Table of contents

BMJ Quality Improvement Programme

• Improving the recognition of post-operative acute kidney injury (17 December, 2014)

  Nicola Trotter, Cal Doherty, Vicki Tully, Peter Davey, Samira Bell
• A clinico-ethical framework for multidisciplinary review of medication in nursing homes (10 December, 2014)

  Wasim Baqir, Steven Barrett, Nisha Desai, Richard Copeland, Julian Hughes
• Improving the surgical hot clinic (10 December, 2014)

  Thomas Hubbard, Rhys Thomas
• Improving accessibility of trust guidelines and protocols at the Great Western Hospital, Swindon (10 December, 2014)

  Ian Robertson, Abigail Smith, Jennifer Tucker, Erica Cilia, Kangni Chen, Rose Marion, Julian Nesbitt, Steve Ramcharitar, Mala Cathiavadi Greamspet
• Improving non-invasive ventilation documentation (10 December, 2014)

  Matthew Smith, Natalie Elkheir
• Reducing door to needle time for stroke thrombolysis (10 December, 2014)

  Sumanjit Gill
• Medical rota changes and venous thromboembolism prophylaxis in orthopaedic patients (10 December, 2014)

  Iain Bohler, Alan George Mackenzie Jardine
• Improving acute eye consultations in general practice: a practical approach (10 December, 2014)

  Michelle Ai Ling Teo
• A new oxygen prescription produces real improvements in therapeutic oxygen use (1 December, 2014)

  James Rudge, Sunita Odedra, Danielle Harrison
• Improving the percentage of electronic discharge summaries completed within 24 hours of discharge (17 November, 2014)

  Michael Haycock, Laura Stuttaford, Oliver Ruscombe-King, Zoe Barker, Kathryn Callaghan, Timothy Davis
• Management of transient ischaemic attacks in the emergency department: a quality improvement project (17 November, 2014)

  Simon Wydall, Andrew Gordon, Mark Sims
• Improving management of severe sepsis and uptake of sepsis resuscitation bundle in an acute setting (12 November, 2014)

  Sumitra Kafle, Navdeep Nath
• Improving phlebotomy handover to doctors: a quality improvement project (7 November, 2014)

  Genevieve Shouls, Zakariya Jarrar, John Wickenden
• The impact of nurse-led annual telephone follow-up of patients with inflammatory bowel disease (7 November, 2014)

  Palle Bager
• Ward round documentation in a major trauma centre: can we improve patient safety? (4 November, 2014)

  Gemma Green, Arash Aframian, jason bernard
• How clean is clean: a new approach to assess and enhance environmental cleaning and disinfection in an acute tertiary care facility (4 November, 2014)

  Wai Khuan Ng
• Intravenous fluid prescribing: Improving prescribing practices and documentation in line with NICE CG174 guidance (4 November, 2014)

  Luke Thomas Sansom, Luke Duggleby
• Improving incident reporting among junior doctors (4 November, 2014)

  Emily Hotton, Lesley Jordan, Carol Peden
• A persuasive intervention: improving the compliance of extended venous thromboembolism prophylaxis following cancer resections in a tertiary colorectal and hepatobiliary unit (29 October, 2014)

  Yao Pey Yong, Alvin Karangizi, Ayan Banerjea
• Improving the follow-up of microbiology results: the origins of the Pink Book (29 October, 2014)

  Henry Boyle, Charlie Hunt, Catherine McIlroy, Imran Qureshi
• Optimising calcium monitoring post thyroid and parathyroid surgery (29 October, 2014)

  Eleanor Rayner, Nerida Williams, Julie Dunn
• Improving the accuracy and turn-around time of controlled drug prescribing for patients being discharged home for end-of-life care (29 October, 2014)

  Suzanne Daniel, Janki Patel, Debbie Benson
• Improving the accuracy of operation coding in surgical discharge summaries (21 October, 2014)

  Eirini Martinou, Genevieve Shouls, Nadine Betambeau
• Self-management of vaginal pessaries for pelvic organ prolapse (21 October, 2014)

  Rohna Kearney, Claire Brown
• Chest pain symptom scoring can improve the quality of referrals to Rapid Access Chest Pain Clinic (21 October, 2014)

  Krishnaraj Sinhji Rathod, Helen Ward, Fahad Farooqi
• Recovery coaching in an acute older people rehabiliation ward (16 October, 2014)

  Sharon Kibble, Debra Gray, Merce Prat-Sala, Kirsty Ross, Karen Johnson, Jane Packer, Elizabeth Shire, Rhian Cross, Beverley Harden
• MediDial cards: a quick win for service improvement (16 October, 2014)

  Mike Davies, Sonia Panchal
• Improving self-efficacy in spinal cord injury patients through "design thinking" rehabilitation workshops (16 October, 2014)

  Daniel Wolstenholme, Tom Downes, Jackie Leaver, Rebecca Partridge, Joseph Langley
• Dial a Doctor: Improving lines of communication on the acute admissions unit. (9 October, 2014)

  Fionnuala Schwartz
• Working better together: joint leadership development for doctors and managers (9 October, 2014)

  Nicola Kelly
• Starting early: integration of self-management support into an acute stroke service (1 October, 2014)

  Petra Mäkelä, Sara Gawned, Fiona Jones
• Improving handover of patient care using a new weekend proforma with a focus on ceiling of care (1 October, 2014)

  Christopher Yusuf Akhunbay-Fudge, Imogen Buss, Abigail Ward, Charlotte Snead, Miranda Cole, Archie Coulter
• Reducing mortality from hip fractures: a systematic quality improvement programme (19 September, 2014)

  Radcliffe Lisk, Keefai Yeong
• Improving mid stream urine sampling: reducing labelling error and laboratory rejection (19 September, 2014)

  Adam Jakes, Eleanor McCue, Alison Cracknell
• Improving cardiac assessment and monitoring in methadone prescribing at an addiction service (19 September, 2014)

  Mark Ramage, Kate Fadaka
• Improving medical induction in obstetrics and gynaecology (19 September, 2014)

  Eve Allen, Edward Palmer, Jilly Lloyd
• Improving junior doctor handover between jobs (19 September, 2014)

  Laura Hayes
• Reducing non-attendance rates in a community mental health team (12 September, 2014)

  Maria Filippidou, Susie Lingwood, Ilyas Mirza
• Improving the frequency of visual infusion phlebitis (VIP) scoring on an oncology ward (12 September, 2014)

  Evangelos Tzolos, Abdulazeez Salawu
• Improving surgical weekend handover (12 September, 2014)

  Caroline Culwick, Chris Devine, Catherine Coombs
• Improving pre-operative medicines reconciliation (29 August, 2014)

  Annemarie Brunswicker, Amieth Yogarajah
• Compassionate Conversations (2 September, 2014)

  Sharryn Gardner, Dominic Bray
• Improving the quality of weekend handover at Yeovil District Hospital (2 September, 2014)

  Sarah Sneller, Karolina Lada, Charlotte Turner, Sinead Millwood, Bethan Jervis, Julia Barr, Louise Farrell
• Improving Sepsis Management in the Acute Admissions Unit (27 August, 2014)

  Laura Adcroft
• Vitamin D supplementation in neonates (26 August, 2014)

  Zhe Wu
• Structured approach in improving weekend handovers in a medical high dependency unit (26 August, 2014)

  Roma Patel, Prarthana Thiagarajan
• Improving the quality of hospital discharge summaries utilising an electronic prompting system (26 August, 2014)

  Andrew P Maurice, Samuel Chan, Clifford W Pollard, Richard A Kidd, Stephen J Ayre, Helen E Ward, Darren L Walters
• Increasing uptake of bowel cancer screening (15 August, 2014)

  Sarah Graham
• Improving Mental Status Questionnaire (MSQ) completion on admission to the Acute Surgical Receiving Unit (ASRU), Ninewells Hospital, Dundee (15 August, 2014)

  Sylvia Okwemba, Lauren Copeland
• A novel approach to Junior Doctor Induction: A near-peer based curriculum developed and delivered by outgoing Foundation year doctors (13 August, 2014)

  Kittiya Sukcharoen, Matthew Everson, Clare van Hamel
• Developing a Platform for Learning from Mistakes: changing the culture of patient safety amongst junior doctors (12 August, 2014)

  Sinead Millwood
• Report into "on the day cancellations" for plastic surgery in patients who failed to stop their medication (6 August, 2014)

  Edward Bass, Parneet Gill
• A reimagined discharge lounge as a way to an efficient discharge process (5 August, 2014)

  Natalia Hernandez, Dinesh John, Joan Mitchell
• Anticoagulation service: improving the referral process (22 July, 2014)

  Thomas Davies, Ryan Geleit
• A new patient information leaflet for Dermatology outpatients (22 July, 2014)

  Katrin Becker, lindsay whittam
• Smoking cessation for hospital inpatients (22 July, 2014)

  Gary Bickerstaffe
• Improving management of constipation in an inpatient setting using a care bundle (15 July, 2014)

  Andrew Linton
• Improving surgical inpatient ward lists in a large acute hospital: a simple yet effective process to save the time of junior house officers (18 June, 2014)

  Ross Kenny, Carolyn Johnston, Imran Qureshi
• Introducing a chest pain pathway in the emergency department to improve quality of care for patients with possible cardiac chest pain (18 June, 2014)

  Jill Byrne
• A daily huddle facilitates patient transports from a neonatal intensive care unit (13 June, 2014)

  Colleen Hughes Driscoll, Dina El Metwally
• Improving the management of patients with acute red eyes in a large London Emergency Department (13 June, 2014)

  Aamir Saifuddin, Rachel Brookes
• Management of anaemia and blood transfusion in critical care - implementing national guidelines in ICU (13 June, 2014)

  Sethina Watson, Kate Kendrick
• Reducing time to reperfusion for ST elevation myocardial infarction patients by a simple process change in the Emergency Department (11 June, 2014)

  Jill Byrne
• Improving patient care over weekends by reducing on-call work load and better time management (11 June, 2014)

  Syed Anjum Ali Gardezi
• Improvement of patient satisfaction with the neurosurgery service at a large tertiary care, London-based hospital (5 June, 2014)

  Amad Khan, Mohammad Naushad Chaudhry, Salema Khalid, Dipankar Nandi
• Signposting GP trainees to relevant learning opportunities in hospital posts:the Super-condensed Curriculum Guide (29 May, 2014)

  MeiLing Denney
• Everyone gets involved: fostering a high quality teaching and learning culture in the NHS (28 May, 2014)

  Philip McElnay, Danya Bakhbakhi, Jane Sansom
• Improving the quality of patient handover on a surgical ward (20 May, 2014)

  Alison Bradley
• A simple measure to improve the rates of thromboprophylaxis prescription post surgical fixation of neck of femur fractures in a district general hospital (16 May, 2014)

  Pranab Sinha, Ali-Asgar Najefi, John Hambidge
• Improving the efficiency of discharge summary completion by linking to preexisiting patient information databases (16 May, 2014)

  Samuel Chan, Andrew P Maurice, Clifford W Pollard, Stephen J Ayre, Darren L Walters, Helen E Ward
• Improving the education and experience of foundation doctors in general surgery (16 May, 2014)

  Gareth Martel, Cathy Magee
• Improving Patient Safety of Acute Care Lumbar Punctures (14 May, 2014)

  Victoria Ormerod
• Improving the medical 'take sheet' (6 May, 2014)

  Oliver Reed
• Simulation-based training improves ITU staff knowledge in the management of head injuries. (6 May, 2014)

  Matthew Smith, stefan jankowski
• Improving access to competitive employment for service users in forensic psychiatric units (2 May, 2014)

  Charlotte Beck, Connie Wernham
• Improving the Peri-operative care of Patients by instituting a 'Block Room' for Regional Anaesthesia (2 May, 2014)

  Maria Chazapis, Navkiran Kaur, Damon Kamming
• Unseen but present danger: improving the safe prescribing of anti-embolism stockings (AES) (29 April, 2014)

  Alison Bradley
• A quality improvement project to improve the effectiveness and patient-centredness of management of people with mild-to-moderate kidney disease in primary care (29 April, 2014)

  Nicola Thomas, Hugh Gallagher, Neerja Jain
• Improving the documentation of the daily review of patients in general intensive care (29 April, 2014)

  Liana Zucco, Carly Webb
• Improving the safety and efficiency of nurse medication rounds through the introduction of an automated dispensing cabinet (25 April, 2014)

  Alan Cottney
• Weight a minute - iatrogenic paracetamol toxicity is preventable by utilisation of well-designed drug charts (25 April, 2014)

  Amad Khan, Kathryn Flavin, Jason Tsang
• Improving electronic information sharing for palliative care patients (22 April, 2014)

  Amanda Pringle, Anne Finucane, David Oxenham
• General Practice Locum Improvement Tool (22 April, 2014)

  Christopher Weatherburn, Shawkat Hasan
• Obesity management in a Paediatric Emergency Department (4 April, 2014)

  Martin Knight, Charlotte Booth
• Improving the accessibility of trust guidelines for junior doctors at North Bristol NHS Trust (4 April, 2014)

  Madelaine Tarrant, Calum Honeyman, Alex Aquilina, Katie Young
• The Champions League - Improving the quality of in-patient antibiotic prescription in Trauma and Orthopaedics (25 March, 2014)

  Jonathan Evans, Clair Saxby, Alexander Armstrong
• Service improvement system to enhance the safety of patients admitted on long-term warfarin (19 March, 2014)

  Dana Warcel, Daniel Johnson, Neeraj Shah, Norman shreeve
• Improving the preoperative care of patients with femoral neck fractures through the development and implementation of a checklist (5 March, 2014)

  Riaz Agha, Eric Edison, Alexander Fowler
• Management of urinary tract infections in elderly patients: Strategies for improvement (4 March, 2014)

  Vee Han Lim, Thomas Whitehurst, Emem Usoro, Sieu Ming Ng
• Continuity of care for orthopaedic patients in a district general hospital (4 March, 2014)

  Praneta Kulloo