Table of contents

BMJ Quality Improvement Programme

• Written medical discharge communication from an acute stroke service: a project to improve content through development of a structured stroke-specific template (24 October, 2013)

  Petra Mäkelä, Chiara Haynes, Katherine Holt, Arindam Kar
• Rapid access rather than open access leads to improved effectiveness of an ENT emergency clinic (2 October, 2013)

  Catherine Smyth, Michael Moran, Catherine Diver, Susanne Hampton
• Checklist clerking document improves health promotion among medical admissions (2 October, 2013)

  Sarah Cousins
• Telephone consultations in primary care, how to improve their safety, effectiveness and quality (2 October, 2013)

  Muhammad Naseer Babar Khan
• Improving safety of sedation for transoesophageal echocardiography (2 October, 2013)

  Amour Patel, Dev R Katarey
• From Zero to Hero, the rise of the Trauma and Orthopaedic discharge summary (27 September, 2013)

  Jonathan Evans, Alexander Armstrong
• Improving treatment provision of Wet AMD with intravitreal ranibizumab (27 September, 2013)

  Fadi Ghazala, Marta Hovan, Sajjad Mahmood
• Look before you LEAPP™: An interprofessional approach to bedside pediatric inpatient procedures (27 September, 2013)

  Ann S Botash, Michelle Jeski, Colleen Baish Cameron, Elizabeth K. Nelsen, Pamela Haines, Nicholas Bennett
• Helping children stop or avoid enteral feeding (25 September, 2013)

  Charlotte Wright
• Competence in confirming correct placement of nasogastric feeding tubes amongst FY1 doctors (25 September, 2013)

  Sindy Lee, Eleanor Mason
• Improving transmission rates of electronic discharge summaries to GPs (17 September, 2013)

  Rory Barr, Kuen Yeow Chin, Keefai Yeong
• Improving patient discharge process using electronic medication input tool and on-line guide to arranging follow-ups (17 September, 2013)

  Rory Barr, Kuen Yeow Chin, Keefai Yeong
• Improving spinal trauma management in non-specialist centres (17 September, 2013)

  Alex Magnussen, Kate Galloway, Alexander Dinneen
• The utilisation of the MUST nutritional screening tool on vascular surgical wards (17 September, 2013)

  Nilanjana Tewari, Jeremy Rodrigues, Lydia Bothamley, Nishath Altaf, Sherif Awad
• Improving documentation of treatment escalation decisions in acute care (27 August, 2013)

  Mark Dahill, Louise Powter, Lynn Garland, Mark Mallett, Jerry Nolan
• Improving e-discharge letters for Permanent pacemaker insertions at Wansbeck General Hospital (27 August, 2013)

  Christopher Taylor
• Improving medical SHO weekend handover at a tertiary referral centre (27 August, 2013)

  Olivia Curtis, Rachel Fisher
• Making the ward a more efficient place: a qualitative evaluation of the impact of the Vista 90 trolley (27 August, 2013)

  Nikhil Ahluwalia
• Prospective management of end-stage renal failure within a conservative care programme (27 August, 2013)

  Neeraj Dhaun, Johanna Mackenzie, Jane Goddard, Caroline Whitworth
• Quality improvement in Respiratory Medicine: Designing and implementing a bronchoscopy checklist at Southend University Hospital (27 August, 2013)

  Muhunthan Thillai, Duncan Powrie
• Reducing time spent by junior doctors on call performing routine tasks at weekends (27 August, 2013)

  Wadah Ibrahim, Simeng Lin
• Targeting the initial investigation and management in cases of acute pulmonary embolism (27 August, 2013)

  Nicholas Moore, Peter Hawkins
• Training the Trainers of Tomorrow Today - driving excellence in medical education (27 August, 2013)

  Elizabeth Fellow-Smith, Ed Beveridge, Katy Hogben, Graeme Wilson, John Lowe, Rachel Abraham, Digby Ingle, Danielle Bennett, Carol Hernandez
• Using a screening tool to improve timely referral of patients from acute oncology-haematology to palliative care services (27 August, 2013)

  Akhtari Begum
• Delivering preference for place of death in a specialist palliative care setting (21 August, 2013)

  David Oxenham, Anne Finucane, Elizabeth Arnold, Papiya Russell
• Development of an Integrated Subspecialist Multidisciplinary Neuro-oncology Service (21 August, 2013)

  Stephen J Price, Mathew Guilfoyle, Sarah J Jefferies, Fiona Harris, Ingela Oberg, Neil G Burnet, Thomas Santarius, Colin Watts
• Admission avoidance using intramuscular antibiotics for the treatment of borderline foot infections in people with diabetes in a tertiary care foot clinic (24 July, 2013)

  Ketan Dhatariya
• An inter-professional education programme for diabetes care in London (24 July, 2013)

  Daniel L Ching, Kenneth A Earle
• Facillitating diabetes care - a community approach (24 July, 2013)

  Tim Goulder, Partha Kar
• Implementing scientific evidence to improve the quality of Child Protection (24 July, 2013)

  Laura Cowley, Vanessa Tempest, Sabine Maguire, Mala Mann, Aideen Naughton, Laura Wain, Alison Kemp
• Improving patient access at a movement disorder clinic by participating in a Process Improvement Program (24 July, 2013)

  Alan Goodridge, Douglas Woodhouse, Janet Barbour
• Improving the management of Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia, including MRSA (24 July, 2013)

  Claudia Meyer, Eleanor Pett
• How creation of a parent satisfaction questionnaire improved multidisciplinary service delivery in a paediatric day surgery unit. (8 July, 2013)

  Alison Bradley
• Bidding for and setting up a Comprehensive Stroke Unit (5 June, 2013)

  David Cohen, Sue Fenwick Elliott
• Implementing a Patient Safety Team to reduce serious incidents (5 June, 2013)

  Louise Dowell
• How can we reduce violence and aggression in psychiatric inpatient units? (5 June, 2013)

  Arokia Antonysamy
• Reducing short-stay hospital admissions by ruling out non-ST elevation myocardial infarction and estimating coronary artery disease likelihood on an emergency department observation ward (17 May, 2013)

  Martin Wiese
• Oxfordshire Childrens Diabetes - The Primary Schools Intervention Programme (17 May, 2013)

  Rani Pal, Julie Edge
• Professional Support, London: the professional development unit supporting practitioner well-being, refreshment, remediation and revalidation (17 May, 2013)

  Julia Whiteman, Penny Morris, Helen Halpern
• Post-acute surgical ward round proforma improves documentation (17 May, 2013)

  Haitham Al-Mahrouqi, Ramadan Oumer, Richard Tapper, Ross Roberts
• Using a proforma to improve standards of documentation of an orthopaedic post-take ward round (24 April, 2013)

  Oliver Duxbury, Stephanie Hili, John Afolayan
• Preventing the co-prescription of tamoxifen and fluoxetine in General Practice (24 April, 2013)

  Thomas Stonier, Michael Harrison
• The Effect of ‘On-Line’ POCT on Patient waiting times in an Accident and Emergency Department (12 April, 2013)

  Ashfaq Gilkar, Richard Fink, Philip Eardley, Catriona Barron
• Successful implementation of strategies to transform Emergency Department transfusion practice. (10 April, 2013)

  Matthew J Reed, Sarah-Louise Kelly, Hannah Beckwith, Catherine J Innes, Lynn Manson
• Emergency suction equipment: barriers to use and effective interventions (25 March, 2013)

  Alexander Carpenter, Laura Glenn
• Cardiovascular health monitoring in patients with psychotic illnesses: A project to investigate and improve performance in primary and secondary care (19 March, 2013)

  Rakesh Narendra Modi, David Ledingham
• Improving out-of-hours intravenous fluid prescribing for junior doctors: a prescription label (27 February, 2013)

  Sidonie Hartridge-Lambert, Lorna Moore, Oliver Walker, Dominic Wilkinson
• Improving the transport of urgent specimens to an off-site laboratory using a novel sticker-tracker (21 February, 2013)

  Afsoon Sepahzad, Florence Ejiofor, Susan Giles, Robert Klaber
• Improving Peripherally Inserted Central Catheter (PICC) care on a Trauma and Orthopaedics ward (27 February, 2013)

  Marta Piorkowska, Zahra Al-Raweshidy, Keefai Yeong
• Introduction of 'Anaphylaxis Packs' to improve patient safety in a hospital setting (27 February, 2013)

  Susanna Meade, Jenny Douglas
• Can a multi-factorial assessment and interventional programme decrease inpatient falls in an elderly care ward? (21 February, 2013)

  Rebecca SJ Gibson, April Heaney, Karen Hull
• Improving documentation and use of ultrasound for suprapubic catheter insertions. (21 February, 2013)

  Nigel Day
• Decreasing the risk of iatrogenic lymphoedema after axillary surgery: a threefold intervention (19 March, 2013)

  Sophie Bates, Rosemary Sedgwick