Table of contents

Quality improvement report

• Team approach to fall reduction in paediatric ward of national referral hospital, Thimphu, Bhutan: a quality improvement initiative (29 September, 2022)

  Kalpana Chhetri, Ugyen Rinchen, Gitanjali Lamichaney, Bhutan Kinley, Sangay Dorji
• Doing today’s work today: real-time data recording and rolling audit in an IVF clinic (28 September, 2022)

  Lucy Wood, Nathan Proudlove
• ‘Every patient, every day’: a daily ward round tool to improve patient safety and experience (28 September, 2022)

  Judith Johnston, John Stephenson, Anu Rajgopal, Neeraj Bhasin
• Improving epinephrine autoinjector usability and carriage frequency among patients at risk of anaphylaxis: a quality improvement initiative (23 September, 2022)

  Ahdad Ziyar, Jimmy Kwon, Arthur Li, Asal Naderi, Tiffany Jean
• Simple signature/countersignature shared-accountability quality improvement initiative to improve reliability of blood sample collection: an essential clinical task (21 September, 2022)

  Chenwei Wu, Chatty O'Keeffe, Jesse Sanford, Jean Hagel, Shelia Childs, Gary Evers, Julie Melbourne, Collyn West, Michael Koch, Paul B Cornia
• Reducing time to admission in emergency department patients: a cross-functional quality improvement project (19 September, 2022)

  Bryan Imhoff, Kenneth Marshall, Niaman Nazir, Aroop Pal, Melissa Parkhurst
• From ‘pain management’ to ‘integrated health clinic’: a quality improvement project to transition patients on chronic opioid therapy to more evidence-based therapies for chronic pain (19 September, 2022)

  Elena S Hill, Doug Reich, Eniola Ayeni
• Increasing statin prescription rates to prevent cardiovascular disease among high-risk populations: a quality improvement intervention centred on a novel interactive tool (16 September, 2022)

  Sana Rashid, Giselle Alexandra Suero-Abreu, Maciej Tysarowski, Hyo-bin Um, Kajol Shah, Yawen Zhang, Analise Douglas, Daniel Matassa
• Improving access to Hackney Integrated Learning Disability Service (1 September, 2022)

  Osama Omrani, Jessica Spiers, David Prior, Kirsty Haberland, Anwar Kabir, Candace Sinclair, Tom Woods, Ian Hall, Laura Checkley
• Greenhouse gas reduction in anaesthesia practice: a departmental environmental strategy (24 August, 2022)

  Kerstin Wyssusek, Ka Lo Chan, Gerard Eames, Yasmin Whately
• Improving patient understanding on discharge from the short stay unit: an integrated human factors and quality improvement approach (23 August, 2022)

  Jenna Lauren Elizabeth Cook, Evie Fioratou, Peter Davey, Lynn Urquhart
• Implementation of a chest injury pathway in the emergency department (19 August, 2022)

  Claudio Dalla Vecchia, Cian McDermott, Francis O'Keeffe, Vinny Ramiah, Tomas Breslin
• National quality improvement intervention to reduce high risk oral methotrexate prescribing (12 August, 2022)

  James Innes, Tony Jamieson, Ruth Dales, Robert Lloyd
• Improving viral load utilisation to enhance care for Kenyan adolescents with HIV (10 August, 2022)

  Gillian Dougherty, Steve Akoth, Mark Hawken, Isaac Leting, Redempta Mutei, Catherine Ngugi, Doris Naitore, Fatima Tsiouris, Anne Wakoli, Lauren Walker, Miriam Rabkin
• Perinatal excellence to reduce injury in preterm birth (PERIPrem) through quality improvement (9 August, 2022)

  Alessandra Glover Williams, Sam Tuvey, Hayley McBain, Noshin Menzies, Sally Hedge, Sarah Bates, Karen Luyt
• Quality improvement initiative: how the setting up of an anaesthesia consultant-led perioperative outreach service addressed anaesthesia-specific issues to improve anaesthesia consult and surgery timings for hip fracture patients (8 August, 2022)

  Wei Shyan Siow, Leeanna Tay, Chou Liang Mah
• Quality improvement initiative to improve infant safe sleep practices in the newborn nursery (3 August, 2022)

  Sophie Kay Shaikh, Lauren Chamberlain, Kristina Marie Nazareth-Pidgeon, Joel C Boggan
• Transitional care innovation for Medicaid-insured individuals: early findings (18 August, 2022)

  J Margo Brooks Carthon, Heather Brom, Rachel French, Marguerite Daus, Marsha Grantham-Murillo, Jovan Bennett, Kira Ryskina, Eileen Ponietowicz, Pamela Cacchione
• Improving the annual monitoring rates of testosterone replacement therapy patients in primary care (1 August, 2022)

  Omar Hassoun, Matt Starostka, Heather Shearer, Angela Millar, Salman Hassoun, Chris Isles
• Impact of a prescriber and patient educational intervention on discharge analgesia prescribing and hospital readmission rates following elective unilateral total hip and knee arthroplasty (1 August, 2022)

  Daniel Wood, Shuh Fen Moy, Shiran Zhang, Nicholas Lightfoot
• Novel solutions to old problems: improving the reliability of emergency equipment provision in critical care using accessible digital solutions (29 July, 2022)

  Christopher Mark Hunter, Daniel Paul, Benjamin Plumb
• Improving heart failure care and guideline-directed medical therapy through proactive remote patient monitoring-home telehealth and pharmacy integration (28 July, 2022)

  Kimberly A Lynch, David A Ganz, Debra Saliba, Donald S Chang, Shelly S de Peralta
• Getting going on time: reducing neurophysiology set-up times in order to contribute to improving surgery start and finish times (21 July, 2022)

  Michael Pridgeon, Nathan Proudlove
• Design and implementation of a novel patient-centered empowerment approach for pain optimisation in children undergoing major surgery (19 July, 2022)

  Vidya Chidambaran, Blair Simpson, Laura Brower, Rachel Hanke, Marc Mecoli, Blake Lane, Sara Williams, Emily McKenna, Christina Bates, Aimee Kraemer, Peter Sturm, Rebeccah Brown, Linda Dunseath, Craig Vogel, Victor Garcia
• Improving compliance with appropriateness of testing for heparin-induced thrombocytopaenia: a quality improvement report (12 July, 2022)

  Meric Mericliler, Vera Kazakova, Diala Nicolas, Utkarsh H Acharya, Bertrand L Jaber
• Gift of time: learning together to embed a palliative approach to care in long-term care (5 July, 2022)

  Diana Sarakbi, Elan Graves, Gillian King, Jane Webley, Shelly Crick, Christine Quinn