Table of contents

Quality improvement report

• Catheter-associated urinary tract infection reduction in critical care units: a bundled care model (23 December, 2021)

  Stephanie Grana Van Decker, Nicholas Bosch, Jaime Murphy
• Implementation of treatment escalation plans in an old age psychiatry inpatient hospital (20 December, 2021)

  Anne Y T Chua, Adnaan Ghanchi, Sangeeta K Makh, Jessica Grayston, Stephen J Woolford, Sahan Wijayaweera, Victoria Osman-Hicks, Harnish P Patel, Jay Amin
• Chameleon project: a children’s end-of-life care quality improvement project (20 December, 2021)

  Toni Wolff, Caroline Dorsett, Alexander Connolly, Nicola Kelly, Jennifer Turnbull, Anjum Deorukhkar, Helena Clements, Hayley Griffin, Anjana Chhaochharia, Sarah Haynes, Kerry Webb, Joseph C Manning
• Focused educational intervention improves intern knowledge of perioperative patient blood management principles (20 December, 2021)

  Kerstin Wyssusek, Kate Taylor, Sandra Concha-Blamey
• A feed-centric hypoglycaemia pathway ensures appropriate care escalation in at-risk infants (17 December, 2021)

  Suresh Chandran, Jia Xuan Siew, Victor Samuel Rajadurai, Rachel Wei Shan Lim, Mei Chien Chua, Fabian Yap
• Increasing oxygen prescribing during the COVID-19 pandemic (13 December, 2021)

  Ramandeep Sahota, Lukasz Kamieniarz
• Increasing use of an endotracheal intubation safety checklist in the emergency department (9 December, 2021)

  Cameron William Whytock, Matthew Stephen Atkinson
• Impact of a multifaceted and multidisciplinary intervention on pain, agitation and delirium management in an intensive care unit: an experience of a Canadian community hospital in conducting a quality improvement project (9 December, 2021)

  Zechen Ma, Mercedes Camargo Penuela, Madelyn Law, Divya Joshi, Han-Oh Chung, Joyce Nga Hei Lam, Jennifer LY Tsang
• Nurse-run preanaesthesia assessment clinics: an initiative towards improving the quality of perioperative care at the ambulatory care centre (7 December, 2021)

  Neethu Arun, Khalid Mohammed Ahmed Al-Jaham, Saadiya Ahmad Alhebail, Mohammad Jamal Abdallah Hassan, Refa Hanish Bakhit, Johncy Paulose, Marco AE Marcus, Balakrishnan Ramachandran, Marcus D Lance
• Collaborative Heart Attack Management Program (CHAMP): use of prehospital thrombolytics to improve timeliness of STEMI management in British Columbia (6 December, 2021)

  Andrew Guy, Nicki Gabers, Chase Crisfield, Jennie Helmer, Shaylee C Peterson, Anders Ganstal, Caryl Harper, Ross Gibson, Sumandeep Dhesi
• Using Lean tools to improve the efficiency of awake fibreoptic intubation setup (3 December, 2021)

  Wade A Weigel, Andrew B Lyons, Justin S Liberman, C Craig Blackmore
• Clinical benefits of a combined physician associate and senior specialist-led emergency surgery ambulatory emergency care clinic introduced in response to the COVID-19 pandemic (30 November, 2021)

  Marie Alexandra Edison, Bethan Waskett, Daniel Adekitan, Nebil Behar
• Learning from Lean: a quality improvement project using a Lean-based improvement approach to improve discharge for patients with frailty in an acute care hospital (25 November, 2021)

  Thomas James Rollinson, Joy Furnival, Sarah Goldberg, Aklak Choudhury
• Time for change in practice of in-patient oxygen therapy: a period-limited, multidimensional approach to improve oxygen prescription compliance: quality improvement project at Hamad General Hospital, Qatar (23 November, 2021)

  Samman Rose, Sundus Sardar, Sreethish Sasi, Dabia Hamad S H Al Mohanadi, Ahmed Ali A A Al-Mohammed, Muhammad Zahid
• Rationalising requests for preoperative sleep studies and postoperative HDU beds: a quality improvement project in paediatric ENT patients undergoing elective surgery (18 November, 2021)

  Simon Morris, Rhodri Jones, Paramesh Mankunda Puttasiddaiah, Michael Eales, Heikki Whittet
• Improving the quality of weekend medical handover on non-receiving medical hospital wards (17 November, 2021)

  Ruairidh Nicoll, Mark White, Luis Loureiro Harrison, Ruth LM Cordiner, Malcolm Daniel, Brian Choo-Kang, James G Boyle
• Quality improvement project to decrease unnecessary investigations in infants with bronchiolitis in Cork University Hospital (15 November, 2021)

  Lizeri Jansen, Gideon-Phil Meyer, Glenn Curtin, Bryan Lynch, Rory O’Brien
• Supplementing hand washing with proper use of alcoholic hand rub in a special neonatal care unit in a large academic public health institute at Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, India (10 November, 2021)

  Mahtab Singh, Avyact Agrawal, Deepti Sisodia, Pardeep Kumar Kasar, Arvinder Kaur, Vikram Datta, Ravi Shankar Savanna, Manish Singh, Nigel Livesley
• Early prescribing outcomes after exporting the EQUIPPED medication safety improvement programme (8 November, 2021)

  Camille P Vaughan, Ula Hwang, Ann E Vandenberg, Traci Leong, Daniel Wu, Melissa B Stevens, Carolyn Clevenger, Stephanie Eucker, Nick Genes, Wennie Huang, Edidiong Ikpe-Ekpo, Denise Nassisi, Laura Previl, Sandra Rodriguez, Martine Sanon, David Schlientz, Debbie Vigliotti, S Nicole Hastings
• Surgical safety checklist audits may be misleading! Improving the implementation and adherence of the surgical safety checklist: a quality improvement project (3 November, 2021)

  Brigid Brown, Sophia Bermingham, Marthinus Vermeulen, Beth Jennings, Kirsty Adamek, Mark Markou, Jane E Bassham, Peter Hibbert
• Novel two-tiered developmental screening programme for Singaporean toddlers: a quality improvement report (28 October, 2021)

  Nwe Nwe Linn Oo, David Chee Chin Ng, Truls Ostbye, John Carson Allen, Pratibha Keshav Agarwal, Sita Padmini Yeleswarapu, Shu-Ling Chong, Xiaoxuan Guo, Yoke Hwee Chan
• Summarised, verified and accessible: improving clinical information management for potential haematopoietic stem cell transplantation patients (22 October, 2021)

  Felicity May, Jennifer Pepperall, Elaine Davies, Sarah Dyer, Nathan Proudlove, Margaret Tracey Rees
• Introduction of an enhanced recovery programme for total shoulder arthroplasty: report of a novel pathway (20 October, 2021)

  Marie L Morgan, Gareth R Davies-Jones, Edward F Ibrahim, Simon J Booker, Marcus Bateman, Amol A Tambe, David I Clark
• Flip the Triangle: using quality improvement methods to embed a positive behaviour support approach on a medium secure forensic ward for men with intellectual disabilities (19 October, 2021)

  Charlotte Whittle, George Chingosho, Kate Parker, Manaal Jama, Sidrah Babar, Day Njovana, Amar Shah
• SARS-CoV-2 driving rapid change in adult cystic fibrosis services: the role of the clinical nurse specialist (12 October, 2021)

  Rachel Dunk, Susan Madge
• Improving adherence to hepatitis B vaccine administration recommendations in two newborn nurseries (4 October, 2021)

  Sarah Germana, Govind Krishnan, Matthew McCulloch, Jane Trinh, Sophie Shaikh