Table of contents

BMJ Quality Improvement report

• E-referrals: improving the routine interspecialty inpatient referral system (28 September, 2018)

  Emma Shephard, Claire Stockdale, Felix May, Alistair Brown, Hannah Lewis, Sara Jabri, Daniel Robertson, Victoria Moss, Rob Bethune
• Implementing delayed cord clamping in premature infants (21 September, 2018)

  Alfonso Francisco Pantoja, Ann Ryan, Michelle Feinberg, Mark DeMarie, John Britton, Ellina Liptsen, Maggie Chen, Jordan Crow
• Effect of a pulmonary nodule fact sheet on patient anxiety and knowledge: a quality improvement initiative (14 September, 2018)

  Matthew T Koroscil, Mitchell H Bowman, Michael J Morris, Andrew J Skabelund, Andrew M Hersh
• Optimisation of hyperemesis gravidarum management through an emergency department setting (8 September, 2018)

  Graham Skalley, John Denny, Eve Allen, Shwetha Rao
• Decreasing birth asphyxia: utility of statistical process control in a low-resource setting (4 September, 2018)

  Mariya Mukhtar-Yola, Lamidi Isah Audu, Oluyinka Olaniyan, Henry T Akinbi, Adekunle Dawodu, Edward F Donovan
• ‘CPR for Feet’ care bundle to improve foot assessment in inpatient diabetes (4 September, 2018)

  Rhea O’Regan, Ross MacDonald, James G Boyle, Katherine A Hughes, Joyce McKenzie
• ELECTIVIST: a novel system to improve elective caesarean section booking (29 August, 2018)

  Katherine Robertson, Joe Clacey, Rhiannon D’Arcy, Neveen Khan, Aparna Reddy
• Process improvement for a complex dual medical procedure (21 August, 2018)

  Wade Anthony Weigel, Michael Gluck, Andrew S Ross, Otto S Lin, Barbara L Williams, Craig C Blackmore
• Improvement in staff compliance with a safety standard checklist in endoscopy in a tertiary centre (21 August, 2018)

  Matthew Charles Mason, Rebecca Katie Griggs, Rachel Withecombe, Eunice Yun Xing, Charlotte Sandberg, Matthew Keith Molyneux
• Knowledge translation and process improvement interventions increased pain assessment documentation in a large quaternary paediatric post-anaesthesia care unit (21 August, 2018)

  Daniel Stocki, Conor McDonnell, Gail Wong, Gloria Kotzer, Kelly Shackell, Fiona Campbell
• TIME to think about delirium: improving detection and management on the acute medical unit (13 August, 2018)

  Yehudit Bauernfreund, Matthew Butler, Sumathi Ragavan, Elizabeth L Sampson
• Improving access to Early Intervention in Psychosis (EIP): the 2-week wait for cancer comes to psychosis (13 August, 2018)

  Kirit Singh, Fatima Ghazi, Rebecca White, Benedicta Sarfo-Adu, Peter Carter
• Improving access to services through a collaborative learning system at East London NHS Foundation Trust (30 July, 2018)

  Amar Shah, Auzewell Chitewe, Emma Binley, Forid Alom, James Innes
• Increasing contraception use among women receiving teratogenic medications in a rheumatology clinic (25 July, 2018)

  Rebecca E Sadun, Melissa A Wells, Stephen J Balevic, Victoria Lackey, Erica J Aldridge, Nicholas Holdgagte, Samya Mohammad, Lisa G Criscione-Schreiber, Megan E B Clowse, Mamata Yanamadala
• Making the weekend work: a local quality improvement project to establish and improve the quality of weekend handover (25 July, 2018)

  Rosalie Amanda Heller, Lisi Hu
• Optimising the mandatory reporting process for drivers admitted to an inpatient stroke rehabilitation unit (25 July, 2018)

  Shannon L MacDonald, Pamela L Joseph, Ida J Cavaliere, Mark Theodore Bayley, Alexander Lo
• Focused educational intervention improves but may not sustain knowledge regarding falls management (23 July, 2018)

  Punith Kempegowda, Joht Singh Chandan, Richard Hutton, Lauren Brown, Wendy Madden, June Webb, Alison Doyle, Jonathan Treml
• Development and implementation of a structured ward round in acute adult psychiatry (23 July, 2018)

  Anna Rebecca Mattinson, Sarah Jane Cheeseman
• Do ward round stickers improve surgical ward round? A quality improvement project in a high-volume general surgery department (21 July, 2018)

  Jimmy Ng, Ahmed Abdelhadi, Peter Waterland, Jonathan Swallow, Deborah Nicol, Steve Pandey, Miguel Zilvetti, Ahmed Karim
• Comparative performance reports in anaesthesia: impact on clinical outcomes and acceptability to clinicians (21 July, 2018)

  Thomas Collyer, Martyn Robertson, Thomas Lawton, Alice Rothwell
• Making surgical wards safer for patients with diabetes: reducing hypoglycaemia and insulin errors (21 July, 2018)

  Aminder Singh, Angela Adams, Bethany Dudley, Eliza Davison, Lauren Jones, Lucy Wales
• Implementing a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs communication bundle in remote and rural pharmacies and dispensing practices (21 July, 2018)

  Clare Morrison, Tracy Beauchamp, Helen MacDonald, Michelle Beattie
• Effectiveness of a submassive pulmonary embolism protocol to standardise patient evaluation and treatment (21 July, 2018)

  Kelly Galanos, Cassie Jaeger, Kevin Coakley, Peter White, David Griffen
• Education and coaching to optimise blood culture volumes: continuous quality improvement in microbiology (21 July, 2018)

  Claudia R Libertin, Keith A Sacco, Joy H Peterson
• Introducing an electronic tracking tool into daily multidisciplinary discharge rounds on a medicine service: a quality improvement project to reduce length of stay (21 July, 2018)

  Nicholas Meo, Evan Paul, Christopher Wilson, Janice Powers, Marinette Magbual, Kari Mae Miles
• Does a multidisciplinary approach have a beneficial effect on the development of a structured patient handover process between acute surgical wards in one of Scotland’s largest teaching hospitals? (21 July, 2018)

  Neil Ramsay, Gianluca Maresca, Vicki Tully, Kevin Campbell
• PROGRESS: the PROMISE governance framework to decrease coercion in mental healthcare (16 July, 2018)

  Chiara Lombardo, Tine Van Bortel, Adam P Wagner, Emma Kaminskiy, Ceri Wilson, Theeba Krishnamoorthy, Sarah Rae, Lorna Rouse, Peter Brian Jones, Manaan Kar Ray
• Use of a safe procedure checklist in the cardiac catheterisation laboratory (13 July, 2018)

  Alistair C Lindsay, Jeremy Bishop, Katie Harron, Simon Davies, Elizabeth Haxby
• Improving postpartum care in a large hospital in New Delhi, India (12 July, 2018)

  Mona Chopra, Neerja Arora, Shailja Sinha, Silvia Holschneider, Nigel Livesley
• EMR-based handoff tool improves completeness of internal medicine residents’ handoffs (11 July, 2018)

  Rebecca L Tisdale, Zac Eggers, Lisa Shieh
• Improving wait time from referral to opiate replacement therapy in a drug recovery service (6 July, 2018)

  Michelle Beattie, Gavin Hookway, Michael Perera, Suzy Calder, Carolyn Hunter-Rowe, Hugo van Woerden