce delirium in orthopaedic inpatients (MIND-ORIENT): a quality improvement project (1 February, 2021)

  Christina Reppas-Rindlisbacher, Shailee Siddhpuria, Eric Kai-Chung Wong, Justin Yusen Lee, Christopher Gabor, Alexandra Curkovic, Yasmin Khalili, Caroline Mavrak, Sandra De Freitas, Kristeen Eshak, Christopher Patterson
• Lean thinking: using 6S and visual management for efficient adverse event closure (26 January, 2021)

  Ziad Alzahrani
• Time to ACT: launching an Addiction Care Team (ACT) in an urban safety-net health system (26 January, 2021)

  Marlene Martin, Hannah R Snyder, Diana Coffa, Scott Steiger, Joseph P Clement, Sumant R Ranji, Soraya Azari, Oanh K Nguyen, Paula J Lum
• NO WAIT: new organised well-adapted immediate triage: a lean improvement project (22 January, 2021)

  Ahmed Elkholi, Huda Althobiti, Jamal Al Nofeye, Mohamed Hasan, Ahmed Ibrahim
• Electronic application to improve management of infections in low-income neonatal units: pilot implementation of the NeoTree beta app in a public sector hospital in Zimbabwe (20 January, 2021)

  Hannah Gannon, Simbarashe Chimhuya, Gwendoline Chimhini, Samuel R Neal, Liam P Shaw, Caroline Crehan, Tim Hull-Bailey, Rashida A Ferrand, Nigel Klein, Michael Sharland, Mario Cortina Borja, Valerie Robertson, Michelle Heys, Felicity C Fitzgerald
• Improving the neonatal team handoff process in a level IV NICU: reducing interruptions and handoff duration (20 January, 2021)

  Vilmaris Quinones Cardona, Alison LaBadie, David B Cooperberg, Alan Zubrow, Suzanne M Touch
• Writing’s on the wall: improving the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist (15 January, 2021)

  Claire Cushley, Tom Knight, Helen Murray, Lawrence Kidd
• Non-Obstetric Safety of Epidurals (NOSE) (15 January, 2021)

  Fabian Alexander Blyth Cook, Emma Millar, Flora Mclennan, Marc Janssens, Catherine Stretton
• Improving the quality of blood pressure measurements in an outpatient diabetes clinic (12 January, 2021)

  Jennifer J Iyengar, Matthew Johnson, Shafaq Khairi, Jessica E Fennelly, Jennifer Wyckoff
• Improving SCD compliance in trauma patients at Kings County Hospital Center: a quality improvement report (8 January, 2021)

  Safraz Hamid, Benjamin Gallo Marin, Leanna Smith, Kwasi Agyeman-Kagya, Christopher George, Tara Wetzler, Abbasali Badami, Adam Gendy, Valery Roudnitsky
• Reducing unnecessary CT scan of the head for minor paediatric head injuries at the emergency department (7 January, 2021)

  Amr Elmoheen, Waleed Salem, Khalid Bashir
• Taking prevention to the next step: implementation of a brief, sustainable frailty assessment in a cardiology clinic (6 January, 2021)

  Ariela R Orkaby, Kirstyn James, Jessica Leuchtenburg, Esther Solooki, J Michael Gaziano, Jane A Driver
• Empower to connect and connect to empower: experience in using a humanistic approach to improve patients’ access to, and experience of, care in isolation wards during the COVID-19 outbreak in Singapore (6 January, 2021)

  Natalie Liling Woong, Victoria Sze Min Ekstrom, Xiaohui Xin, Crystal Lim, Evelyn Swee Kim Boon, Shaun Wei Jie Teo, Patrick Chee Sang Ng, Tricia Pei Shin Ang, Shu Hui Lim, Amanda Yun Rui Lam, Esther Monica Peijin Fan, Shin Yuh Ang, Wan Cheng Chow