Table of contents

BMJ Quality Improvement report

• Electronic prescribing: introducing a stat optional dose to improve time to antibiotic on the acute medical unit (19 December, 2018)

  Thomas Robert Edward Jones, Kim Nurse
• Care bundles for acute kidney injury: a balanced accounting of the impact of implementation in an acute medical unit (18 December, 2018)

  Rachael Logan, Peter Davey, Alison Davie, Suzanne Grant, Vicki Tully, Achyut Valluri, Samira Bell
• Hepatitis Service Provision at HMP Birmingham: Progressing a Previous Service Improvement Plan (18 December, 2018)

  Tooba Arif
• Improving antimicrobial stewardship in the outpatient department of a district general hospital in Sierra Leone (16 December, 2018)

  David Hamilton, Ian Bugg
• Improving analgesia prescription for trauma inpatients (16 December, 2018)

  Sophie Stanger, Mark Dahill, Charlotte Hillary, Robert Whitham, Andrew Tasker
• DC cardioversion of atrial fibrillation and atrial flutter in the emergency department: improving specialist protocols for the generalist (1 December, 2018)

  Alexander Carpenter, Sabrina Sargent
• Reducing acute kidney injury incidence and progression in a large teaching hospital (26 November, 2018)

  Lynne Sykes, Smeeta Sinha, Janet Hegarty, Emma Flanagan, Liam Doyle, Chedia Hoolickin, Lewis Edwards, Paul Ferris, Elizabeth Lamerton, Dimitrios Poulikakos, Darren Green, Robert Nipah
• Training: improving antenatal detection and outcomes of congenital heart disease (24 November, 2018)

  Orhan Uzun, Julia Kennedy, Colin Davies, Anthony Goodwin, Nerys Thomas, Delyth Rich, Andrea Thomas, David Tucker, Bryan Beattie, Michael J Lewis
• Reducing inappropriate antibiotic prescribing in upper respiratory tract infection in a primary care setting in Kolkata, India (20 November, 2018)

  Amy Dehn Lunn
• Testing of the ‘Always Events’ approach to improve the patient experience in the emergency department (19 November, 2018)

  David John Lowe, Cameron Kay, Dagshagini Taylor, Nicola Littlewood, Scott Hepburn, Paul Bowie
• A team approach to the introduction of safe early mobilisation in an adult critical care unit (10 November, 2018)

  Sanjiv Chohan, Sara Ash, Lorraine Senior
• Preoperative fasting in the department of plastic surgery (10 November, 2018)

  Andrew Davies, Wei Sheng Pang, Timothy Fowler, Ffion Dewi, Thomas Wright
• Improving resuscitation decisions: a trust-wide initiative (1 November, 2018)

  Michael G Fadel, Krishan Parekh, Paul Hayden, Priya Krishnan
• Better care: reducing length of stay and bed occupancy on an older adult psychiatric ward (1 November, 2018)

  Katherine Adlington, Juliette Brown, Laura Ralph, Alan Clarke, Tim Bhoyroo, Michael Henderson, Farai Boora, Marco Aurelio, Waleed Fawzi
• Faecal immunochemical testing implementation to increase colorectal cancer screening in primary care (25 October, 2018)

  Smita Bakhai, Gaurav Ahluwalia, Naren Nallapeta, Amanpreet Mangat, Jessica L Reynolds
• Improving communication of patient issues on transfer out of intensive care (21 October, 2018)

  Jessica Caroline Roberts, Lizzie Johnston-Walker, Kim Parker, Katherine Townend, James Bickley
• STI initiative: Improving testing for sexually transmitted infections in women (15 October, 2018)

  Ryan Christopher Chadwick, Kathleen McGregor, Paula Sneath, Joshua Rempel, Betty Li Qun He, Allison Brown, Grant Seifred, John McAuley, Ralph John Kamatovic, Muhanad Al-Husari, Salim Ahmed, Monica Bertolo, Doug Munkley, Maynard Luterman
• Can we improve the prescribing and delivery of oxygen on a respiratory ward in accordance with new British Thoracic Society oxygen guidelines? (15 October, 2018)

  Aklak Choudhury, Gregor Young, Beshoy Reyad, Nirali Shah, Radhea Rahman
• Sustainable approach to reducing unnecessary combined biochemistry tests on a paediatric cardiology ward (15 October, 2018)

  William Regan, Daljit Hothi, Kevin Jones
• Challenges in reducing TIA clinic waiting times from 9 to 3 days in an acute Welsh hospital (15 October, 2018)

  Manju Krishnan, Andrew Jones, Tal Anjum, Srikanth Chenna, Peter Michael Edward Slade, Karen Ward, Sarah Yeap
• Improving comprehensive care for patients with diabetes (15 October, 2018)

  Tamar L Kutz, Jameson M Roszhart, Marshall Hale, Virginia Dolan, Gerald Suchomski, Cassie Jaeger
• Using the Model for Improvement to implement the Critical-Care Pain Observation Tool in an adult intensive care unit (9 October, 2018)

  Mairi Mascarenhas, Michelle Beattie, Michelle Roxburgh, John MacKintosh, Noreen Clarke, Devjit Srivastava
• Postpartum quality improvement strategy for increasing long-acting contraception uptake at a University Hospital in Haiti (3 October, 2018)

  Meredith Casella Jean-Baptiste, Stephanie Louis, Christophe Millien, Erwine Dina Jeune, Ornella Sainterant, Jean Paul Joseph
• Improving anticoagulation of patients with an implantable left ventricular assist device (2 October, 2018)

  William Sage, Amulya Gottiparthy, Paul Lincoln, Steven S L Tsui, Stephen J Pettit