Table of contents

Quality Improvement report

• Improving hepatitis C screening and diagnosis in patients born between 1945 and 1965 in a safety-net primary care clinic (29 September, 2019)

  Smita Bakhai, Naren Nallapeta, Mohammad El-Atoum, Tenzin Arya, Jessica L Reynolds
• Impact of a pharmacist intervention at an intensive care rehabilitation clinic (27 September, 2019)

  Pamela MacTavish, Tara Quasim, Martin Shaw, Helen Devine, Malcolm Daniel, John Kinsella, Carl Fenelon, Rakesh Kishore, Theodore J Iwashyna, Joanne McPeake
• Streamlining workflows and redesigning job roles in the theatre sterile surgical unit (22 September, 2019)

  Brandon Lum, Hong Muay Png, Hock Lan Yap, Cindy Tan, Bixian Sun, Yen Hoon Law
• Reducing prolonged chemoradiation treatment times for cervical cancer (13 September, 2019)

  Lucas Vitzthum, Jianling Yuan, Daniel Jones, Anne Boldt, Kathryn Dusenbery
• Promoting low-flow anaesthesia and volatile anaesthetic agent choice (13 September, 2019)

  Louise A Carter, Molola Oyewole, Eleanor Bates, Kate Sherratt
• Write2me: using patient feedback to improve postconsultation urology clinic letters (11 September, 2019)

  Peter E Lonergan, Sanjith Gnanappiragasam, Elaine J Redmond, Fidelma Fitzpatrick, Deborah A McNamara
• Rapid cycle testing drives improved communication and satisfaction using in-person survey (4 September, 2019)

  Nicholas Anders Kuehnel, Andrea K Morrison, Catherine C Ferguson
• Improving medication optimisation in left ventricular systolic dysfunction after acute myocardial infarction (28 August, 2019)

  Paul Forsyth, Lynsey Moir, Iain Speirits, Steve McGlynn, Margaret Ryan, Anne Watson, Fiona Reid, Christopher Rush, Clare Murphy
• Improving adherence to lung cancer guidelines: a quality improvement project that uses chart review, audit and feedback approach (26 August, 2019)

  Abdulrahman Jazieh, Mohammad Omar Alkaiyat, Yosra Ali, Mohamed Ahmed Hashim, Nafisa Abdelhafiz, Ashwaq Al Olayan
• Quantitative stress-redistribution sequential imaging optimises MPI with the lowest dose of radiation per patient (24 August, 2019)

  Richard M Fleming, Matthew R Fleming, Tapan K Chaudhuri, Andrew McKusick
• Improving the quality of insulin prescribing for people with diabetes being discharged from hospital (24 August, 2019)

  Amie Bain, Jon Silcock, Sallianne Kavanagh, Gemma Quinn, Ines Fonseca
• Improving physical healthcare provided to psychiatric inpatients at an acute mental health trust (24 August, 2019)

  Shahnaz Hassan, Swetha Byravan, Hussain Al-Zubaidi
• Reducing pressure ulcers across multiple care settings using a collaborative approach (20 August, 2019)

  Julia Wood, Bob Brown, Annette Bartley, Andreia Margarida Batista Custódio Cavaco, Anthony Paul Roberts, Karla Santon, Susannah Cook
• Improving long-lasting insecticidal nets use in Kayange community of north-western Burundi: a pilot study exploring the use of quality improvement methodologies in low-resource community settings (20 August, 2019)

  Desire Habonimana, Gideon Nimako, Jabulani Ncayiyana, Gabriel Ndayisaba, Rohit Ramaswamy
• Deprescribing benzodiazepines among hospitalised older adults: quality improvement initiative (20 August, 2019)

  Frances Carr, Peter Tian, Jeffrey Chow, Jennifer Guzak, Jean Triscott, Pamela Mathura, Xing Sun, Bonnie Dobbs
• Introducing a reserve waiting list initiative for elective general surgery at a District General Hospital (19 August, 2019)

  Vaki Antoniou, Olivia Burke, Roland Fernandes
• Improving bone mineral density screening in patients with inflammatory bowel disease: a quality improvement report (19 August, 2019)

  Sardar Momin Shah-Khan, Jeremy Cumberledge, Sardar Musa Shah-Khan, Kelley Gannon, Justin T. Kupec
• Evidence-based practice ‘on-the-go’: using ViaTherapy as a tool to enhance clinical decision making in upper limb rehabilitation after stroke, a quality improvement initiative (19 August, 2019)

  Nicola J Hancock, Kathryn Collins, Charlie Dorer, Steven L Wolf, Mark Bayley, Valerie M Pomeroy
• Improving critical incident reporting in primary care through education and involvement (19 August, 2019)

  Beate Sigrid Müller, Martin Beyer, Tatjana Blazejewski, Dania Gruber, Hardy Müller, Ferdinand Michael Gerlach
• Medic One Pediatric (MOPed) cards: standardising paramedic paediatric resuscitation (19 August, 2019)

  Brandon Woods, Benjamin Lang, Carolyn Blayney, Lila O'Mahony, Amanda Vander Tuig, Tom Rea, David Carlbom, Michael Sayre, Mary King
• Feasibility and performance of a patient-oriented discharge instruction tool for heart failure (19 August, 2019)

  Toni Schofield, Heather Ross, R Sacha Bhatia, Karen Okrainec
• ‘Start smart’: using front-line ownership to improve the quality of empiric antibiotic prescribing in a paediatric hospital (19 August, 2019)

  Robert Cunney, Michelle Kirrane-Scott, Aisling Rafferty, Patrick Stapleton, Ikechukwu Okafor, Roisin McNamara
• Improving intravenous fluid prescribing in the Eastern Cape in South Africa (15 August, 2019)

  Cate Luce, Rosie Soffair, Andy Parrish
• ENT Quality Improvement Program as a tool to improve the collection of morbidity and mortality data: a multisite audit carried out over 6 months (12 August, 2019)

  Rachel Edmiston, Rajesh Anmolsingh, Sadie Khwaja, B Nirmal Kumar
• Quality improvement project aimed at integrating an adapted mindfulness-based stress reduction programme into a paediatric psychology service (26 August, 2019)

  Jacqueline Doyle, Megan Hitchcock, Deborah Christie
• Impact of a nurse engagement intervention on pain, agitation and delirium assessment in a community intensive care unit (5 August, 2019)

  Carolyn M Tan, Mercedes Camargo, Franziska Miller, Katie Ross, Ramez Maximous, Priscilla Yung, Carl Marshall, Dimitra Fleming, Madelyn Law, Jennifer LY Tsang
• Stratification of inflammatory bowel disease outpatients by disease activity and risk of complications to guide out-of-hospital monitoring: a patient-centred quality improvement project (1 August, 2019)

  Rishi K Fofaria, Susan Barber, Yewande Adeleke, Tom Woodcock, Nikolaos Kamperidis, Alaa Mohamed, Ravi Misra, Ajit Shah, Susan Bailey-Fee, Howard Bluston, Denise Robinson, Tracey Tyrrell, Naila Arebi
• Implementation and spread of a simple and effective way to improve the accuracy of medicines reconciliation on discharge: a hospital-based quality improvement project and success story (1 August, 2019)

  Shady Botros, John Dunn
• A quality improvement collaborative to build improvement capacity in regional primary care support organisations (17 July, 2019)

  Andrew Walter Knight, Mia Dhillon, Cati Smith, Julie Johnson
• Improving the wait time to admission by reducing bed rejections (15 July, 2019)

  Yuzeng Shen, Lin Hui Lee
• A multifaceted intervention to improve the quality of care for patients undergoing total joint arthroplasty (10 July, 2019)

  Lyle Sorensen, Lori Idemoto, Janet Streifel, Barbara Williams, Robert Mecklenburg, Craig Blackmore
• Reducing urinary tract infections in care homes by improving hydration (10 July, 2019)

  Katie Lean, Rasanat Fatima Nawaz, Sundus Jawad, Charles Vincent
• How does clinical space utilisation impact patient flow? (10 July, 2019)

  Alexandra von Guionneau, Charlotte M Burford
• Implementing an integrated approach to self-management support in an acute major trauma therapy team: an improvement project (4 July, 2019)

  Lucinda Hollinshead, Fiona Jones, Lucy Silvester, Paul Marshall-Taylor