Table of contents

Quality improvement report

• Optimisation of postoperative X-ray acquisition for orthopaedic patients (30 March, 2022)

  Sandip Singh Saggi, Le Zhi Dexter Kuah, Lee Chuen April Toh, Mohammad Taufik bin Mohammad Shah, Merng Koon Wong, Hamid Rahmatullah Bin Abd Razak
• Improving participation and engagement with a COVID-19 surveillance programme in an outpatient setting (28 March, 2022)

  Callum Wemyss, Simon Hobson, Jill Sweeney, Pei Rong Chua, Siti Aishah Binti Mohd Khairi, Maura Edwards, Jacqueline Burns, Niall McGoldrick, Raymond Braid, Megan Gorman, Suzanne Redmond, Claire Clark, Clare Brown, Chris Watling, David I Conway, Shauna Culshaw
• Improving ondansetron use and oral rehydration instructions for pediatric acute gastroenteritis (28 March, 2022)

  Perseus Vistasp Patel, Thomas Wallach, Glenn Rosenbluth, Mel Heyman, Sofia Verstraete
• COVID-19 Oximetry @home: evaluation of patient outcomes (28 March, 2022)

  Michael Boniface, Daniel Burns, Christopher Duckworth, Mazen Ahmed, Franklin Duruiheoma, Htwe Armitage, Naomi Ratcliffe, John Duffy, Caroline O’Keeffe, Matt Inada-Kim
• Catalan experience of deadoption of low-value practices in primary care (24 March, 2022)

  Cari Almazán, Johanna Milena Caro-Mendivelso, Montse Mias, Leslie Barrionuevo-Rosas, Montse Moharra, Marie-Pierre Gagnon
• Using human factors and ergonomics principles to prevent inpatient falls (23 March, 2022)

  Yick-ting Kwok, Ming-sang Lam
• Rapid implementation of an outpatient arthroplasty care pathway: a COVID-19-driven quality improvement initiative (22 March, 2022)

  Sharon Peacock, Jesse Wolfstadt, Miki Peer, Yehoshua Gleicher
• Improving the care of patients with COVID-19 with a medical student-run telemedicine clinic (18 March, 2022)

  Isabel Wees, Mohammad Imran Murtuza, Danielle Mathisen, Helena Zhang, Mathews Roy, Eleanor Phelps, Gary Reed
• Transforming the 2-week wait (2WW) pathway: management of breast pain in primary care (14 March, 2022)

  Mohamed Jahan, Thilan Bartholomeuz, Nikki Milburn, Veronica Rogers, Mark Sibbering, John Robertson
• Increasing the uptake in a general practice prostate cancer screening programme (10 March, 2022)

  Neil Limaye, Daniele Zorzato, Aaruran Nadarajasundaram, Sabrina B Y Ong
• Reducing laboratory costs through rational testing in suspected pre-eclampsia (10 March, 2022)

  Adam Daniel Jakes, Marsha Cox, Simon Drane, Antoinette Johnson
• Improving the handover process in a psychiatry liaison setting (9 March, 2022)

  Kirtana Vallabhaneni, Jemma Hazan, Lucinda Donaldson, Fredrik Johansson
• Delayed antibiotic prescribing to reduce antibiotic use: an urgent care practice change (9 March, 2022)

  Shera Tonazzi, Leanne Prenovost, Suzette Scheuermann
• Inpatient pharmacists using a readmission risk model in supporting discharge medication reconciliation to reduce unplanned hospital readmissions: a quality improvement intervention (3 March, 2022)

  David Gallagher, Maegan Greenland, Desirae Lindquist, Lisa Sadolf, Casey Scully, Kristian Knutsen, Congwen Zhao, Benjamin A Goldstein, Lindsey Burgess
• Improving appropriate imaging for non-specific low back pain (21 February, 2022)

  Eyad Al-hihi, Cheryl Gibson, Jaehoon Lee, Rebecca R Mount, Neville Irani, Caylin McGowan
• Golden opportunity for intervention? Identifying vitamin D deficiency in patients with substance use disorders in hospital (14 February, 2022)

  E Naomi Smith, Siobhan Gee, Gerri O’Brien, Pitchy-Ann Vicente, Rosemary Griffith, Rina Patel, Joshua Stapleton, Emily Finch, Naina Shah, Fiona Gaughran, David Taylor, John Strang, Nicola J Kalk
• Applying Lean principles to create a high throughput mass COVID-19 vaccination site (7 February, 2022)

  Meghan N Froman, Matthew P Walser, Michael Lauzardo, Mark Graban, Frederick S Southwick
• ‘Where is the ECG machine?’: a quality improvement project using WhatsApp to improve the efficiency in locating shared medical devices in an inpatient unit

  (7 February, 2022)

  Adnan Ali, Haroon Khan, Vicki Tully
• Atrial fibrillation detection using a automated electrocardiographic monitoring in a transient ischaemic attack service (2 February, 2022)

  Lucio D'Anna, Oishi Sikdar, Suyin Lim, Dheeraj Kalladka, Soma Banerjee
• Improving delivery of low tidal volume ventilation in 10 ICUs (1 February, 2022)

  Chenell Donadee, Mark Cohen-Melamed, Edgar Delgado, Scott R Gunn
• System approach to prevent lost studies and improve radiology report turnaround time (31 January, 2022)

  Jacob Schick, Jonelle M Petscavage-Thomas
• Improving annual albuminuria testing for individuals with diabetes (31 January, 2022)

  Sharon Kam, Santiago Angaramo, Jacqueline Antoun, Manasa R Bhatta, Pauleatha Diggs Bonds, Adrian G Cadar, Valentine U Chukwuma, Patrick J Donegan, Zachary Feldman, Alan Z Grusky, Veerain K Gupta, Jeremy B Hatcher, Jaclyn Lee, Natalia G Morales, Erin N Vrana, Bronson C Wessinger, Michael Z Zhang, Michael J Fowler, Chase D Hendrickson
• Improving paediatric flow in an UK Paediatric Assessment Unit (27 January, 2022)

  Danning Li, Movin Abeywickrema, Sharvari Vadeyar, Abigail Ward, Thomas Abberton, Justina Rweyemamu
• Improving the supply of critical medicines from pharmacy to reduce the delay in medicines administration on wards (27 January, 2022)

  Vitesh Patel, Gemma Quinn
• Rapid introduction of virtual consultation in a hospital-based Consultant-led Antenatal Clinic to minimise exposure of pregnant women to COVID-19 (13 January, 2022)

  Christina Rose Tavener, Christopher Kyriacou, Imene Elmascri, Amy Cruickshank, Sabrina Das
• Implementation of a rapid response system at an isolated radiotherapy facility through simulation training (11 January, 2022)

  Hidemasa Kawamura, Yasuhiro Komatsu, Kazumi Tanaka, Masafumi Kanamoto, Masaru Tobe, Chisato Usami, Hiroshi Hinohara, Kiyohiro Oshima, Yoko Kitada, Kazuhisa Tsuda, Tomoaki Ogano, Hirofumi Shimada, Tatsuya Ohno
• Quality improvement project to improve patient outcomes by reducing door to CT and door to needle time and increasing appropriate referrals for endovascular thrombectomy. (11 January, 2022)

  Jennifer Hennebry, Sinead Stoneman, Breda Jones, Nicola Bambrick, Andreea Stroiescu, Ian Crosbie, Riona Mulcahy
• Use of protocol-driven medication refills by pharmacists decreases rheumatologist in-basket work and improves rheumatologist satisfaction (10 January, 2022)

  Eva I Rottmann, Jonida Cote, Swana Thomas, Dante M Grassi, Joseph Chronowski, Lisa L Schroeder, David Pugliese, Eric Newman
• Safe preoperative regional nerve blocks (10 January, 2022)

  Joseph Christopher Arbizo, Kajal Dalal, Veronia Lao, Frank Rosinia, Temiloluwa Adejuyigbe
• Establishing an alternative accommodation for stable hospitalised antepartum patients: barriers and challenges (6 January, 2022)

  M Brad Sullivan, Abby Rentz, Pamela Mathura, Megan Gleddie, Tania Luthra, Allison T Thiele, Katharina Kovacs Burns, Rebecca Rich, Winnie W Sia
• How To Hospital: barriers to developing a patient ‘Hospital Survival Guide’ to support information transfer during ward-rounds on the patient journey from admission to hospital to discharge (4 January, 2022)

  Swyn Lewis, Gwenlli Mai Jones, Paul Barach, Hawys Tomos, Mari Davies, Buddug Eckley, Hannah Rebecca Dowell, Christian Peter Subbe