Table of contents

Quality improvement report

• How to rapidly design and operationalise PPE donning and doffing areas for a COVID-19 care facility: quality improvement initiative (25 September, 2020)

  LaxmiTej Wundavalli, Sheetal Singh, Angel Rajan Singh, Sidhartha Satpathy
• Improving intraoperative administration of surgical antimicrobial prophylaxis: a quality improvement report (21 September, 2020)

  Victoria Haney, Stephan Maman, Jansie Prozesky, Dmitri Bezinover, Kunal Karamchandani
• Using telemedicine and wearable technology to establish a virtual clinic for people with Parkinson’s disease (21 September, 2020)

  Lauren Evans, Biju Mohamed, Edward Christopher Thomas
• Improving medication safety practice at a community hospital: a focus on bar code medication administration scanning and pain reassessment (21 September, 2020)

  Jackie Ho, David Burger
• Prospective multicentre multifaceted before-after implementation study of ICU delirium guidelines: a process evaluation (18 September, 2020)

  Zoran Trogrlic, Mathieu van der Jagt, Theo van Achterberg, Huibert Ponssen, Jeannette Schoonderbeek, Frodo Schreiner, Serge Verbrugge, Annemieke Dijkstra, Jan Bakker, Erwin Ista
• Improving uptake of cervical cancer screening services for women living with HIV and attending chronic care services in rural Malawi (14 September, 2020)

  George C Talama, Mairead Shaw, Jordan Maloya, Tafwirapo Chihana, Lawrence Nazimera, Emily B Wroe, Chiyembekezo Kachimanga
• Quality improvement in forensic mental health: the East London forensic violence reduction collaborative (13 September, 2020)

  Owen P O'Sullivan, Nynn Hui Chang, Day Njovana, Philip Baker, Amar Shah
• Improving the quality of trauma meetings by implementation of a modern trauma management platform (8 September, 2020)

  Benjamin Michael Sephton, Olivia Katherine Vernon, Kathryn Kimber, Michael Shenouda, Piyush Mahapatra
• Assisting beginners in root cause analysis operations: analysis and recommendations regarding the spread of COVID-19 in nursing facilities for the elderly (3 September, 2020)

  Hitoshi Tsuchiya
• Near Me at Home: codesigning the use of video consultations for outpatient appointments in patients’ homes (27 August, 2020)

  Michelle Beattie, Clare Morrison, Rebecah MacGilleEathain, Nicola Gray, Julie Anderson
• Quality improvement report: setting up a staff well-being hub through continuous engagement (21 August, 2020)

  Aaisha Saqib, Tarannum Rampal
• Assessment and improvement of junior doctor handover in the emergency department (18 August, 2020)

  Mark Sykes, Jack Garnham, Pablo Martin Kostelec, Hazel Hall, Anu Mitra
• Promoting hot debriefing in an emergency department (16 August, 2020)

  Stephen Gilmartin, Laura Martin, Siobhain Kenny, Ian Callanan, Nigel Salter
• Quality improvement project for improving inpatient glycaemic control in non-critically ill patients admitted on medical floor with type 2 diabetes mellitus (13 August, 2020)

  Adeel Ahmad Khan, Aamir Shahzad, Samman Rose, Dabia Hamad S H Al Mohanadi, Muhammad Zahid
• Implementation of vaginal preparation prior to caesarean section (11 August, 2020)

  Adam D Jakes, Annie Bell, Lilian Chiwera, Jilly Lloyd
• Increasing identification of foot at risk of complications in patients with diabetes: a quality improvement project in an urban primary health centre in India (6 August, 2020)

  Abha Mehndiratta, Satish Chandra Mishra, Prashant Bhandarkar, Kunal Chhatbar, Francoise Cluzeau, Team PrimaryCareDoctors
• The development of a quality improvement project to improve infection prevention and management in patients with asplenia or hyposplenia (5 August, 2020)

  Natalya Elizabeth O'Neill, Jillian Baker, Richard Ward, Colleen Johnson, Linda Taggart, Michelle Sholzberg
• Quality improvement study on early recognition and intervention of caregiver burden in a tertiary hospital (4 August, 2020)

  Rachel Marie Towle, Lian Leng Low, Siok Bee Tan, Cristina Hendrix
• Improving end-of-life care for adults with cystic fibrosis: an improvement project (3 August, 2020)

  Fiona Cathcart, Jayne Wood, Su Madge
• A quality improvement programme to reduce hospital-acquired pressure injuries (29 July, 2020)

  Poonam Gupta, Shiny Shiju, Gracy Chacko, Mincy Thomas, Asma Abas, Indirani Savarimuthu, Emad Omari, Sara Al-Balushi, Pulikana Jessymol, Sunitha Mathew, Marife Quinto, Ian McDonald, William Andrews
• Reducing time to complete neuropsychological assessments within a memory assessment service and evaluating the wider impact (29 July, 2020)

  Helen Donovan, Emma Ellis, Laura Cole, Emma Townsend, Alejandra Cases
• Improving rates of metabolic monitoring on an inpatient psychiatric ward (21 July, 2020)

  Sarah Michael, Kirsty MacDonald
• Multidisciplinary, patient-centred approach to improving compliance with venous thromboembolism (VTE) prophylaxis in a district general hospital (19 July, 2020)

  Melanie Nana, Cherry Shute, Rhys Williams, Flora Kokwaro, Kathleen Riddick, Helen Lane
• Improved outcomes in cystic fibrosis using modified Re-Education of Airway Clearance Technique (REACT) programme

  (16 July, 2020)

  Courtney Reamer, Catherine O'Malley, Julie Nufer, Adrienne Savant
• Optimising after-hours workflow of computed tomography orders in the emergency department (14 July, 2020)

  Rajesh Bhayana, Chenhan D Wang, Ravi J Menezes, Eric S Bartlett, Joseph Choi
• Improving diagnostic specimen management systems in an oral medicine department (1 July, 2020)

  Olivia Barratt, Melanie Simms, Miriam John, Michael Lewis, Phil Atkin