Table of contents

Quality improvement report

• Improving management of hyponatraemia by increasing urine testing in the emergency department (27 September, 2023)

  Nathaniel E Wiest, Ayan Nasir, Albert Bui, Christian Karime, R Christopher Chase, Maria S Barrios, Ryan Hunter, Samuel M Jones, Varun P Moktan, Jessica G Creager, Ehsan Shirazi, Michael M Mohseni, Nancy L Dawson
• Implementation of a nurse-led multidisciplinary huddle meeting for improvement of early rehabilitation in ICU: a healthcare quality improvement project (27 September, 2023)

  Kazuaki Naya, Hideaki Sakuramoto, Gen Aikawa, Kotaro Hayashi
• Reducing hospital admissions in patients with malignant pleural effusion: a quality improvement study (26 September, 2023)

  Rebecca R Cloyes, Enambir Josan, Nicholas Pastis, Jianing Ma, Marilly Palettas, Jing Peng, Susan Vasko-Wood, Chelsea Mohrman, Christian Ghattas, Carolyn Presley, Alberto Revelo, Jasleen Pannu
• Clinical-scientist-led transoesophageal echocardiography (TOE): using extended roles to improve the service (25 September, 2023)

  Nikki Kaye, Michael Purdon, Rebecca Schofield, Grazia Antonacci, Nathan Proudlove
• Decreasing appointment waiting days for first consultation for patients attending adult weight management clinic in a tertiary hospital (20 September, 2023)

  Dypti Lulla, Jeslyn Hwee Teng Neo, Rui En Lynette Cheah, Zaiton Bte Soedar, Rukshini Puvanendran
• Improving personalised care, through the development of a service evaluation tool to assess, understand and monitor delivery (5 September, 2023)

  Louise Johnson, Hayden Kirk, Beth Clark, Stephanie Heath, Carolyn Royse, Carl Adams, Mari Carmen Portillo
• Improving personalised care and support planning for people living with treatable-but-not-curable cancer (4 September, 2023)

  Clair Le Boutillier, Julian Jeyasingh-Jacob, Lizzie Jones, Alex King, Stephanie Archer, Catherine Urch
• No waiting lying in a corridor: a quality improvement initiative in an emergency department (28 August, 2023)

  Thomas Schmutz, Christophe Le Terrier, Vincent Ribordy, Youcef Guechi
• Improving wound swab collection in paediatric patients: a quality improvement project (23 August, 2023)

  Sean H Leonard, Ian Chin-Yee, Johan Delport, Abby Crozier, Farah Abdulsatar
• Implementation of a palliative care consultation trigger tool for hospitalised patients with acute decompensated heart failure (18 August, 2023)

  Adhiraj Bhattacharya, Satyaki Chakrabarty, Jose Cabrales, Alixis VanHorn, Jaclyn Lemoine, Lana Tsao, Bertrand L Jaber
• Use of a context-specific package to increase sputum smear monitoring among people with pulmonary tuberculosis in Uganda: a quality improvement study (9 August, 2023)

  Norbert Adrawa, Simon Ongiro, Kizito Lotee, Jacob Seret, Mary Adeke, Jonathan Izudi
• Reducing prolonged fasting for abdominal ultrasound scans (4 August, 2023)

  Rajan Singh Sondh, Rajnish Mankotia
• Improving the quality of rehabilitation following anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction surgery, in an outpatient physiotherapy department (31 July, 2023)

  Michael Henning, Rose Henning, Joe Dummett
• Training for managing impacted fetal head at caesarean birth: multimethod evaluation of a pilot (31 July, 2023)

  Jan W van der Scheer, Katie Cornthwaite, Pauline Hewitt, Rachna Bahl, Wendy Randall, Alison Powell, Akbar Ansari, Bothaina Attal, Janet Willars, Matthew Woodward, Imogen A F Brown, Annabelle Olsson, Natalie Richards, Evleen Price, Alessandra Giusti, Joann Leeding, Lisa Hinton, Jenni Burt, Mary Dixon-Woods, Giulia Maistrello, Nick Fahy, Oscar Lyons, ABC Contributor Group, Tim Draycott
• Improving hand therapy delivery during care transitions in multisystem trauma patients (28 July, 2023)

  Thomas Milazzo, Kelly Bishop, George Ho, Estella Tse, Paul Binhammer, Amanda Mayo, Jana Dengler
• Reorganising and improving quality of care for hyperemesis gravidarum in a Danish hospital: a quality improvement project (18 July, 2023)

  Anne Ostenfeld, Tina Bergmann Futtrup, Ellen Christine Leth Løkkegaard, Hanne Brix Westergaard
• Time to be more efficient: reducing wasted transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) diagnostic appointment slots at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Trust (17 July, 2023)

  Dario Freitas, Sam Alner, Camelia Demetrescu, Grazia Antonacci, Nathan Proudlove
• Saturday Pap Smear Clinic: addressing barriers to cervical cancer screening (14 July, 2023)

  Brittany Strelow, Mollie Francis, Gabrielle Gertner, Rachel Olson, Kholood Abuhadid, Deqa Abdi, Jordan Anderson, Nicole Fellows, Stephanie Fink, Joy Stevens, Sonya Peters, Anne Stolp, Johanna Tweedy, Danielle O'Laughlin
• Introduction of a dedicated colic clinic reduces referral to treatment times in patients managed expectantly with acute ureteric colic: a quality improvement project (10 July, 2023)

  Jack Cullen, Francesca Kum, Luca Scott, Vugar Ismaylov, Ramandeep Chalokia, Susan Willis
• Increasing utilisation of a rebound hyperbilirubinaemia calculator in two newborn nurseries (10 July, 2023)

  Sarah Germana, Sophie Kay Shaikh