Table of contents

Quality improvement report

• Clinical spotlight intervention to accelerate translation of evidence-based practices in primary care (29 December, 2022)

  Kavita Chawla, Richard Furlong, Norris Kamo, Ingrid Gerbino, Donna Smith, Craig Blackmore
• Improving use of proton pump inhibitors with dual antiplatelet therapy in patients admitted with acute coronary syndrome (23 December, 2022)

  Tomilola Jinadu, Ashwin Radhakrishnan, Lampson Fan
• Turn that frown upside down: implementation of a visual cue improves communication during emergency department to inpatient hand-offs (21 December, 2022)

  Beech Burns, James Heilman, Shana Kusin, Laura Chess, Mary Elizabeth Tanski
• Improving the utilisation of medication-assisted treatment for alcohol use disorder at discharge (12 December, 2022)

  Luther Arms, Hershan Johl, Jeremy DeMartini
• Development of a dysphagia cup to improve patients’ fluid intake and reduce caregiver burden (8 December, 2022)

  Sophie Su Hui Khoo, Sheila Arroyo, Yan Qing Lee, Xiao Jia Chew, Fuyin Li, Savithri Sinnatamby, Allan Boon Teck Koa, Si Ching Lim
• Implementation of systematic safety checklists in a neurocritical care unit: a quality improvement study (8 December, 2022)

  César E Escamilla-Ocañas, Gabriel Torrealba-Acosta, Pitchaiah Mandava, Muhammad Suhaib Qasim, Bárbara Gutiérrez-Flores, Eric Bershad, Mohammad Hirzallah, Chethan P Venkatasubba Rao, Rahul Damani
• How do we measure organisational wellness? Development of a comprehensive patient-centred and employee-centred visual analytical solution (5 December, 2022)

  Scott Christopher Watkins, Christine Hammerschmidt, Geoffrey M Gray, Angela Green, Anna Varughese, Luis Ahumada
• Applying a knowledge translation framework for triaging low back pain and radicular pain at an emergency department: an iterative process within an uncontrolled before-and-after design (5 December, 2022)

  Sanne Peters, Karel Jacobs, Peter Van Wambeke, Sofie Rummens, Sebastiaan Schelfaut, Lieven Moke, Joost Dejaegher, Ann Spriet, Anne-lies Van den Broeck, Johan Vliers, Bart Depreitere
• Prospective application of the interdisciplinary bedside rounding checklist ‘TEMP’ is associated with reduced infections and length of hospital stay (5 December, 2022)

  Nila S Radhakrishnan, Kiran Lukose, Richard Cartwright, Andressa Sleiman, Nicholas Matey, Duke Lim, Tiffany LeGault, Sapheria Pollard, Nicole Gravina, Frederick S Southwick
• Evaluating a novel, integrative dashboard for health professionals’ performance in managing deteriorating patients: a quality improvement project

  (5 December, 2022)

  Baneen Alhmoud, Daniel Melley, Nadeem Khan, Timothy Bonicci, Riyaz Patel, Amitava Banerjee
• Use of quality improvement methodology to improve care of women with hypertensive disease in pregnancy and haemorrhage in Yemen (low-income, high-insecurity setting) (5 December, 2022)

  Sabrina Das, Emtiaz Abdulwahid, Audrey Moisan, Anna Kathrina De Jesus
• Improving detection of undiagnosed HIV through routine screening in a central London emergency department (5 December, 2022)

  Matilda Fox, Rosie Pettit, Ernest Mutengesa, Alice Harper, Maria Nakhoul, Anu Mitra
• Improving documentation of anticoagulation and antiplatelet recommendations after outpatient endoscopy (5 December, 2022)

  Brendon O'Connell, Amanda Boyd, Darshan Kothari, Neena Miller, Jennifer Cornejo, Brian Sullivan
• Stopping routine urine screening studies for stroke rehabilitation inpatient admissions (23 November, 2022)

  Arjun Singh Ghuman, Pamela Mathura, Jaime C Yu
• Quality improvement project to improve the standardisation and efficiency of occupational therapy initial contact and assessment within a mental health inpatient service (21 November, 2022)

  Joshua Jesudunsin Ige, David Fancis Hunt
• Safe prevention of Clostridium difficile using infectious disease guidelines at an urban hospital in North Carolina

  (21 November, 2022)

  Eileen Davies, Diana Jolles
• Transitioning EPMA applications in a large multisite teaching hospital (18 November, 2022)

  Geeth Silva, Graeme Hall, Aaron Vogel, Tim Bourne, Gang Xu
• Implementation and outcomes of a system-wide women’s health ‘team goal’ to reduce maternal morbidity for black women: a prospective quality improvement study (16 November, 2022)

  Rebecca Feldman Hamm, Elizabeth Howell, Abike James, Robert Faizon, Tina Bloemer, Jennifer Cohen, Sindhu K Srinivas
• Collaborative improvement project to decrease maternal mortality rate across five hospitals in Saudi Arabia (14 November, 2022)

  Mohamed Nassif, Teresa Bissen, Yasser K Alotaibi, Noura Alnowaiser, Ahmed Alzahrani, Mawahib Wang
• Improving ICSI success rates following root cause analysis and use of system behaviour charts: the devil is in the detail! (9 November, 2022)

  Emma Woodland, Michael Carroll
• Improvement of pregnancy counselling and contraception counselling and documentation in a single rheumatology academic practice: a quality improvement project (4 November, 2022)

  Taylor Wolfgang, Sarah Anstett, Senada Arabelovic
• AWHONN postpartum discharge education: patient knowledge and sustainability (4 November, 2022)

  Samantha de los Reyes, Dana Al-Khaled, Katherine Brito, Manizha Kholmatov, Brianna Farley, Melissa Kuriloff, Gayle Stamos, David Victorson, Beth Plunkett
• Addressing childcare as a barrier to healthcare access through community partnerships in a large public health system (19 October, 2022)

  Kristin S Alvarez, Kavita Bhavan, Sheryl Mathew, Courtney Johnson, Amy McCarthy, Blanca Garcia, Marilyn Callies, Kelly Stovall, Michael Harms, Kimberly A Kho
• HCAHPS: having constant communication augments hospital and patient satisfaction (17 October, 2022)

  Raghu Tiperneni, Shailee Patel, Farah Heis, Samara Ghali, Doantrang Du, Wael Ghali, Lauren Russo, Kenneth Granet
• Development of a respiratory quality improvement faculty in an acute hospital using QI methodology (12 October, 2022)

  Lucy Anne Boast, Judith Anne Hampson, Rachel Louise Saville, Emma Toplis, Abdulla Baguneid, Daniel Alexander Williams, Aklak Choudhury
• Time-out in prolonged labour: development of a care model to prevent secondary fear of childbirth (12 October, 2022)

  Anna-Karin Ringqvist, Liselotte Bergqvist, Thomas Brezicka, Ingela Lundgren
• Development, implementation and evaluation of high-quality virtual preoperative anaesthetic assessment during COVID-19 and beyond: a quality improvement report (10 October, 2022)

  Petar Popivanov, Sohail Bampoe, Terry Tan, Paul Rafferty
• Improving incident reporting among physicians at south health campus hospital (7 October, 2022)

  Jennifer Ngo, Darren Lau, Jodi Ploquin, Tracey Receveur, Kobus Stassen, Colin Del Castilho
• Using virtual wards and long-term conditions management network to improve practice and performance (5 October, 2022)

  Ezra Kanyimo
• New take on the post-take ward round: a quality improvement project undertaken in a district general hospital (3 October, 2022)

  Georgia Kate Galloway, Sarah Nahin Choudhury