Table of contents

Quality improvement report

• One chance to get it right: improving clinical handovers for better symptom control at the end of life (29 September, 2021)

  Gabriel Goldraij, Vilma Adriana Tripodoro, Melisa Aloisio, Sandra Analía Castro, Christina Gerlach, Catriona Rachel Mayland, Dagny Faksvåg Haugen
• Using lean management approach in improving clinical team leader handover process: nursing services (29 September, 2021)

  Lina Mohammed Obaid, Ahmad Al Baker, Jessalie Ann Husain, Gretchen Cabania, Sherryl Roque
• Improving hospital flow ‘Ensiab Project’ (28 September, 2021)

  Yasser Alotaibi, Noura Alnowaiser, Ahmed Alamry
• Exploration of a quality improvement process to standardised preoperative tests for a surgical procedure to reduce waste (27 September, 2021)

  Rabia Shahid, Malone Chaya, Ian Lutz, Brian Taylor, Lily Xiao, Gary Groot
• COVID-19 and maternity care in South East London: shared working and learning initiative (27 September, 2021)

  Emily Steward, Jacqui Kempen, Caroline Wright, Carol Postlethwaite, Monica Franklin, Laura Onwubalili, Aisha Hameed, Sadia Bhatti, Oladimeji Olowu, Daghni Rajasingam, Anita Banerjee
• Improving communication on medical ward rounds with patients who speak limited English with implementation of medical communication charts (24 September, 2021)

  Amrita Naomi D'Souza, Ana Canoso, Laura-Jane Smith
• Improving stroke care in Nova Scotia, Canada: a population-based project spanning 14 years (24 September, 2021)

  Stephen James Phillips, Allison Stevens, Huiling Cao, Wendy Simpkin, Jennifer Payne, Neala Gill
• Improving documentation of prescriptions for as-required medications in hospital inpatients (20 September, 2021)

  Samantha Leigh Ross, Yeshi Bhushan, Peter Davey, Suzanne Grant
• Multidisciplinary, early mobility approach to enhance functional independence in patients admitted to a cardiothoracic intensive care unit: a quality improvement programme (17 September, 2021)

  Prasobh Jacob, Poonam Gupta, Shiny Shiju, Amr Salah Omar, Syed Ansari, Gigi Mathew, Miki Varghese, Jinsograce Pulimoottil, Sumi Varkey, Menandro Mahinay, Darlene Jesus, Praveen Surendran
• Increasing the uptake of cervical screening at cornerstone medical practice (15 September, 2021)

  Adeola Oyegbite, Jessica Roberts, Joanna Bircher
• Empowering patients: simplifying discharge instructions (14 September, 2021)

  Charisma DeSai, Keri Janowiak, Beatrice Secheli, Eleanor Phelps, Sam McDonald, Gary Reed, Andra Blomkalns
• Improving turnaround times for HLA-B*27 and HLA-B*57:01 gene testing: a Barts Health NHS Trust quality improvement project (13 September, 2021)

  Emma White, Nathan Proudlove, Delordson Kallon
• Implementation and 1-year follow-up of the cardiovascular ICU standardised handover (13 September, 2021)

  Monica Lupei, Nishkruti Munshi, Alexander M Kaizer, Luke Patten, Joyce Wahr
• Mass production methods for mass vaccination: improving flow and operational performance in a COVID-19 mass vaccination centre using Lean (12 September, 2021)

  Iain M Smith, David T L Smith
• Impact of providing patient information leaflets prior to hospital discharge to patients with acute kidney injury: a quality improvement project (3 September, 2021)

  Becky Bonfield
• Therapeutic duplication on the general surgical wards (2 September, 2021)

  Isabelle Huynh, Tania Rajendran
• Acute hospital preoperative assessment redesign: streamlining the patient pathway and reducing on-the-day surgery cancellations (2 September, 2021)

  Debbie Brazil, Charlotte Moss, Karen Blinko
• Reducing surgical cancellations: a successful application of Lean Six Sigma in healthcare (30 August, 2021)

  Stijn Schretlen, Paulien Hoefsmit, Suzanne Kats, Godefridus van Merode, Jos Maessen, Reinier Zandbergen
• Home spirometry utilisation in telemedicine clinic for cystic fibrosis care during COVID-19 pandemic: a quality improvement process (25 August, 2021)

  Martina Compton, Rhonda List, Elissa Starheim, Lindsay Somerville, Lauren Williamson, Rachel Murray, Deirdre Jennings, Heather Bruschwein, Dana Albon
• Improving physician compliance with mammography screening by implementing a breast cancer screening guideline at a hospital in Bahrain (25 August, 2021)

  Rabih Mustapha Abou leila, Michael Shannon, Sarah El-Nassir El-Nigoumi
• Improving medical residents’ utilisation of integrated mental health in primary care (24 August, 2021)

  Jenna Palladino, Deirdra Frum-Vassallo, Joanne D Taylor, Victoria L Webb
• Education and training as key drivers for improving the quality of fluid balance charts: findings from a quality improvement project (20 August, 2021)

  Alpha Madu, Harshini Asogan, Ajmal Raoof
• Reducing potentially avoidable tasks in a hyperacute stroke unit (12 August, 2021)

  Derya Tireli, Michael Broksgaard Jensen
• Strategies to reduce the caesarean section rate in a private hospital and their impact (12 August, 2021)

  Romulo Negrini, Izabella Mikaella Souza Campos D’Albuquerque, Rita de Cássia Sanchez e Oliveira, Raquel Domingues da Silva Ferreira, Luciana Francine Bocchi De Stefani, Sergio Podgaec
• Implementation of a provincial acute stroke pathway and its impact on access to advanced stroke care in Saskatchewan (12 August, 2021)

  Jessalyn K Holodinsky, Vivian N Onaemo, Ruth Whelan, Gary Hunter, Brett R Graham, Jessica Hamilton, Laura Schwartz, Lori Latta, Lissa Peeling, Michael E Kelly
• Improving lung function in adolescents with CF by tracking annual rate of lung function decline (12 August, 2021)

  Sydney Schiff, Miah Starks, Rachel W Linnemann
• Implementing screening for social determinants of health using the Core 5 screening tool (10 August, 2021)

  Alison Bradywood, Treasa "Susie" Leming-Lee, Richard Watters, Craig Blackmore
• Navigating the shifting sands of filtering facepiece respirator provision during the COVID-19 pandemic: a system response for maximising staff safety (10 August, 2021)

  Carrick Allison, Mike Tennant, Peter Xiang, Jennifer Stephens, Oliver Ball, Niall Wilton
• Constructing high-quality rest facilities to maximise performance and ensure patient safety (23 July, 2021)

  Geeth Silva, Aiken Yam, Jessica Court, Rabia Imtiaz, Cath Chisholm
• Increasing the use of multimodal analgesia during adult surgery in a tertiary academic anaesthesia department (19 July, 2021)

  Andrea V Olmos, Sasha Steen, Christy K Boscardin, Joyce M Chang, Genevieve Manahan, Anthony R Little, Man-Cheung Lee, Linda L Liu
• Junior doctor-led quality improvement project to improve safety and visibility of an interspecialty referral system (13 July, 2021)

  Dowan Kwon, Won Young Moon, Michelle Akhunbay-Fudge, Brandon Pieters, Jeni Pillai, Charlie Wilson, Jo Morrison
• The Standardisation of handoffs in a large academic paediatric emergency department using I-PASS (9 July, 2021)

  Melissa Sydow Chladek, Cara Doughty, Binita Patel, Kyetta Alade, Marideth Rus, Joan Shook, Kim LIttle-Weinert
• Making every drop count: reducing wastage of a novel blood component for transfusion of trauma patients (8 July, 2021)

  Josephine McCullagh, Nathan Proudlove, Harriet Tucker, Jane Davies, Dave Edmondson, Julia Lancut, Angela Maddison, Anne Weaver, Ross Davenport, Laura Green
• Operations management on the front line of COVID-19 vaccination: building capability at scale via technology-enhanced learning (8 July, 2021)

  Iain M Smith, Elaine Bayliss, Hollie Salisbury, Ali Wheeler
• Does admission order form design really matter? A reduction in urea blood test ordering (1 July, 2021)

  Pamela Mathura, Cole Boettger, Reidar Hagtvedt, Yvonne Suranyi, Narmin Kassam
• Operationalising outpatient antimicrobial stewardship to reduce system-wide antibiotics for acute bronchitis (1 July, 2021)

  Morgan Clouse Johnson, Todd Hulgan, Robin G Cooke, Ruth Kleinpell, Christianne Roumie, Carol Callaway-Lane, Lauren D Mitchell, Jacob Hathaway, Robert Dittus, Milner Staub