Quality Improvement Project
Improving critical care discharge summaries: a collaborative quality improvement project using PDSA
... We suggest that future project teams explore the feasibility of applying a behaviour change theory or framework. During PDSA cycle 2 we explored the possibility of changing the nursing discharge summary from a ...
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Quality improvement project for managing elevated blood pressure in a primary care setting
... a quality improvement project imple- mented within a primary care setting that aimed at lowering cardiovascular risk by improving the identification, treatment, and follow-up of patients with ...
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Academic Quality Improvement Project (AQIP) and accreditation: When assessment is not optional
... A new university accreditation system in the U.S. is known as the Academic Quality Improvement Project (AQIP), developed in 1999 by the North Central Association.AQIP is designed to offer an ...
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A Quality Improvement Project to Assess Timing of Initial Investigations in Stroke Medicine
... this quality improvement project was to assess the timing of CT Head scans and blood tests and to implement a tool to ensure these are done in a timely fashion, within the emergency care ...The ...
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Risk Stratification for Opioid Misuse in Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults: A Quality Improvement Project
... a quality improvement project using an “opioid bundle” to risk stratify all patients for opioid misuse, with the global aim of safe opioid prescribing by our ...
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Appropriate utilisation of cardiac telemetry monitoring: a quality improvement project
... This quality improvement project was conducted in a single academic medical centre in Kansas City, ...the project was to reduce inappropriate cardiac telemetry monitoring on intermediate care ...
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Concussion assessment in the emergency department: a preliminary study for a quality improvement project
... This quality improvement project has shown that key symptoms, signs and traits highlighted by the ED-CAT were more sensitive to 30-day reattendance in patients over the age of 13 presenting to the ED ...
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A quality improvement project to tackle under-reporting of hazards by doctors by using an anonymous telephone hotline
... this quality improvement project came, in part, from the work of Terry Fairbanks, director for the National Centre for Human Factors Engineering in Healthcare, ...the project team thought that ...
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Improving Notification of Sexually Transmitted Infections: A Quality Improvement Project and Planned Experiment
... METHODS: We conducted an interventional quality improvement project at a pediatric emergency department. Phase 1 included plan- do-study-act cycles to test interventions such as provider education ...
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A Quality Improvement Project to Reduce Length of Stay for Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome
... for patients with NAS than we describe in our quality improvement project. Their study was based on administrative coding data. From a review of our own patients, we find that it is not uncommon for ...
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The EASE Quality Improvement Project: Improving Safe Sleep Practices in Ohio Children’s Hospitals
... Twenty-two hospitalists from the 6 children’s hospitals participated in the project. Twelve (55%) were women, and 12 (55%) were junior physicians (<35 years of age). At least 3 of 6 participating hospitals had ...
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Coaching for recovery: a quality improvement project in mental healthcare
... - The educational range in the group was very wide; several students had literacy issues or specific learning difficulties. Some students had no formal education qualifications whilst others had doctorate or professional ...
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‘Take Ten’ improving the surgical post-take ward round: a quality improvement project
... When presented at various meetings, the issues high- lighted in the project have resonated with many other doctors working within both surgical and medical settings. Accurate communication of the initial consul- ...
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Improving Early Literacy Promotion: A Quality-Improvement Project for Reach Out and Read
... strated improvement in book distribu- tion and anticipatory guidance, leaders at 2 of the sites that had im- provement indicated that staff were more involved in the process, which led to a smoother ...
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A quality improvement project to increase compliance with diabetes measures in an academic outpatient setting
... The quality indicators that were observed were chosen based on ADA guidelines for key measures to monitor in patients with ...nificant improvement in A1c outcomes [11, ...
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Hypoglycemia Prevention in Hospital Patients: A Quality Improvement Project to Prevent Severe and Recurrent Hypoglycemia
... provement project was to improve patient safety by addressing actions that increase the risk of hypoglycemia or increase blood glucose ...the project were to 1) identify rates and frequent causes of ...
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Improving communication between obstetric and neonatology teams for high-risk deliveries: a quality improvement project
... for quality improvement. During the 8-month improvement period, the per cent of pages increased to 97% for gestational age and 97% for reason for NRT ...the project resulted in the development ...
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The use of PDSA methodology to evaluate and optimise an inner city memory clinic: a quality improvement project
... PDSA is a tool for “ developing, testing and implementing changes leading to improvement ” which has four stages [6]. A plan is developed to test the change (Plan) and the test is carried out (Do). The data from ...
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Reducing the incidence of Obstetric Sphincter Injuries using a hands-on technique: an interventional quality improvement project
... Our data still show special cause variation in the desired direction (Figure 3), indicating that the new process is not stable yet and further improvement may be anticipated. The documented adherence to the inter- ...
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The Whittington Frailty Pathway: improving access to comprehensive geriatric assessment: an interdisciplinary quality improvement project
... sustained improvement, facilitated by the integration of CFS within an electronic record system, a continuing programme of education and awareness, and having dedicated staff available to support the ...the ...
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