Table of contents

Quality improvement report

• Improving quality of care in less than 1 min: a prospective intervention study on postoperative handovers to the ICU/PACU (21 June, 2020)

  Niklas Keller, Götz Bosse, Belinda Memmert, Sascha Treskatsch, Claudia Spies
• ‘I’ve got a little list’—the scourge of a surgical junior. A quality improvement project to change the surgical patient list in a district general hospital (15 June, 2020)

  Hiba Khan, Elizabeth Flesher, James Marshman, Alexander Harding, Rob Bethune, Samuel Lawday
• Improving VTE risk assessment and prophylaxis prescribing rate in medical patients: integrating risk assessment tool into the workflow (14 June, 2020)

  Hannah Preston, Iain Swan, Lauren Davies, Simon Dummer, Aravindan Veiraiah, Yuan Ye Beh, Ann Lockman
• Checklists in community care: reducing differences in care delivery between regular and relief staff to improve consistency and client experience (8 June, 2020)

  Swapnil Rege, Aisha Mian Malik, Marybeth Ward, Jing Hong
• Improving venous thromboembolism prophylaxis through critical thinking and health informatics (2 June, 2020)

  Haytham Taha, Ezhil Govindraj, Filestin Jaber, Ghadah Shehadeh, Bernadette Kelly, Siny Krishnan, Wala Kamal Hamed
• Improving asthma care with Asthma-COPD Afterhours Respiratory Nurse at Emergency (A-CARE) (1 June, 2020)

  Si Yuan Chew, Jenneth Yue Ling Leow, Adrian Kok Wai Chan, Jing Jing Chan, Kenneth Boon Kiat Tan, Butta Aman, Donna Tan, Mariko Siyue Koh
• Rapid implementation of virtual clinics due to COVID-19: report and early evaluation of a quality improvement initiative (21 May, 2020)

  Anthony William Gilbert, Joe C T Billany, Ruth Adam, Luke Martin, Rebecca Tobin, Shiv Bagdai, Noreen Galvin, Ian Farr, Adam Allain, Lucy Davies, John Bateson
• Using Lean Six Sigma methodologies to reduce risk of warfarin medication omission at hospital discharge (19 May, 2020)

  Ashlie Kallal, David Griffen, Cassie Jaeger
• Improving the use of the ‘COUGH’ bundle in Surgical High Dependency Unit, Ninewells Hospital, Dundee (17 May, 2020)

  Victoria Livie, Jennifer Livie, Sharon Hilton-Christie
• Losing the wait: improving patient cycle time in primary care (6 May, 2020)

  Jehni Robinson, Melody Porter, Yara Montalvo, Carol J Peden
• Reducing caesarean rates in a public maternity hospital by implementing a plan of action: a quality improvement report (6 May, 2020)

  Romulo Negrini, Raquel Domingues da Silva Ferreira, Renata Silva Albino, Carol Amaral Tavares Daltro
• Improving patient safety during intrahospital transportation of mechanically ventilated patients with critical illness (20 April, 2020)

  Shwu-Jen Lin, Chin-Yuan Tsan, Mao-Yuan Su, Chao-Ling Wu, Li-Chin Chen, Hsiu-Jung Hsieh, Wei-Ling Hsiao, Jui-Chen Cheng, Yao-Wen Kuo, Jih-Shuin Jerng, Huey-Dong Wu, Jui-Sheng Sun
• Designing and implementing an all Wales postpartum haemorrhage quality improvement project: OBS Cymru (the Obstetric Bleeding Strategy for Wales) (8 April, 2020)

  Sarah Frances Bell, Thomas Kitchen, Miriam John, Cerys Scarr, Kevin Kelly, Christopher Bailey, Kathryn James, Adam Watkins, Elinore Macgillivray, Tracey Edey, Kathryn Greaves, Ingrid Volikas, James Tozer, Niladril Sengupta, Claire Francis, Rachel Collis, Peter Collins
• Opioid stewardship: implementing a proactive, pharmacist-led intervention for patients coprescribed opioids and benzodiazepines at an urban academic primary care centre (7 April, 2020)

  Tiana Tilli, Jonathan Hunchuck, Norman Dewhurst, Tara Kiran
• Reducing time to treatment of bacterial sexually transmitted infections in an HIV cohort (5 April, 2020)

  Richard Kennedy, Andrew J Winter
• Partnering with patients to improve access to primary care (1 April, 2020)

  Sam Davie, Tara Kiran