Table of contents

Quality improvement report

• Directed intervention to improve the rate of admission medication reconciliation in an acute care hospital (30 December, 2019)

  Htay Htay Kyi, Saira Sundus, Huda Marcus, Jason Sotzen, Parker Suit, James Cranford, Ghassan Bachuwa, Philip J McDonald
• Reducing avoidable chest pain admissions and implementing high-sensitivity troponin testing (16 December, 2019)

  Yousaf Bhatti, Alexander Stevenson, Scott Weerasuriya, Sadia Khan
• Appropriate use of CT for patients presenting with suspected renal colic: a quality improvement study (2 December, 2019)

  Jonah Himelfarb, Anand Lakhani, Dominick Shelton
• Introduction of an electronic patient record (EPR) improves operation note documentation: the results of a closed loop audit and proposal of a team-based approach to documentation (2 December, 2019)

  Joanna Aldoori, Naomi Drye, Mark Peter, Jenifer Barrie
• Improving the quality of assessment and management of nasal trauma in a major trauma centre (MTC): Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham (27 November, 2019)

  Apoorva Khajuria, Max Sallis Osborne, Lisha McClleland, Sandip Ghosh
• Improving the use of intravenous antihypertensive medications in the hospital setting: a quality improvement initiative for patient safety (27 November, 2019)

  Jacob Salman, Alicja Salman, Sarwan Kumar, Rudin Gjeka, Vesna Tegeltija, Daymon Peterson, Nour Chams, Ian Ross
• Preventing strokes in people with atrial fibrillation by improving ABC (27 November, 2019)

  Jagjot Kaur Chahal, Sotiris Antoniou, Mark Earley, Shabana Ali, Khalid Saja, Harjit Singh, Peter K MacCallum, John Robson
• The Whittington Frailty Pathway: improving access to comprehensive geriatric assessment: an interdisciplinary quality improvement project (26 November, 2019)

  John McGrath, Paula Almeida, Ruth Law
• Enhancing communication and social engagement among clinicians and research teams to improve reliability of research recruitment (24 November, 2019)

  Joyce C Chang, Lisa H Buckley, Taylor Goldberg, Brian E Nolan, Rosemary Peterson, Emily J Liebling, Lindsay N Waqar, Jon M Burnham
• Development and implementation of electronic medical handovers across psychiatric hospitals: quality improvement initiative (18 November, 2019)

  Luke Skelton, Jonathan Rogers, Chris Kalafatis
• Demand and capacity in an ADHD team: reducing the wait times for an ADHD assessment to 12 weeks (30 October, 2019)

  Laura Ann Roughan, Jamie Stafford
• Reducing waste: a guidelines-based approach to reducing inappropriate vitamin D and TSH testing in the inpatient rehabilitation setting (25 October, 2019)

  Emma A Bateman, Alan Gob, Ian Chin-Yee, Heather M MacKenzie
• Reducing delay in laboratory reports for outpatients from 16% to <3% at a non-profit hospital in New Delhi, India (19 October, 2019)

  Saru Bhartia, Pradaya Wahi, Rinu Goyal
• Patients at the centre of care: debriefing patients after caesarean section (17 October, 2019)

  Claire Dougan, Emma Smith, Jennifer Ploski, Arthur Mc Nally, Katie Johnston
• Improving the patient experience through a comprehensive performance framework to evaluate excellence in person-centred care (15 October, 2019)

  Sara Guastello, Karin Jay
• Optimisation of diagnosis and treatment of heart failure in a primary care setting (14 October, 2019)

  Smita Bakhai, Aishwarya Bhardwaj, Huy Phan, Shane Varghese, Gregory D Gudleski, Jessica L Reynolds
• Postpartum depression screening: are we doing a competent job? (13 October, 2019)

  Sathyanarayan Sudhanthar, Zile-e-huma Sheikh, Kripa Thakur
• Offering patients a choice for colorectal cancer screening: a quality improvement pilot study in a quality circle of primary care physicians (3 October, 2019)

  Yonas Martin, Leo Alexander Braun, Marc-Andrea Janggen, Kali Tal, Nikola Biller-Andorno, Cyril Ducros, Kevin Selby, Reto Auer, Adrian Rohrbasser