Table of contents
January 2015 - Volume 4 - 1
BMJ Quality Improvement Programme
- Using visual prompts to aid analgesia prescribing (9 December, 2015)
- Improving the diagnosis of pulmonary embolism in the emergency department (9 December, 2015)
- A simple prioritisation system to improve the electronic handover (2 December, 2015)
- Improving emergency department flow through Rapid Medical Evaluation unit (2 December, 2015)
- Hypoglycaemia monitoring in a medical receiving ward (25 November, 2015)
- Improving fluid balance monitoring on the wards (18 November, 2015)
- Coaching for recovery: a quality improvement project in mental healthcare (11 November, 2015)
- Getting Access to Toxbase for Doctors in the Avon and Wiltshire Partnership (11 November, 2015)
- Improving Detection of IV Infiltrates in Neonates (30 October, 2015)
- Improving handover of acute orthopaedic admissions (23 October, 2015)
- Nurse led venesection: a quality improvement project (22 October, 2015)
- Preconception counselling resource for women with diabetes (12 October, 2015)
- Chest drain care bundle: Improving documentation and safety (12 October, 2015)
- Improving referrals to the Liaison service at the Royal United Hospital in Bath (30 September, 2015)
- Inpatient Falls: Improving assessment, documentation, and management (29 September, 2015)
- A multifaceted approach to prevention of delirium on intensive care (11 September, 2015)
- Training in General Surgery Ward Call: A Resident-Student Buddy System (11 September, 2015)
- Improving timely medical reviews for patients discharged from intensive care (10 September, 2015)
- Improving patient outcomes with technology and social media in paediatric diabetes (10 September, 2015)
- Improving the recording of surgical drain output (4 September, 2015)
- Atrial fibrillation care improvement collaborative (2 September, 2015)
- Improving phlebotomy handover of untaken blood tests to junior doctors (27 August, 2015)
- ImERSE (Improving Experience through Regular Shadowing Events) (19 August, 2015)
- Concise Care Bundles In Acute Medicine (3 July, 2015)
- Epilepsy emergency rescue training (12 June, 2015)
- Reducing hospital acquired pressure ulcers in intensive care (9 June, 2015)
- Smoking Cessation Interventions in the Cardiology Ward (9 June, 2015)
- Psychological Medicine in Bart’s: improving access and awareness (7 April, 2015)
- Oxygen Delivery on Medical Wards (2 April, 2015)
- Troponin: think before you request one (26 March, 2015)
- Recognition of the deteriorating patient (25 March, 2015)
- Mortality meetings in geriatric medicine: strategies for improvement (17 March, 2015)
- Improving pain assessment and managment in stroke patients (12 March, 2015)
- Out of hours intravenous fluid therapy: a prompt to guide prescribing (12 February, 2015)
- Improving inpatient care with the introduction of a hip fracture pathway (11 February, 2015)
- Medication Reconciliation Improvement Through the Use of Video (11 February, 2015)
- A tool to improve communication in the neonatal unit (11 February, 2015)
- Developing a ward round checklist to improve patient safety (11 February, 2015)
- Dilemmas of a rota: Google's solution (11 February, 2015)
- Improving the management of acute pancreatitis in a district general hospital (11 February, 2015)
- Patient handover in orthopaedics, improving safety using Information Technology (11 February, 2015)
- Use of a validated screening tool for psoriatic arthritis in dermatology clinics (10 February, 2015)
- Promoting vision and hearing aids use in an intensive care unit (9 February, 2015)
- Nutritional assessment in elderly care: a MUST! (23 January, 2015)
- Improving patient flow in pre-operative assessment (7 January, 2015)
- Traffic lights: putting a stop to unsafe patient transfers (7 January, 2015)