Table 1

Themes of improvement activities—including local plans

Themes of improvement activities—local plan	Tromsø	Namsos	Trondheim	Molde	Gjøvik	Tønsberg	Haugesund
General changes
Discuss the quality improvement project in staff meetings	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
Use the videos for internal teaching	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
Improve inclusion routines to the register	X	X		X		X
Review of literature			X
Training at another hospital							X
Fewer operators performing tonsillectomy			X
Stricter use of indications for tonsil surgery			X	X
Changes in surgical procedures
Increase in the use of cold dissection techniques for tonsillectomy	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
Decrease the use of diathermy for haemostasis		X	X			X	X
More time for compression to achieve haemostasis		X	X	X		X	X
Increase tonsillotomy in children	X
Order new equipment for cold dissection	X		X	X		X	X
Standardised surgical instruments			X	X		X

Activities and changes implemented by hospitals as a means to reduce the readmission rate due to post-tonsillectomy haemorrhage.