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• "Chase CRP", "Review patient": Improving the Quality of Weekend Medical Handover at a London Teaching Hospital.1 passage
• "SHOUT" to improve the quality of care delivered to patients with acute kidney injury at Great Western Hospital.1 passage
• "Speeding up the road to recovery": The Complex Recovery Assessment and Consultation (CRAC) service.1 passage
• "The constipation conundrum": Improving recognition of constipation on a gastroenterology ward.1 passage
• A Multifaceted Quality Improvement Programme to Improve Acute Kidney Injury Care and Outcomes in a Large Teaching Hospital.1 passage
• A QI initiative: implementing a patient handoff checklist for pediatric hospitalist attendings.1 passage
• A Quality Improvement Approach to Standardization and Sustainability of the Hand-off Process.1 passage
• A Quality Improvement Project to Assess Timing of Initial Investigations in Stroke Medicine.1 passage
• A Quality Improvement Project to Reduce the 'No Show' rate in a Paediatric Neurology Clinic.1 passage
• A Unified Electronic Tool for CPR and Emergency Treatment Escalation Plans Improves Communication and Early Collaborative Decision Making for Acute Hospital Admissions.1 passage
• A change of culture: reducing blood culture contamination rates in an Emergency Department.1 passage
• A collaborative improvement project by an NHS Emergency Department and Scottish Ambulance Paramedics to improve the identification and delivery of sepsis 6.1 passage
• A multi-faceted approach to increase appropriate analgesia prescribing in the emergency department.1 passage
• A multifaceted approach to improving the quality of ENT Emergency Clinic referrals.1 passage
• A multifaceted approach to prevention of delirium on intensive care.1 passage
• A novel approach to improving coagulation sample ordering in an emergency department.1 passage
• A project to improve the management of patients on warfarin in a primary care setting through the introduction of a POC analysis.1 passage
• A project to reduce the rate of central line associated bloodstream infection in ICU patients to a target of zero.1 passage
• A quality improvement initiative on the management of osteoporosis in older people with Parkinsonism.1 passage
• A simple prioritisation system to improve the electronic handover.1 passage
• Absconding: reducing failure to return in adult mental health wards.1 passage
• Acute kidney injury; improving the communication from secondary to primary care.1 passage
• Adopting and sustaining a Virtual Fracture Clinic model in the District Hospital setting - a quality improvement approach.1 passage
• Alcohol detoxification in Ysbyty Gwynedd: Two small sips or one big gulp? Two-step screening more reliable for identification of alcohol dependency syndrome at risk of delirium tremens for routine care.1 passage
• All Patients with Diabetes Should Have Annual UACR Tests. Why is That So Hard?1 passage
• Alterations to calling criteria for Between the Flags (an early warning system).1 passage
• Analgesia in hip fractures. Do fascia-iliac blocks make any difference?1 passage
• Antimicrobial stewardship: Improving antibiotic prescribing practice in a respiratory ward.1 passage
• Applying Quality Improvement into Systems-based Learning to Improve Diabetes Outcomes in Primary Care.1 passage
• Are patients with newly diagnosed breast cancer getting appropriate DEXA scans? A District General Hospital experience.1 passage
• Are we meeting current standards in medicines reconciliation? A study in a District General Hospital.1 passage
• Atrial fibrillation care improvement collaborative.1 passage
• Availability of ambulance patient care reports in the emergency department.1 passage
• CQUIN audit for prescription of antibiotics for urinary tract infections in an acute medical assessment unit.1 passage
• Ceiling of care decisions at an older person's mental health unit in Gloucestershire.1 passage
• Changing an ingrained culture: Improving the safety of oxygen therapy at University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust.1 passage
• Chasing the Golden Hour - Lessons learned from improving initial neutropenic sepsis management.1 passage
• Chest drain care bundle: Improving documentation and safety.1 passage
• Choosing Wisely: A Quality Improvement Initiative to Decrease Unnecessary Preoperative Testing.1 passage
• Coaching for recovery: a quality improvement project in mental healthcare.1 passage
• Concise Care Bundles In Acute Medicine.1 passage
• Confusion: delirium and dementia - a smartphone app to improve cognitive assessment.1 passage
• Cutting delays in reversing anticoagulation after intracerebral haemorrhage: three key changes at a UK comprehensive stroke centre.1 passage
• Decreasing Time to Pain Relief for Emergency Department Patients with Extremity Fractures.1 passage
• Design and Implementation of a Trauma Care Bundle at a Community Hospital.1 passage
• Details behind the dots: How different intensive care units used common and contrasting methods to prevent ventilator associated pneumonia.1 passage
• Developing a patient information leaflet to improve information offered to patients undergoing appendicectomy.1 passage
• Developing a ward round checklist to improve patient safety.1 passage
• Developing psychological services following facial trauma.1 passage
• Development and Implementation of a Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infection (CAUTI) 'Toolkit'.1 passage
• Development and evaluation of a community respiratory physiotherapy service for children with severe neurodisability.1 passage
• Development and implementation of a standardized pathway in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit for children with severe traumatic brain injuries.1 passage
• Dilemmas of a rota: Google's solution.1 passage
• E-DIP: Early Discharge Project. A Model for Throughput and Early Discharge for 1-Day Admissions.1 passage
• Early Aspirin administration post Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery - Changing hospital culture through a two-cycled audit.1 passage
• Electronic Printed Ward Round Proformas: Freeing Up Doctors' Time.1 passage
• Eliminating guidewire retention during ultrasound guided central venous catheter insertion via an educational program, a modified CVC set, and a drape with reminder stickers.1 passage
• Elimination of Emergency Department Medication Errors Due To Estimated Weights.1 passage
• Enhanced recovery clinical education programme improves quality of post-operative care.1 passage
• Enhanced recovery programme in gynaecology: outcomes of a hysterectomy care pathway.1 passage
• Ensuring availability of in date and fit for purpose emergency guidelines in all anaesthetic areas throughout the South East Scotland deanery.1 passage
• Ensuring timely thromboprophylaxis on a Medical Assessment Unit.1 passage
• Epilepsy emergency rescue training.1 passage
• Evaluating the Quality of Medical Documentation at a University Teaching Hospital.1 passage
• Evaluating the quality improvement impact of the Global Tracheostomy Collaborative in four diverse NHS hospitals.1 passage
• Evaluation of an evidence based quality improvement innovation for patients with musculoskeletal low back pain in an accident and emergency setting.1 passage
• Four Simple Ward Based Initiatives to Reduce Unnecessary In-Hospital Patient Stay: A Quality Improvement Project.1 passage
• From many deaths to some few cases of drug-resistant tuberculosis: travelling with the systems quality improvement model in Lacs Health District, Togo.1 passage
• Getting Access to Toxbase for Doctors in the Avon and Wiltshire Partnership.1 passage
• Giving ourselves a head start: improving the quality of documentation of referrals to neurosurgery.1 passage
• Going for growth: improvement in the infrastructural and management support for clinical academic research.1 passage
• Gout in primary care: Can we improve patient outcomes?1 passage
• Health Education and Activity - Lessening The Inequalities in mental health (HEA - LTI mental health).1 passage
• Hepatitis C: improving the quality of screening in a community hospital by implementing an electronic medical record intervention.1 passage
• High value cost conscious care for diabetic patients at a community hospital.1 passage
• How safe is our "place of safety"? Clinical guidance promoting safer medical care of patients detained under section 136 of the Mental Health Act.1 passage
• Hydration Stickers - Improving oral hydration in vulnerable patients.1 passage
• Hypoglycaemia monitoring in a medical receiving ward.1 passage
• Hypokalaemia: Improving the investigation, management and therapeutic monitoring of hypokalaemic medical inpatients at a district general hospital.1 passage
• Identifying, highlighting and reducing polypharmacy in a UK hospice inpatient unit using improvement Science methods.1 passage
• ImERSE (Improving Experience through Regular Shadowing Events).1 passage
• Impact of health portal enrolment with email reminders at an academic rheumatology clinic.1 passage
• Implementation of a Shoulder Soft Tissue Injury Triage Service in a UK NHS Teaching Hospital Improves Time to Surgery for Acute Rotator Cuff Tears.1 passage
• Implementation of a ward round pro-forma to improve adherence to best practice guidelines.1 passage
• Implementing mobile devices to reduce non-rostered workload for junior doctors.1 passage
• Importance of patient-centred signage and navigation guide in an orthopaedic and plastics clinic.1 passage
• Improved Surgical Site Infection (SSI) rate through accurately assessed surgical wounds.1 passage
• Improvement of fluid balance monitoring through education and rationalisation.1 passage
• Improving Bisphosphonate Infusion Monitoring at Haematology Medical Day Unit.1 passage
• Improving Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infection Rates in the Medical Units.1 passage
• Improving Clinical Remission Rates in Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease with Previsit Planning.1 passage
• Improving Detection of IV Infiltrates in Neonates.1 passage
• Improving Documentation and Communication Using Operative Note Proformas.1 passage
• Improving Door to Needle time in Patients for Thrombolysis.1 passage
• Improving Emergency Department flow through optimized bed utilization.1 passage
• Improving Interprofessional and Coproductive Outcomes of Care for Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.1 passage
• Improving Outpatient Clinic Experience for Core Medical Trainees.1 passage
• Improving Pre-emptive Prescribing to Relieve Patient Discomfort Occurring Out of Hours.1 passage
• Improving Surgical and Anaesthesia Practice: Review of the Use of the WHO Safe Surgery Checklist in Felege Hiwot Referral Hospital, Ethiopia.1 passage
• Improving VTE risk assessment at point of admission to a tertiary centre cardiology ward.1 passage
• Improving Weekend Out Of hours Surgical Handover (WOOSH).1 passage
• Improving access for Urgent patients in Paediatric Neurology.1 passage
• Improving access to clinical guidance: redevelopment of a junior doctor intranet page.1 passage
• Improving acute medical management: Junior Doctor Emergency Prescription Cards.1 passage
• Improving admission medication reconciliation compliance using the electronic tool in admitted medical patients.1 passage
• Improving analgesia in fractured neck of femur with a standardised fascia iliaca block protocol.1 passage
• Improving antimicrobial prescribing practice for sore throat symptoms in a general practice setting.1 passage
• Improving asthma care in a pediatric resident clinic.1 passage
• Improving asthma severity and control screening in a primary care pediatric practice.1 passage
• Improving bowel preparation for colonoscopy in a cost effective manner.1 passage
• Improving capacity and consent to treatment recording in psychiatric inpatient wards: A multi-centre quality improvement project.1 passage
• Improving clinical handover: Development of a web-based intensive care unit consultation system with structured reply generation.1 passage
• Improving communication between phlebotomists and doctors: a quality improvement project.1 passage
• Improving compliance with iron infusion therapy in the treatment of chronic anemia in haemodialysis patients with chronic kidney disease.1 passage
• Improving consent form documentation and introduction of procedure-specific labels in a district general hospital.1 passage
• Improving cranial ultrasound scanning strategy in neonates.1 passage
• Improving critical care discharge summaries: a collaborative quality improvement project using PDSA.1 passage
• Improving diagnosis for congenital cataract by introducing NGS genetic testing.1 passage
• Improving documentation of cardiovascular disease risk in patients with diabetes attending non communicable disease clinics at West Bay Health Center in Qatar.1 passage
• Improving documentation of physical health investigations in an adolescent mental health inpatient unit.1 passage
• Improving documentation within the acute stroke unit: Introducing a stroke specific clerking proforma.1 passage
• Improving door to CT scanner times for potential stroke thrombolysis candidates - The Emergency Department's role.1 passage
• Improving door-to-needle times for patients presenting with ST-elevation myocardial infarction at a rural district general hospital.1 passage
• Improving early recognition of delirium using SQiD (Single Question to identify Delirium): a hospital based quality improvement project.1 passage
• Improving efficiency management of radiopharmaceutical materials at a nuclear medicine department.1 passage
• Improving emergency department flow through Rapid Medical Evaluation unit.1 passage
• Improving feedback from outpatient medical appointments attended by escorted psychiatric patients in the North London Forensic Service.1 passage
• Improving fluid balance monitoring on the wards.1 passage
• Improving handover from intensive care to ward medical teams with simple changes to paperwork.1 passage
• Improving handover of acute orthopaedic admissions.1 passage
• Improving induction of labour - a quality improvement project addressing Caesarean section rates and length of process in women undergoing induction of labour.1 passage
• Improving information availability in vascular surgical clinics. A service evaluation and improvement project.1 passage
• Improving inpatient care for older adults: Implementing Dementia Commissioning for Quality and Innovation (CQUIN).1 passage
• Improving inpatient care with the introduction of a hip fracture pathway.1 passage
• Improving management of gout in primary care using a customised electronic records template.1 passage
• Improving medical handover at the weekend: a quality improvement project.1 passage
• Improving medicines reconciliation rates at Ashford and St. Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.1 passage
• Improving oxygen prescribing rates by tailoring interventions for specific healthcare professional groups.1 passage
• Improving paediatric prescribing practice in a district general hospital through implementation of a quality improvement programme.1 passage
• Improving pain assessment and managment in stroke patients.1 passage
• Improving patient blood management in obstetrics: snapshots of a practice improvement partnership.1 passage
• Improving patient flow in pre-operative assessment.1 passage
• Improving patient outcomes with technology and social media in paediatric diabetes.1 passage
• Improving patient reported outcome measures (PROMs) in total knee replacement by changing implant and preserving the infrapatella fatpad: a quality improvement project.1 passage
• Improving patient safety by implementing a new general surgical on-call rota for FY1 doctors.1 passage
• Improving pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) follow-up.1 passage
• Improving phlebotomy handover of untaken blood tests to junior doctors.1 passage
• Improving physical health for people taking antipsychotic medication in the Community Learning Disabilities Service.1 passage
• Improving physical health monitoring for patients with chronic mental health problems who receive antipsychotic medications.1 passage
• Improving physician's adherence to completing vaccination schedules for patients with type 2 diabetes attending non-communicable diseases clinics in West Bay Health Center, Qatar.1 passage
• Improving physician's hand over among oncology staff using standardized communication tool.1 passage
• Improving pneumococcal vaccination rates of medical inpatients in urban Nepal using quality improvement measures.1 passage
• Improving referrals for tilt table testing in patients with transient loss of consciousness.1 passage
• Improving referrals to the Liaison service at the Royal United Hospital in Bath.1 passage
• Improving reporting of critical incidents through education and involvement.1 passage
• Improving smoking cessation policy by assessing user demand for an inpatient smoking cessation service in adult psychiatric wards.1 passage
• Improving the Diagnosis of Neonatal Hypoglycemia in a Well-Baby Nursery.1 passage
• Improving the Physical Health Monitoring of City & Hackney Assertive Outreach Service Patients.1 passage
• Improving the Quality of Assessment and Management of Hypoglycaemia in Hospitalised Patients with Diabetes Mellitus by Introducing 'Hypo Boxes' to General Medical Wards with a Specialist Interest in Diabetes.1 passage
• Improving the acute care of COPD patients across Gloucestershire: a quality improvement project.1 passage
• Improving the availability of intra-operative images created during trauma operations - a multidisciplinary team collaboration.1 passage
• Improving the care of children with urinary tract infection: use of a clinical decision proforma.1 passage
• Improving the communication between teams managing boarded patients on a surgical specialty ward.1 passage
• Improving the diagnosis of pulmonary embolism in the emergency department.1 passage
• Improving the diagnostic quality and adequacy of shoulder radiographs in a District General Hospital.1 passage
• Improving the documentation of nasogastric tube insertion and adherence to local enteral nutrition guidelines.1 passage
• Improving the efficacy of elderly patients' hospital discharge through multi-professional safety briefings and behavioural change.1 passage
• Improving the handover and care of acute urological admissions.1 passage
• Improving the likelihood of neurology patients being examined using patient feedback.1 passage
• Improving the management of acute pancreatitis in a district general hospital.1 passage
• Improving the management of iron deficiency in ambulatory heart failure patients.1 passage
• Improving the management of sepsis in a district general hospital by implementing the 'Sepsis Six' recommendations.1 passage
• Improving the productivity and efficiency of vascular surgery and radiology multidisciplinary meetings.1 passage
• Improving the provision of driving advice on discharge after abdominal surgery.1 passage
• Improving the quality of discharge summaries for elective surgical procedures at North Bristol NHS Trust.1 passage
• Improving the quality of discharge summaries: implementing updated Academy of Medical Royal Colleges standards at a district general hospital.1 passage
• Improving the quality of handover by addressing handover culture and introducing a new, multi-disciplinary, team-based handover meeting.1 passage
• Improving the quality of handover in a liaison psychiatry team.1 passage
• Improving the quality of initial management of self harm and suicide patients in A+E at the James Paget Hospital.1 passage
• Improving the quality of operative notes by implementing a new electronic template for upper limb surgery at the Royal Derby Hospital.1 passage
• Improving the quality of the surgical preoperative assessment in a district general hospital.1 passage
• Improving the rate of Patient Feedback for a Later Life Mental Health Liaison Team.1 passage
• Improving the recording of surgical drain output.1 passage
• Improving the safety and efficiency of outpatient lumbar puncture service.1 passage
• Improving the safety of chemotherapy prescribing in oncology through the introduction of an assessment proforma.1 passage
• Improving the safety of prescriptions of domperidone in primary care: implementing MHRA advice.1 passage
• Improving the uptake and comprehensiveness of bedside cognitive testing amongst liaison psychiatrists over an eight-month period.1 passage
• Improving theatre efficiency and utilisation through early identification of trauma patients and enhanced communication between teams.1 passage
• Improving timeliness for acute asthma care for paediatric ED patients using a nurse driven intervention: an interrupted time series analysis.1 passage
• Improving timely medical reviews for patients discharged from intensive care.1 passage
• Improving validated depression screen among adolescent population in primary care practice using electronic health records (EHR).1 passage
• Improving venous thromboembolism (VTE) prophylaxis in acute urological admissions during out of hours through the introduction of a urological admission proforma.1 passage
• Improving venous thromboembolism risk assessment compliance using the electronic tool in admitted medical patients.1 passage
• Improving viable low cost generic medication prescription rate in primary care pediatric practice.1 passage
• Improving visual assessment documentation in patients with periorbital trauma through an eye assessment teaching session and a proforma sticker.1 passage
• Inbox Messaging: an effective tool for minimizing non-urgent paging related interruptions in hospital medicine provider workflow.1 passage
• Increasing Organ Donor Registration in a Primary Care Clinic.1 passage
• Increasing Patient Safety Event Reporting in an Emergency Medicine Residency.1 passage
• Increasing the uptake of electronic prescribing in primary care.1 passage
• Inpatient Falls: Improving assessment, documentation, and management.1 passage
• Intensive care discharges: improving the quality of clinical handover through changes to discharge documentation.1 passage
• Introducing a New Junior Doctor Electronic Weekend Handover on an Orthopaedic Ward.1 passage
• Introducing a post-operative proforma for elective lower limb arthroplasty patients - improving patient care and junior doctor confidence.1 passage
• Introducing paediatric grommet "rapid turnover" lists. A Quality Improvement Project.1 passage
• Introducing routine HIV screening for patients on an internal medicine residency inpatient service: a quality improvement project.1 passage
• Introduction of a Microsoft Excel-based unified electronic weekend handover document in Acute and General Medicine in a DGH: aims, outcomes and challenges.1 passage
• Introduction of a Venous Thromboembolism Prophylaxis Protocol for Older Adult Psychiatric Patients.1 passage
• Introduction of a new electronic medical weekend handover at Tunbridge Wells Hospital.1 passage
• Introduction of point of care analysis for prescribing warfarin at a Swedish primary care centre.1 passage
• Keeping patients with epilepsy safe: a surmountable challenge?1 passage
• Knowledge is Power. A quality improvement project to increase patient understanding of their hospital stay.1 passage
• Large scale implementation of a medicines reconciliation care bundle in NHS GGC GP practices.1 passage
• Less is more: a project to reduce the number of PIMs (potentially inappropriate medications) on an elderly care ward.1 passage
• Let's Talk About Sex! - Improving sexual health for patients in stroke rehabilitation.1 passage
• Making Quality Improvement Happen in the Real World: Building Capability and Improving Multiple Projects at the Same Time.1 passage
• Making an IMPAKT; Improving care of Chronic Kidney Disease patients in the community through collaborative working and utilizing Information Technology.1 passage
• Making safer preoperative arrangements for patients using vitamin K antagonists.1 passage
• Making the journey safe: recognising and responding to severe sepsis in accident and emergency.1 passage
• Measuring and improving cervical, breast, and colorectal cancer screening rates in a multi-site urban practice in Toronto, Canada.1 passage
• Medication Reconciliation Improvement Through the Use of Video.1 passage
• Mind the gap: Improving discharge communication between secondary and primary care.1 passage
• Monitoring of physical health parameters for inpatients on a child and adolescent mental health unit receiving regular antipsychotic therapy.1 passage
• Mortality meetings in geriatric medicine: strategies for improvement.1 passage
• Multifaceted bundle interventions shown effective in reducing VAP rates in our multidisciplinary ICUs.1 passage
• Musculoskeletal (MSK) and Sport and Exercise Medicine (SEM) in General Practice (GP): A Novel GP-based MSK and SEM Clinic for Managing Musculoskeletal symptoms in a GP.1 passage
• Naming babies "Baby-of" at birth: A project to encourage earlier naming of infants in Abu Dhabi.1 passage
• Nurse led venesection: a quality improvement project.1 passage
• Nutritional assessment in elderly care: a MUST!1 passage
• Optimising the Pre-Operative Investigative Work Up for Elective Surgical Patients.1 passage
• Optimizing the electronic health record to standardize administration and documentation of nutritional supplements.1 passage
• Out of hours intravenous fluid therapy: a prompt to guide prescribing.1 passage
• Patient handover in orthopaedics, improving safety using Information Technology.1 passage
• Pediatric Intensive Care Unit rounding improvements.1 passage
• Performance improvement initiative: prevention of surgical site infection (SSI).1 passage
• Perioperative dexamethasone administration in tonsillectomy patients: A three-cycle audit showing improvement using printed theatre lists.1 passage
• Postoperative analgesia for Enhanced recovery in Joint replacement: Audit of a new electronic prescribing order set.1 passage
• Promoting oral health practice among patients with diabetes attending primary health care clinics.1 passage
• Promoting the management of acute upper gastrointestinal bleeds among junior doctors: a quality improvement project.1 passage
• Promoting the role of patients in improving hand hygiene compliance amongst health care workers.1 passage
• Promoting vision and hearing aids use in an intensive care unit.1 passage
• Proper Electronic Order Linkage of Electrocardiograms at a Large Children's Hospital Improves Reporting and Revenue.1 passage
• Psychological Medicine in Bart's: improving access and awareness.1 passage
• Quality improvement education to improve performance on ulcerative colitis quality measures and care processes aligned with National Quality Strategy priorities.1 passage
• Quality improvement in resident education: a pilot project to mitigate metabolic side effects from atypical antipsychotic medications in youth.1 passage
• Quality improvement project using a care bundle approach on the management of the immediate discharge document (IDD) within a single general practice.1 passage
• Quality improvement: The delivery of true early mobilisation in an intensive care unit.1 passage
• REDucing Unnecessary Coagulation Testing in the Emergency Department (REDUCED).1 passage
• Raising the issue of DNAR orders in vascular surgery patients.1 passage
• Recognition of the deteriorating patient.1 passage
• Red eyes and red-flags: improving ophthalmic assessment and referral in primary care.1 passage
• Reducing Door to- Balloon- Time for Acute ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction In Primary Percutaneous Intervention: Transformation using Robust Performance Improvement.1 passage
• Reducing avoidable time delays in immediate medication administration - learning from a failed intervention.1 passage
• Reducing calls missed by the hospital telephone exchange from 26% to less than 10.1 passage
• Reducing hospital acquired pressure ulcers in intensive care.1 passage
• Reducing inappropriate ESR testing with computerized clinical decision support.1 passage
• Reducing inpatient falls in a 100% single room elderly care environment: evaluation of the impact of a systematic nurse training programme on falls risk assessment (FRA).1 passage
• Reducing patient waiting time and length of stay in an Acute Care Pediatric Emergency Department.1 passage
• Reducing pre-operative length of stay for enterocutaneous fistula repair with a multi-disciplinary approach.1 passage
• Reducing returns to theatre for neck of femur fracture patients.1 passage
• Reducing the incidence of Obstetric Sphincter Injuries using a hands-on technique: an interventional quality improvement project.1 passage
• Reducing the number of unnecessary liver function tests requested on the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit.1 passage
• Reducing the overuse of βhCG measurements in the emergency gynaecology clinic.1 passage
• Reducing turnaround time of surgical pathology reports in pathology and laboratory medicine departments.1 passage
• Reduction of referral to assessment time for an older adults community mental health team.1 passage
• Referral Finder: Saving Time and Improving The Quality of In-hospital Referrals.1 passage
• Risk assessment and prophylaxis of venous thromboembolism in surgical inpatients: improving adherence to national guidelines.1 passage
• Role of peer support workers in improving patient experience in Tower Hamlets Specialist Addiction Unit.1 passage
• Safer Wards: reducing violence on older people's mental health wards.1 passage
• Safer fluid prescribing at North Bristol Trust: Bringing practice in line with NICE Guidance with a redesign of the fluid prescription chart.1 passage
• Seeking Sepsis in the Emergency Department- Identifying Barriers to Delivery of the Sepsis 6.1 passage
• Simple Interventions Improve the Quality of a Missed Lab Appointment Process.1 passage
• Simple interventions can greatly improve clinical documentation: a quality improvement project of record keeping on the surgical wards at a district general hospital.1 passage
• Smoking Cessation Interventions in the Cardiology Ward.1 passage
• Speeding up laboratory test reporting in Medical Emergency and Cardiac Arrest calls: a quality improvement project.1 passage
• Standardising the organisation of clinical equipment on surgical wards at North Bristol NHS Trust: a quality improvement initiative.1 passage
• Succeeding in Sustained Reduction in the use of Restraint using the Improvement Model.1 passage
• Successful emergency department interventions that reduce time to antibiotics in febrile pediatric cancer patients.1 passage
• Survive On Call - A QI Project to Improve Access to Hospital Clinical Guidelines.1 passage
• Systems for physical health care for mental health patients in the community: different approaches to improve patient care and safety in an Early Intervention in Psychosis Service.1 passage
• Targeted case finding for dementia in primary care: Surrey Downs dementia diagnosis project.1 passage
• The Handbook: an end to 'I wish I had known that before I started'.1 passage
• The Value of a Surgical Assessment Unit Ultrasound Facility.1 passage
• The psychiatric inpatient physical health assessment sheet (PIPHAS): a useful tool to improve the speed, efficiency, and documentation of physical examination in new psychiatric inpatients.1 passage
• The use of a pro forma to improve quality in clerking vascular surgery patients.1 passage
• The use of a validated pre-discharge questionnaire to improve the quality of patient experience of orthopaedic care.1 passage
• The use of an IV to PO clinical intervention form to improve antibiotic administration in a community based hospital.1 passage
• The use of conscious sedation in elective external direct current cardioversion: a single centre experience.1 passage
• To reduce the average length of stay of patients who are admitted for DA-EPOCH-R chemotherapy regimen.1 passage
• Traffic lights: putting a stop to unsafe patient transfers.1 passage
• Transitional care management in the outpatient setting.1 passage
• Troponin: think before you request one.1 passage
• Understanding and overcoming barriers to timely discharge from the pediatric units.1 passage
• Use of Electronic Clinical Decision Support and Hard Stops to Decrease Unnecessary Thyroid Function Testing.1 passage
• Use of a validated screening tool for psoriatic arthritis in dermatology clinics.1 passage
• Use of nurse-led telephone follow-up as a sole method of assessing patients after nasal surgery.1 passage
• Using a simple handover to improve the timing of gentamicin levels.1 passage
• Using league tables to reduce missed dose medication errors on mental healthcare of older people wards.1 passage
• Using the Safer Clinical Systems approach and Model for Improvement methodology to decrease Venous Thrombo-Embolism in Elective Surgical Patients.1 passage
• Using visual prompts to aid analgesia prescribing.1 passage
• Utilisation of a trauma meeting handover proforma to improve trauma patient pathway.1 passage
• Utilizing clinical pharmacists to improve delivery of evidence-based care for depression and anxiety in primary care.1 passage
• Venous thromboembolism capture on electronic systems in obstetrics patients at St Thomas' Hospital.1 passage
• Waiting time reduction in intravitreal clinics by optimization of appointment scheduling: balancing demand and supply.1 passage
• Warfarin prescription and administration: reducing the delay, improving the safety.1 passage
• Who gets admitted to the Chest Pain Unit (CPU) and how do we manage them? Improving the use of the CPU in Waikato DHB, New Zealand.1 passage