Table of contents

Quality improvement report

• Improving physician handover documentation process for patient transfer from paediatric intensive care unit to general ward (31 December, 2020)

  Hamza Alali, Mohannad Antar, Ali AlShehri, Ousaima AlHamouieh, Khaled Al-Surimi, Yasser Kazzaz
• Creating more than a directory: improving handover of information by renovating the induction app for University Hospital Wishaw (30 December, 2020)

  Kathleen Clare, Jennifer Cathcart, Manish Patel
• Improving the percentage of HIV tests offered to patients admitted to an acute hospital trust with community-acquired pneumonia (17 December, 2020)

  Rachel McGuinness, Harry Keevil, Adam Sharif, Ting Kwan Lau, William Crookes, Roma Bhamm, Salma Ali, Victoria Payne, Leanna Hollinshead, Karen Cundy, Aklak Choudhury
• Cardiac arrest in the paediatric intensive care unit: defining the problem and developing solutions (17 December, 2020)

  Candice M Ray, Matthew Pizzuto, Edith Reyes-Alvarado, Kimberly Jackson, David A Turner, Sameer Kamath
• Post-discharge care following acute kidney injury: quality improvement in primary care (16 December, 2020)

  Susan J Howard, Rebecca Elvey, Julius Ohrnberger, Alex J Turner, Laura Anselmi, Anne-Marie Martindale, Tom Blakeman
• Quality improvement project to eliminate the occurrence of never events during insertion of intrauterine contraception (16 December, 2020)

  Jo Power, Eva Jungmann, Anshu Rayan, Teresa Battison, Simon Edwards
• Implementation of a medical education programme for addictions MDT members to improve knowledge and confidence in managing substance users with complex comorbidities (12 December, 2020)

  Marie Alexandra Edison, Bridget Browne, Jeffrey Fehler
• Improving smoking cessation in first episode psychosis: a quality improvement project by the City & Hackney Early and Quick Intervention Psychosis (EQUIP) (10 December, 2020)

  Orestis Kanter Bax, Nadim Hakim, Michael Jeggo, Declan Phelan, Timothy Stevens, Susham Gupta
• Reducing the waiting time to initiation of infertility treatment at a tertiary care centre in India (23 November, 2020)

  K Aparna Sharma, Anshu Yadav, Chithira Sridhar, Neena Malhotra, Siby Biji, Kusum Kumari
• How to prioritise in quality improvement? Targeted implementation as a key for quality improvement in Kenyan health facilities (19 November, 2020)

  Christine Nitschke, Maureen Nafula, Marc Brodowski, Irmgard Marx, Charles Kandie, Irene Omogi, Friederike Paul-Fariborz, Joachim Szecsenyi, Lucia Brugnara, Michael Marx
• Improving access and flow within Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: a collaborative learning system approach (18 November, 2020)

  Jamie Stafford, Marco Aurelio, Amar Shah
• Improving management of hospitalised patients with COVID-19: algorithms and tools for implementation and measurement (16 November, 2020)

  Ahmed Salem, Hossam Elamir, Huda Alfoudri, Mohammed Shamsah, Shams Abdelraheem, Ibtissam Abdo, Mohammad Galal, Lamiaa Ali
• Producing a new website for a paediatric liaison mental health team with our service users (13 November, 2020)

  Alexander Adams, Virginia Davies, Bethany Stubbs
• Quality improvement at scale: evaluation of the drivers and barriers to adoption and sustainability of an intervention to reduce late referral in chronic kidney disease (12 November, 2020)

  Nicola Thomas, Michael Nation, Lesley Woolnough, Hugh Gallagher
• Improving population health in resident clinics: increasing pneumonia vaccination rates in adults 65 years and older (9 November, 2020)

  Sheila McGreevy, Caylin McGowan, Kristin Gillenwater, Rebecca Opole, Meena Veluri, Kim Stehle, Bethany Ramm, Cheryl Gibson
• Bundled interventions for consumption management and monitoring of personal protective equipment in COVID-19 pandemic in Hong Kong local hospitals (5 November, 2020)

  Wai-Man Kwan, Chun-Keung Mok, Yick-Ting Kwok, Hon-Wai Lam, Kwan-Ho Chan, Tat-Hong Samuel Law, Pik-Man Leung, Man-Yu Mak, Tak-Lun Que, Yiu-Hang Tang
• To improve the communication between a community mental health team and its service users, their families and carers (5 November, 2020)

  Priyalakshmi Chowdhury, Amir Tari, Ola Hill, Amar Shah
• Rapid implementation and improvement of a virtual student placement model in response to the COVID-19 pandemic (4 November, 2020)

  Rory Twogood, Elly Hares, Matthew Wyatt, Andrew Cuff
• Telehealth: improving maternity services by modern technology (3 November, 2020)

  Nusrat Fazal, Anne Webb, Jo Bangoura, Mohamed El Nasharty
• Management of catastrophic haemorrhage in palliative head and neck cancer: creation of a new protocol using simulation (2 November, 2020)

  Paul Sooby, Abdurahman Tarmal, Richard Townsley
• Implementing a triage tool to improve appropriateness of care for children coming to the emergency department in a small hospital in India (12 October, 2020)

  Neha Joshi, Rakhi Wadhwani, Jitender Nagpal, Saru Bhartia
• Longitudinal, multidisciplinary, resident-driven intervention to increase immunisation rates for Medicaid, low-income and uninsured patients (7 October, 2020)

  Cynthia Cantu, Kristopher Koch, Ramon S Cancino
• Appropriate CT cervical spine utilisation in the emergency department (7 October, 2020)

  Mark Baker, Cassie Jaeger, Carol Hafley, James Waymack
• Reducing wait time for administration of systemic anticancer treatment (SACT) in a hospital outpatient facility (6 October, 2020)

  Angeline Macleod, Fiona Campbell, Derick Macrae, Evelyn Gray, Leanne Miller, Michelle Beattie