Table of contents

BMJ Quality Improvement report

• Increasing colorectal cancer screening orders using unlicensed assistive personnel (29 June, 2019)

  Kanako Ishida, Erin Weiss, Summer A Kee, Charles T Yingling
• Interventional bundle for venous thromboembolism prevention: ensuring quality and effectiveness (21 June, 2019)

  Susan Shapiro, Anna Dunnigan, Sarah Keen, Penney Clarke
• Improving transition outcomes in adolescents with permanent hearing loss (21 June, 2019)

  Chrysa Spyridakou, Surangi Mendis, Daniel DeVal
• Quality improvement measures for early detection of severe intravenous infiltration in infants (19 June, 2019)

  Subhasri Lakshmi Sangam
• Shoulder Reduction Bench Project: improving care for patients with shoulder dislocations (14 June, 2019)

  Philip Dowson
• Fast-track pathway for elective caesarean section: a quality improvement initiative to promote day 1 discharge (12 June, 2019)

  Sarah Joanne Bowden, William Dooley, Jennifer Hanrahan, Chidimma Kanu, Suni Halder, Caroline Cormack, Sabrina O'Dwyer, Natasha Singh
• Reducing the rare event: lessons from the implementation of a ventilator bundle (12 June, 2019)

  Maryanne Matinee Chumpia, David A Ganz, Evelyn T Chang, Shelly S de Peralta
• Financial incentives linked to quality improvement projects in Swedish primary care: a model for improving quality of care (12 June, 2019)

  Rita Fernholm, Eva Arvidsson, Björn Wettermark
• Improving the accuracy of digital templating: achieving success through stakeholder management (12 June, 2019)

  Hammad Parwaiz, Boris Aliaga Crespo, Joshua Filer, Ashley Thorpe, Rosie Seatter, Dominique Suzanne Faulkner, Harvey Sandhu
• Successful prospective quality improvement programme for the identification and management of patients at risk of sepsis in hospital (12 June, 2019)

  Kevin Gallagher, Nicky Blackwell, Ben Thomas, Matthew Trail, Lorraine Stewart, Ross Paterson
• Improving the prehospital management of ST elevation myocardial infarction: a national quality improvement initiative (2 June, 2019)

  Ian Howard, Nicholas Castle, Loua Al Shaikh, Robert Owen
• Improving oral health through dental fluoride varnish application in a primary care paediatric practice (31 May, 2019)

  Sathyanarayan Sudhanthar, Jillian Lapinski, Jane Turner, Jonathan Gold, Yakov Sigal, Kripa Thakur, Olga Napolova, Michael Stiffler
• Improving the waiting times within a hospice breathlessness service (29 May, 2019)

  Caroline Sime, Stuart Milligan, Kevin Donal Rooney
• Reducing two-unit red cell transfusions on the oncology ward: a choosing wisely initiative (29 May, 2019)

  Alan Gob, Anurag Bhalla, Laura Aseltine, Ian Chin-Yee
• Quality improvement project aimed at improving the reliability of spontaneous awakening trials in a district general intensive care unit (24 May, 2019)

  Donna Ferraioli, Laura Ferguson, Martin Carberry
• Effectiveness of standardised preoperative assessment and patient instructions on admission blood glucose for patients with diabetes undergoing orthopaedic surgery at a tertiary referral hospital (23 May, 2019)

  Thérèse Franco, Stephen Rupp, Barbara Williams, Craig Blackmore
• More than pills: alternative adjunct therapies to improve comfort in hospitalised patients (9 May, 2019)

  Megan Moore, Maria Schuler, Samantha Wilson, Morgan Whisenhunt, Ashleigh Adams, Britany Leiker, Tori Butler, Caylin Shankweiler, Matthew Jones, Cheryl Gibson
• How incremental video training did not guarantee implementation due to fluctuating population prevalence (4 May, 2019)

  Peter Vink, Bart Torensma, Cees Lucas, Markus W Hollmann, Ivo N van Schaik, Hester Vermeulen
• Improving patient portal enrolment in an academic resident continuity clinic: quality improvement made simple (25 April, 2019)

  Courtney Rhudy, Jane Broxterman, Sara Stewart, Victoria Weaver, Cheryl Gibson, Caylin Shankweiler, Branden Comfort, Becky Lowry
• Improving interventions for parents of children and young people with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in CAMHS (25 April, 2019)

  Laura Ann Roughan, Jenny Ruth Parker, Louise Mercer
• Process improvement for follow-up radiology report recommendations of lung nodules (24 April, 2019)

  Philip S Lim, Doron Schneider, Jonathan Sternlieb, Michel Taupin, Nicholas Sich, Joan Dian, Eileen Jameson, Bryan Frambes, Sharon Taylor
• Appropriate utilisation of cardiac telemetry monitoring: a quality improvement project (24 April, 2019)

  Ky B Stoltzfus, Maharshi Bhakta, Caylin Shankweiler, Rebecca R Mount, Cheryl Gibson
• Improving the diagnostics of tuberculosis and drug resistance with Xpert MTB/RIF in a district general hospital in Sierra Leone: a quality improvement project (24 April, 2019)

  David Oliver Hamilton, Jonathan Vas Nunes, Martin Peter Grobusch
• Using near-miss events to improve MRI safety in a large academic centre (15 April, 2019)

  Nirvani Goolsarran, Jose Martinez, Christine Garcia
• Establishing a tele-clinic service for kidney transplant recipients through a patient-codesigned quality improvement project (8 April, 2019)

  Udaya Prabhakar Udayaraj, Oliver Watson, Yoav Ben-Shlomo, Maria Langdon, Karen Anderson, Albert Power, Christopher Dudley, David Evans, Anna Burhouse
• Woman-Centred Induction of Labour (the WOCIL project) (8 April, 2019)

  Sabrina O’Dwyer, Anna Clark, Hayley Taggart, Muna Noori
• Improving patient flow in a regional anaesthesia block room (8 April, 2019)

  Brigid Brown, Ekta Khemani, Cheng Lin, Kevin Armstrong
• Improving assessment of children with suspected respiratory tract infection in general practice (8 April, 2019)

  Cheng Chen, Ruth Crowley