Table of contents

BMJ Quality Improvement Report

• Implementation of Failure Mode and Effects Analysis to the specimens flow in a population-based colorectal cancer screening programme using immunochemical faecal occult blood tests: a quality improvement project in the Milan colorectal cancer screening programme (22 March, 2018)

  Silvia Deandrea, Enrica Tidone, Aldo Bellini, Luigi Bisanti, Nico Gerardo Leonardo, Anna Rita Silvestri, Dario Consonni
• Improving driving advice provided to cardiology patients on discharge (18 March, 2018)

  Amoolya Vusirikala, Mark Backhouse, Sarah Schimansky
• Enhancing the performance of gastrointestinal tumour board by improving documentation (14 March, 2018)

  Roaa Saleh Alsuhaibani, Hajer Alzahrani, Ghada Algwaiz, Haneen Alfarhan, Ashwaq Alolayan, Nafisa Abdelhafiz, Yosra Ali, Abdul Rahman Jazieh
• Reducing the number of invalid surgical consents in the day surgery unit (14 March, 2018)

  Wesley Chong, Allan Chee Yang Fong, Yi Lin Yeo, Angie Puay Hong Ng, Eileen May Lin Neo, Veronica Li Ee Sam, Jessica Kai Jun Ong, Loh Huey Peng
• Improving routine outpatient monitoring for patients with sickle-cell disease on hydroxyurea (6 March, 2018)

  Joel Ward, Natasha Lewis, Dimitris A Tsitsikas
• ‘Take Ten’ improving the surgical post-take ward round: a quality improvement project (1 March, 2018)

  Danielle Alice Banfield, Carly Adamson, Amy Tomsett, James Povey, Tony Fordham, Sarah Kathryn Richards
• Multidisciplinary analysis of invasive meningococcal disease as a framework for continuous quality and safety improvement in regional Australia (7 February, 2018)

  Kathryn A Taylor, David N Durrheim, Tony Merritt, Peter Massey, John Ferguson, Nick Ryan, Carolyn Hullick
• Improving colorectal cancer referrals (20 January, 2018)

  Claire Gregory
• A quality improvement project aimed at adapting primary care to ensure the delivery of evidence-based psychotherapy for adult anxiety (9 January, 2018)

  Mark D Williams, Craig N Sawchuk, Nathan D Shippee, Kristin J Somers, Summer L Berg, Jay D Mitchell, Angela B Mattson, David J Katzelnick
• Ensuring adequate vascular access in patients with major trauma: a quality improvement initiative (9 January, 2018)

  Kevin Verhoeff, Rachelle Saybel, Pamela Mathura, Bonnie Tsang, Vanessa Fawcett, Sandy Widder
• Work efficiency improvement of >90% after implementation of an annual inpatient blood products administration consent form (9 January, 2018)

  Holly Lindsay, Saleh Bhar, Challice Bonifant, Sarah Sartain, Sarah B. Whittle, Youngna Lee-Kim, Mona D. Shah
• Sick Note to Fit Note: one trust’s project to improve usage by hospital clinicians (9 January, 2018)

  Amy Moran, Cathryn Mainwaring, Oliver Keane, Thomas Sanctuary, Kathryn Watson, Tunji Lasoye
• Integrating prevention and health promotion in a London prison (3 January, 2018)

  Adam John Finnie
• Improving the wait time to consultation at the emergency department (3 January, 2018)

  Yuzeng Shen, Lin Hui Lee