Table of contents

BMJ Quality Improvement Report

• Initiative to improve the cardiogenic safety of antipsychotic medication in community mental health patients (14 December, 2017)

  Katherine Margaret Parks, Fiona Donnelly, Jane Smithies
• Using the plan-do-study-act approach to improve inpatient colonoscopy preparation (3 December, 2017)

  Sardar Musa Shah-Khan, Jeremy Cumberledge, Gorman Joel Reynolds
• Improving OSA screening and diagnosis in patients with hypertension in an academic safety net primary care clinic: quality improvement project (25 November, 2017)

  Smita Y Bakhai, Mansi Nigam, Musa Saeed, Amita Krishnan, Jessica L Reynolds
• Improving service user self-management: development and implementation of a strategy for the Richmond Response and Rehabilitation Team (25 November, 2017)

  Julie Sanders, Joanne M Fitzpatrick
• Prevention of acute kidney injury through accurate fluid balance monitoring (25 November, 2017)

  Andrew Davies, Seema Srivastava, William Seligman, Lorraine Motuel, Vardeep Deogan, Shaza Ahmed, Nicholas Howells
• Reducing hypothermia in newborns admitted to a neonatal care unit in a large academic hospital in New Delhi, India (20 November, 2017)

  Vikram Datta, Arvind Saili, Srishti Goel, Ankur Sooden, Mahtab Singh, Sonali Vaid, Nigel Livesley
• Patient-centred improvement to repeat prescribing using the Always Event concept (20 November, 2017)

  Katherine Anne Grosset, Elaine Deary, Nancy El-Farargy
• Improving the workflow of nursing assistants at a general hospital in Japan (20 November, 2017)

  Hiroki Isono, Sayuri Suzuki, Jun Ogura, Junji Haruta, Tetsuhiro Maeno
• How Kabarole Hospital in western Uganda saved mothers’ lives through team-based problem-solving (12 November, 2017)

  Paul Isabirye, Monica Abesiga
• Optimisation of intravenous fluid prescribing: framework for changing practice through education and audits (12 November, 2017)

  James Forryan, Vinita Mishra
• Improving venous thromboembolism risk assessment rates in a tertiary urology department (12 November, 2017)

  Elizabeth Mabey, Samiha Ismail, Falguni Tailor
• Collaborative approach to reducing cardiac arrests in an acute medical unit (12 November, 2017)

  Calum McGregor, Sanjiv Chohan, Jonathon O’Reilly
• Monitoring long-term oral corticosteroids (8 November, 2017)

  Lewis Mundell, Roberta Lindemann, James Douglas
• Reducing bed occupancy and length of stay on a functional older adults’ psychiatric ward (8 November, 2017)

  Azad Cadinouche, Auzewell Chitewe, Kehkashan Khan, Sylvester Lamin, Kajanesh Ratneswaran, Amar Shah, Marco Aurelio
• London Transfer Project: improving handover documentation from long-term care homes to hospital emergency departments (8 November, 2017)

  Joseph Carson, Stephanie Gottheil, Alan Gob, Sherri Lawson
• Improving cardiac operating room to intensive care unit handover using a standardised handover process (6 November, 2017)

  Yehoshua Gleicher, Jeffrey David Mosko, Irene McGhee
• Strengthening value-based medication management in a free clinic for the uninsured: Quality interventions aimed at reducing costs and enhancing adherence (31 October, 2017)

  Robert K Arao, Michelle Y O‘Connor, Thomas Barrett, Leela Chockalingam, Farrah Khan, Anirudh Kumar, Andrew Leader, Emily Leven, John R Power, Benjamin Shuham, Robert Rifkin, David Thomas, Yasmin Meah, Brijen J Shah
• Fall risk and prevention agreement: engaging patients and families with a partnership for patient safety (31 October, 2017)

  Cassandra Vonnes, Darcy Wolf
• Improving the patient booking service to reduce the number of missed appointments at East London NHS Foundation Trust Community Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy Service (31 October, 2017)

  Elizabeth Tan, Amar Shah, Warren De Souza, Mark Harrison, Chris Chettur, Maimoona Onathukattil, Michelle Smart, Marlon Mata, Auzewell Chitewe, Emma Binley
• Nurse-managed transitional beds as a method of increasing geographic placement of an academic inpatient service (31 October, 2017)

  Christopher W Goodman
• Effectiveness of a multi-component quality improvement intervention on rates of hyperglycaemia (26 October, 2017)

  Thérèse Franco, Barry Aaronson, Laurel Brown, Craig Blackmore, Stephen Rupp, Grace Lee
• Evaluation of a newly introduced tonsillectomy operation record for the analysis of regional post-tonsillectomy bleed data: a quality improvement project at the London North West Healthcare NHS Trust (26 October, 2017)

  Matt Lechner, Deepak Chandrasekharan, Rohan Vithlani, Liam Sutton, Carly Grandidge, Behrad Elmiyeh
• Improving handover between triage and locality wards in a large mental health trust (26 October, 2017)

  Alice Debelle, Mark Dashwood, Louisa Bird, Ranga Rao, Thomas Reilly
• Improving time efficiency gathering equipment in the treatment room (26 October, 2017)

  Yesim Karapinar, Ali Habib, Hannah Sawyerr
• Primary care scribes: writing a new story for safety net clinics (25 October, 2017)

  Christina Lowry, Katherine Orr, Brett Embry, Michael Nguyen, Amy Petersen, Catherine James, Keith Seidel, Neda Ratanawongsa
• Reducing patient mortality, length of stay and readmissions through machine learning-based sepsis prediction in the emergency department, intensive care unit and hospital floor units (25 October, 2017)

  Andrea McCoy, Ritankar Das
• Electronic medical record alert improves HCV testing for baby boomers in primary care setting: adults born during 1945–1965 (21 October, 2017)

  Eyad Al-hihi, Caylin Shankweiler, David Stricklen, Cheryl Gibson, Winston Dunn
• A quality improvement project to improve the Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) sepsis bundle compliance rate in a large healthcare system (21 October, 2017)

  Robert A Raschke, Robert H Groves, Hargobind S Khurana, Nidhi Nikhanj, Ethel Utter, Didi Hartling, Brenda Stoffer, Kristina Nunn, Shona Tryon, Michelle Bruner, Maria Calleja, Steven C Curry
• Improving referral to psychological support unit at Saudi Red Crescent Authority in Riyadh Region (21 October, 2017)

  Ahmad Yousif Alzahrani, Sabri abd Allah Mahmod, Thamer Mohammad Bakhamis, Khaled Al-Surimi
• Improving best possible medication history with vulnerable patients at an urban safety net academic hospital using pharmacy technicians (21 October, 2017)

  Shobha Sadasivaiah, David E Smith, Seth Goldman, Neda Ratanawongsa
• Using ‘Active Signposting’ to streamline general practitioner workload in two London-based practices (21 October, 2017)

  Faisal Siddiqui, Baljinder Sidhu, Mohammad Aumran Tahir
• Improving care collaboration for NICU patients to decrease length of stay and readmission rate (21 October, 2017)

  Cherrie D Welch, Jennifer Check, T Michael O’Shea
• Reducing radiation hazard opportunities in neonatal unit: quality improvement in radiation safety practices (21 October, 2017)

  Priyantha Edison, Pi Sun Chang, Guan Hong Toh, Li Na Lee, Sarat Kumar Sanamandra, Varsha Atul Shah
• Improving the rates of electronic results acknowledgement at a tertiary eye care centre (18 October, 2017)

  Val Phua, Benjamin Au, Yu Qiang Soh, Rahat Husain
• Improving a process to obtain hepatitis B serology among patients treated with infliximab at a large urban children’s hospital (18 October, 2017)

  M Raphaelle Jean, Ann Weaver, Teresa Mastin-Diebold, Krista Kissinger, Emily A Smitherman, Leslie Favier, Lara Danziger-Isakov, Elizabeth Williams, Rebecca C Brady, Jennifer Huggins, Lee A Denson, Shehzad A Saeed, Pamela Morgan, Dana Michelle Hines Dykes
• Preventing cerebral palsy in preterm labour: a multiorganisational quality improvement approach to the adoption and spread of magnesium sulphate for neuroprotection (12 October, 2017)

  Anna Burhouse, Charlotte Lea, Stephen Ray, Hannah Bailey, Ruth Davies, Hannah Harding, Rachel Howard, Sharon Jordan, Noshin Menzies, Sarah White, Kathryn Phillips, Karen Luyt
• Improving the ability to review preoperative radiographs intraoperatively in trauma and orthopaedic theatres at Lancashire teaching hospitals (12 October, 2017)

  Christopher Jump
• Improving monitoring of diabetic complications in home care patients (10 October, 2017)

  Wahila Alam, Shirmila Syamala, Hanadi Al Hamad, Sybil George, Noorudeen Kunnunmal, Fatma Abdelfattah, Sunita Chinamma, Essa Al-Sulaiti
• Improving combined contraceptive pill/oral contraceptives prescribing in general practice (9 October, 2017)

  Sophie Russell, Helen Wiles
• Improving the completeness of acute kidney injury follow-up information in hospital electronic discharge letters (9 October, 2017)

  Michael Edward Reschen, Emma Vaux
• Improving access to City and Hackney adult mental health services (24 September, 2017)

  David Zekria, Amar Shah, Yunus Malik, Deeksha Mehta, Forid Alom, Amrus Ali, Charles Kennedy-Scott, Andrew Horobin
• A local quality initiative to improve follow-up times for patients with heart failure (24 September, 2017)

  Toni Schofield, Juan Duero Posada, Farid Foroutan, Ana Carolina Alba, Michael McDonald, Meredith Linghorne
• The game of telephone: a sustained, low-cost, quality improvement initiative to enhance communication between patients and their resident physician (17 September, 2017)

  Amanda Schnell, Sarah Stolte, Melissa Taylor, Jane Broxterman
• Improving transitions of care: a resident-driven approach to address delays in patient care during the direct admission process (17 September, 2017)

  Nirvani Goolsarran, Li Huang, Lorenzo Ottaviano
• Improving the care of patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) (4 September, 2017)

  Ahsan Aftab Khan, Edward F Nash, Joanna Whitehouse, Rifat Rashid
• Reducing DNACPR complaints to zero: designing and implementing a treatment escalation plan using quality improvement methodology (4 September, 2017)

  Elizabeth Shermon, Laura Munglani, Sarah Oram, Linda William, Julian Abel
• Improving health maintenance supervision in a paediatric IBD clinic (31 August, 2017)

  Dana M H Dykes, Marie Raphaelle Jean, Pamela Morgan, Denise Hill, Elizabeth Williams, Lisa Opipari-Arigan, Jennifer Huggins, Shehzad A Saeed
• Electronic display board in operating theatres for easy patient identification (31 August, 2017)

  Si Ching Lim, Adrian Jit Hin Koh, Edward Wing Hong Poon
• A quality improvement approach to cognitive assessment on hospice admission: could we use the 4AT or Short CAM? (31 August, 2017)

  Lucy Baird, Juliet Anne Spiller
• Improving access to the KIS in secondary care (29 August, 2017)

  Charlie Christopher Hall, Carey Lunan, Anne Finucane, Juliet Anne Spiller
• Improving MRCP PACES pass rates through the introduction of a regional multifaceted support framework (29 August, 2017)

  Richard Jerrom, Tayeba Roper, Narasimha Murthy
• Restructuring hospitalist work schedules to improve care timeliness and efficiency (9 August, 2017)

  Monika Wells, Evan Coates, Barbara Williams, Craig Blackmore
• Improving waiting times in the orthopaedic outpatient clinic (9 August, 2017)

  Julia Street, Wajeeha Khan, Aureola Tong, Vasudev Shanbhag
• Making the experience of elective surgery better (9 August, 2017)

  Tajinere Fregene, Sarah Wintle, Vishal Venkat Raman, Holly Edmond, Shoaib Rizvi
• Implementing the WHO Safe Childbirth Checklist: lessons learnt on a quality improvement initiative to improve mother and newborn care at Gobabis District Hospital, Namibia (9 August, 2017)

  Leonard Kabongo, Jonathon Gass, Beatrice Kivondo, Nabihah Kara, Katherine Semrau, Lisa R Hirschhorn