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BMJ Quality Improvement Programme

• The use of a validated pre-discharge questionnaire to improve the quality of patient experience of orthopaedic care (16 June, 2017)

  Paul Baker, Beverley Tytler, Angela Artley, Khalid Hamid, Rajat Paul, William Eardley
• Improving door to CT scanner times for potential stroke thrombolysis candidates – The Emergency Department's role (27 June, 2017)

  Victoria Barbour, Shobhan Thakore
• Reducing patient waiting time and length of stay in an Acute Care Pediatric Emergency Department (26 June, 2017)

  Milfi Al-Onazi, Ahmed Al Hajri, Angela Caswell, Maria Leizl Hugo Villanueva, Zuhair Mohammed, Vania Esteves, Faith Vabasa, Khaled Al-Surimi
• Improving patient blood management in obstetrics: snapshots of a practice improvement partnership (23 June, 2017)

  Cindy J Flores, Farah Sethna, Ben Stephens, Ben Saxon, Frank S Hong, Trish Roberts, Tracey Spigiel, Maria Burgess, Belinda Connors, Philip Crispin
• Acute kidney injury; improving the communication from secondary to primary care (23 June, 2017)

  Clemency Nye, Suzanna Lake
• Reducing the number of unnecessary liver function tests requested on the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (16 June, 2017)

  Lynn Sinitsky, Joe Brierley
• Introducing a post-operative proforma for elective lower limb arthroplasty patients – improving patient care and junior doctor confidence (15 June, 2017)

  James Olivier, Michael Stoddart, Katie Miller, Robbie McLintock, Mark Dahill
• Experiences with Lean Six Sigma as improvement strategy to reduce parenteral medication administration errors and associated potential risk of harm (15 June, 2017)

  Afke van de Plas, Mariëlle Slikkerveer, Saskia Hoen, Rick Schrijnemakers, Johanna Driessen, Frank de Vries, Patricia van den Bemt
• Improving medicines reconciliation rates at Ashford and St. Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (8 June, 2017)

  Reshmee Doolub
• The Handy Approach – Quick Integrated Person Centred Support Preparation (6 June, 2017)

  Liliana Risi, Juliette Brown, Paul Sugarhood, Babalal Depala, Abi Olowosoyo, Cynthia Tomu, Lorena Gonzalez, Maloles Munoz-Cobo, Oladimeji Adekunle, Okumu Ogwal, Eirlys Evans, Amar Shah
• Hydration Stickers - Improving oral hydration in vulnerable patients (25 May, 2017)

  Alysha Bhatti, Javier Ash, Shyam Gokani, Suveer Singh
• Increasing the uptake of electronic prescribing in primary care (25 May, 2017)

  Nazia Imambaccus, Samuel Glace, Rory Heath
• A Multifaceted Quality Improvement Programme to Improve Acute Kidney Injury Care and Outcomes in a Large Teaching Hospital (25 May, 2017)

  Leonard Ebah, Prasanna Hanumapura, Deryn Waring, Rachael Challiner, Katharine Hayden, Jill Alexander, Robert Henney, Rachel Royston, Cassian Butterworth, Marc Vincent, Susan Heatley, Ged Terriere, Robert Pearson, Alastair Hutchison
• Evaluating the quality improvement impact of the Global Tracheostomy Collaborative in four diverse NHS hospitals (23 May, 2017)

  Brendan A McGrath, James Lynch, Barbarella Bonvento, Sarah Wallace, Val Poole, Ann Farrell, Cristina Diaz, Sadie Khwaja, David W Roberson
• Choosing Wisely: A Quality Improvement Initiative to Decrease Unnecessary Preoperative Testing (23 May, 2017)

  John Matulis, Stephen Liu, John Mecchella, Frederick North, Alison Holmes
• Design and Implementation of a Trauma Care Bundle at a Community Hospital (17 May, 2017)

  Ryan Andres, Elan Hahn, Steffen de Kok, Rafi Setrak, Jeffrey Doyle, Allison Brown
• Improving inpatient care for older adults: Implementing Dementia Commissioning for Quality and Innovation (CQUIN) (17 May, 2017)

  Judith R Harrison
• Improving bowel preparation for colonoscopy in a cost effective manner (17 May, 2017)

  Syed Anjum Gardezi, Clare Tibbatts
• Proper Electronic Order Linkage of Electrocardiograms at a Large Children's Hospital Improves Reporting and Revenue (12 May, 2017)

  David S Spar, Wayne A Mays, David S Cooper, Lucille Sullivan, Terra Hicks, Jeffrey B Anderson
• REDucing Unnecessary Coagulation Testing in the Emergency Department (REDUCED) (2 May, 2017)

  Michael Fralick, Lisa K Hicks, Hina Chaudhry, Nicola Goldberg, Alun Ackery, Rosane Nisenbaum, Michelle Sholzberg
• Reducing Central Venous Catheter Use in Peripheral Blood Stem Cell Donation: Quality Improvement Report (28 April, 2017)

  Samer Ghazi, Ahmed Alaskar, Mohsen Alzahrani, Moussab Damlaj, Khadega A Abuelgasim, Giamal Gmati, Mona Alshami, Salman Alshammary, Khaled Al-Surimi, Hind Salama, Ayman Alhejazi, Abdul-Rahman Jazieh
• Introducing a New Junior Doctor Electronic Weekend Handover on an Orthopaedic Ward (28 April, 2017)

  Siddharth Maroo, Dipak Raj
• Using real-time, anonymous staff feedback to improve staff experience and engagement (28 April, 2017)

  Anne Frampton, Fiona Fox, Andrew Hollowood, Kate Northstone, Ruta Margelyte, Stephanie Smith-Clarke, Sabi Redwood
• Increasing Organ Donor Registration in a Primary Care Clinic (28 April, 2017)

  Navneet Natt, Erin Klar, Ingrid Cheung, Pavan Matharu, Risa Bordman
• Use of Electronic Clinical Decision Support and Hard Stops to Decrease Unnecessary Thyroid Function Testing (28 April, 2017)

  Sonia Dalal, Siddharth Bhesania, Steven Silber, Parag Mehta
• Measuring and improving cervical, breast, and colorectal cancer screening rates in a multi-site urban practice in Toronto, Canada (28 April, 2017)

  Joshua Feldman, Sam Davie, Tara Kiran
• Transitional care management in the outpatient setting (27 April, 2017)

  Analiza Baldonado, Ofelia Hawk, Thomas Ormiston, Danielle Nelson
• Improving access for Urgent patients in Paediatric Neurology (27 April, 2017)

  Khalid Mohamed, Basema Al Houri, Khalid Ibrahim, Abdulhafeez M Khair
• The Value of a Surgical Assessment Unit Ultrasound Facility (27 April, 2017)

  Wesley Lai, Catherine Gutteridge, Alicia Regan, Anthony Lambert
• SWITCH: Al Wakra Hospital Journey to 90% Hand Hygiene Practice Compliance, 2011 – 2015 (27 April, 2017)

  Feah Altura - Visan, Almunzer Zakaria, Jenalyn Castro, Omar Alhasanat, Khalil Al Ismail, Naser Al Ansari, Manal Hamed
• Improving antimicrobial prescribing practice for sore throat symptoms in a general practice setting (27 April, 2017)

  Mohammad Razai, Kamal Hussain
• Increasing Patient Safety Event Reporting in an Emergency Medicine Residency (27 April, 2017)

  Sven Steen, Cassie Jaeger, Lindsay Price, David Griffen
• Reducing returns to theatre for neck of femur fracture patients (27 April, 2017)

  Selina Graham, Mark Dahill, Derek Robinson
• A Unified Electronic Tool for CPR and Emergency Treatment Escalation Plans Improves Communication and Early Collaborative Decision Making for Acute Hospital Admissions (25 April, 2017)

  Mae Johnson, Martin Whyte, Robert Loveridge, Richard Yorke, Shairana Naleem
• Gout in primary care: Can we improve patient outcomes? (25 April, 2017)

  Jacqueline Callear, Georgina Blakey, Alexandra Callear, Linda Sloan
• A Quality Improvement Approach to Standardization and Sustainability of the Hand-off Process (6 April, 2017)

  Craig Fryman, Carine Hamo, Siddharth Raghavan, Nirvani Goolsarran
• Improving Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infection Rates in the Medical Units (6 April, 2017)

  Haytham Taha, Salama J. Raji, Abeer Khallaf, Seham Abu Hija, Raji Mathew, Hanan Rashed, Christelle Du Plessis, Zaytoen Allie, Samer Ellahham
• Hypokalaemia: Addressing human factors and improving education around prescription and administration of Intravenous(IV) Potassium infusion in Trauma and Orthopaedics (31 March, 2017)

  Vanushia Thirumal, Gavin Love
• Chasing the Golden Hour – Lessons learned from improving initial neutropenic sepsis management. (31 March, 2017)

  Caroline Forde, Paula Scullin
• Improving Bisphosphonate Infusion Monitoring at Haematology Medical Day Unit (31 March, 2017)

  Michal Wen Sheue Ong, Lydia Jones
• Improving the safety of chemotherapy prescribing in oncology through the introduction of an assessment proforma (31 March, 2017)

  Paula Scullin, Olivia Devlin, Caroline Forde
• Elimination of Emergency Department Medication Errors Due To Estimated Weights (27 March, 2017)

  Mary Greenwalt, David Griffen, Jim Wilkerson
• Improving Outpatient Clinic Experience for Core Medical Trainees (27 March, 2017)

  Natalie King, Catherine Zhu
• Systems for physical health care for mental health patients in the community: different approaches to improve patient care and safety in an Early Intervention in Psychosis Service (20 March, 2017)

  Josie Mouko, Rebecca Sullivan
• Electronic Printed Ward Round Proformas: Freeing Up Doctors' Time (20 March, 2017)

  Darren Fernandes, Philip Eneje
• A multifaceted approach to improving the quality of ENT Emergency Clinic referrals (20 March, 2017)

  Chloe Swords, Laura Leach, Anand Kasbekar, Piyush Jani
• Introduction of a Microsoft Excel-based unified electronic weekend handover document in Acute and General Medicine in a DGH: aims, outcomes and challenges (16 March, 2017)

  Pablo Kostelec, Pietro Emanuele Garbelli, Pietro Emanuele Garbelli
• Early Aspirin administration post Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery – Changing hospital culture through a two-cycled audit (10 March, 2017)

  Shefali Parikh, Justin Ratnasingham
• Identifying, highlighting and reducing polypharmacy in a UK hospice inpatient unit using improvement Science methods (10 March, 2017)

  Alison Phippen, Jennie Pickard, Douglas Steinke, Matt Cope, Dai Roberts
• Impact of health portal enrolment with email reminders at an academic rheumatology clinic (7 March, 2017)

  Arielle Mendel, Shirley Chow
• Successful emergency department interventions that reduce time to antibiotics in febrile pediatric cancer patients (7 March, 2017)

  Sandra Spencer, MIchele Nypaver, Katherine Hebert, Christopher Benner, Rachel Stanley, Daniel Cohen, Alexander Rogers, Jason Goldstick, Prashant Mahajan
• Reducing falls in a care home (1 March, 2017)

  Rosie Cooper
• Improving Surgical and Anaesthesia Practice: Review of the Use of the WHO Safe Surgery Checklist in Felege Hiwot Referral Hospital, Ethiopia (1 March, 2017)

  Ryan Ellis, Ahmad Izzuddin Mohamad Nor, Iona Pimentil, Zebenaye Bitew, Jolene Moore
• Knowledge is Power. A quality improvement project to increase patient understanding of their hospital stay (1 March, 2017)

  Eleanor Nicholson Thomas, Lloyd Edwards, Paul McArdle
• Improving theatre turnaround time (10 February, 2017)

  Daniel Fletcher, David Edwards, Stephen Tolchard, Richard Baker, James Berstock
• Health Education and Activity – Lessening The Inequalities in mental health (HEA – LTI mental health) (10 February, 2017)

  Georgia Richmond, Conor Kenny, Jabed Ahmed, Lucy Stephenson, jamie lindsay, Patrick Earls, Donncha Mullin, Howard Ryland
• Optimizing the electronic health record to standardize administration and documentation of nutritional supplements (8 February, 2017)

  Sandra W. Citty, Amir Kamel, Cynthia Garvan, Lee Marlowe, Lynn Westhoff
• Improving consent form documentation and introduction of procedure-specific labels in a district general hospital (8 February, 2017)

  Stefan Bajada, Samuel Dwamena, Zabihullah Abdul, Rhodri Williams, Owain Ennis
• Adopting and sustaining a Virtual Fracture Clinic model in the District Hospital setting – a quality improvement approach (6 February, 2017)

  Kartik Logishetty, Soosainathan Subramanyam
• Speeding up laboratory test reporting in Medical Emergency and Cardiac Arrest calls: a quality improvement project (2 February, 2017)

  Mohammed Al-Talib, Isla Leslie
• Making an IMPAKT; Improving care of Chronic Kidney Disease patients in the community through collaborative working and utilizing Information Technology (27 January, 2017)

  Gang Xu, Rupert Major, David Shepherd, Nigel Brunskill
• Making safer preoperative arrangements for patients using vitamin K antagonists (27 January, 2017)

  Joris van Fessem, Jessica Willems, Marieke Kruip, Sanne Hoeks, Robert Jan Stolker
• Improving physician's hand over among oncology staff using standardized communication tool (27 January, 2017)

  Ashwaq Alolayan, Mohammad Alkaiyat, Yosra Ali, Mona Alshami, Khaled Al-Surimi, Abdul-Rahman Jazieh
• The e-CRABEL score: an updated method for auditing medical records (16 January, 2017)

  Tharsika Myuran, Oliver Turner, Bijan Ben Doostdar, Bryony Lovett
• Improving visual assessment documentation in patients with periorbital trauma through an eye assessment teaching session and a proforma sticker (16 January, 2017)

  Tharsika Myuran