Volume 9; Issue 2

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BMJ Open Quality
Volume 9; Issue 2

BMJ Open Quality

Volume 9; Issue 2

1

Opioid stewardship: implementing a proactive, pharmacist-led intervention for patients coprescribed opioids and benzodiazepines at an urban academic primary care centre

Tilli, Tiana, Hunchuck, Jonathan, Dewhurst, Norman, Kiran, Tara

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BMJ Open Quality

Year:

2020

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2020

2

Usage of primary and administrative data to measure the economic impact of quality improvement projects

Mendlowitz, Andrew, Croxford, Ruth, MacLagan, Laura, Ritcey, Gillian, Isaranuwatchai, Wanrudee

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BMJ Open Quality

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2020

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2020

3

Designing and implementing an all Wales postpartum haemorrhage quality improvement project: OBS Cymru (the Obstetric Bleeding Strategy for Wales)

Bell, Sarah Frances, Kitchen, Thomas, John, Miriam, Scarr, Cerys, Kelly, Kevin, Bailey, Christopher, James, Kathryn, Watkins, Adam, Macgillivray, Elinore, Edey, Tracey, Greaves, Kathryn, Volikas, Ingr

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BMJ Open Quality

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2020

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4

Novel team-based approach to quality improvement effectively engages staff and reduces adverse events in healthcare settings

Curtin, Annie Gabrielle, Anderson, Vitas, Brockhus, Fran, Cohen, Donna Ruth

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BMJ Open Quality

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2020

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2020

5

Reducing readmissions and improving patient experience following urological surgery, through early telephone follow-up

Nettleton, Jeremy, Jelski, Joseph, Ahmad, Adnan

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BMJ Open Quality

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2020

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2020

6

Framework for patient, family-centred care within an Australian Community Hospital: development and description

Frakking, Thuy, Michaels, Suzanne, Orbell-Smith, Jane, Le Ray, Lance

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BMJ Open Quality

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2020

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2020

7

Development and pilot testing of quality improvement indicators for integrated primary dementia care

Oostra, Dorien L, Nieuwboer, Minke S, Olde Rikkert, Marcel G M, Perry, Marieke

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BMJ Open Quality

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2020

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2020

8

Improving patient safety during intrahospital transportation of mechanically ventilated patients with critical illness

Lin, Shwu-Jen, Tsan, Chin-Yuan, Su, Mao-Yuan, Wu, Chao-Ling, Chen, Li-Chin, Hsieh, Hsiu-Jung, Hsiao, Wei-Ling, Cheng, Jui-Chen, Kuo, Yao-Wen, Jerng, Jih-Shuin, Wu, Huey-Dong, Sun, Jui-Sheng

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BMJ Open Quality

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2020

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2020

9

Reducing caesarean rates in a public maternity hospital by implementing a plan of action: a quality improvement report

Negrini, Romulo, Ferreira, Raquel Domingues da Silva, Albino, Renata Silva, Daltro, Carol Amaral Tavares

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BMJ Open Quality

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2020

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2020

10

Improving quality of care in less than 1 min: a prospective intervention study on postoperative handovers to the ICU/PACU

Keller, Niklas, Bosse, GÃ¶tz, Memmert, Belinda, Treskatsch, Sascha, Spies, Claudia

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BMJ Open Quality

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2020

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2020

11

Improving VTE risk assessment and prophylaxis prescribing rate in medical patients: integrating risk assessment tool into the workflow

Preston, Hannah, Swan, Iain, Davies, Lauren, Dummer, Simon, Aravindan, Veiraiah, Beh, Yuan Ye, Lockman, Ann

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BMJ Open Quality

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2020

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2020

12

Processes and tools to improve teamwork and communication in surgical settings: a narrative review

Espin, Sherry, Indar, Alyssa, Gross, Marketa, Labricciosa, Antoniette, D'Arpino, Maryanne

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BMJ Open Quality

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2020

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2020

13

How do we encourage a change of behaviour around colleagues taking breaks?

Baverstock, Anna, Stewart, Lorna, White, Claire

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BMJ Open Quality

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2020

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2020

14

Improving the paediatric surgery patient experience: an 8-year analysis of narrative quality data

Robillard, Julie M, Bourne, Stephanie C, Tam, Mallorie T, Page, Patricia M, Lamb, Elizabeth A, Gogal, Carmina, Skarsgard, Erik D, Afshar, Kourosh

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BMJ Open Quality

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2020

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2020

15

Lessons learned: using adverse incident reports to investigate the characteristics and causes of prescribing errors

Lane, Natalie, Hunter, Ian

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BMJ Open Quality

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2020

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2020

16

Development of quality indicators for departments of hospital-based physiotherapy: a modified Delphi study

Steenbruggen, Rudi A, van Oorsouw, Roel, Maas, Marjo, Hoogeboom, Thomas J, Brand, Paul, Wees, Philip van der

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BMJ Open Quality

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2020

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2020

17

Using Lean Six Sigma methodologies to reduce risk of warfarin medication omission at hospital discharge

Kallal, Ashlie, Griffen, David, Jaeger, Cassie

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BMJ Open Quality

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2020

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2020

18

Improving venous thromboembolism prophylaxis through critical thinking and health informatics

Taha, Haytham, Govindraj, Ezhil, Jaber, Filestin, Shehadeh, Ghadah, Kelly, Bernadette, Krishnan, Siny, Hamed, Wala Kamal

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BMJ Open Quality

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2020

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2020

19

Improving the use of the âCOUGHâ bundle in Surgical High Dependency Unit, Ninewells Hospital, Dundee

Livie, Victoria, Livie, Jennifer, Hilton-Christie, Sharon

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BMJ Open Quality

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2020

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2020

20

Improving transitions from acute care to home among complex older adults using the LACE Index and care coordination

Charles, Lesley, Jensen, Lisa, Torti, Jacqueline M I, Parmar, Jasneet, Dobbs, Bonnie, Tian, Peter George Jaminal

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BMJ Open Quality

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2020

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2020

21

Partnering with patients to improve access to primary care

Davie, Sam, Kiran, Tara

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BMJ Open Quality

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2020

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2020

22

Checklists in community care: reducing differences in care delivery between regular and relief staff to improve consistency and client experience

Rege, Swapnil, Malik, Aisha Mian, Ward, Marybeth, Hong, Jing

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BMJ Open Quality

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2020

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2020

23

Implementing the patient care collaborative model in three general internal medicine units: a mixed-methods healthcare improvement initiative

LoPresti, Kelly, Camera, Julianne, Barrett, Elizabeth, Gosse, Caroline, Johnson, Donna, Amirthavasar, Gaya, Nashid, John, Mbuagbaw, Mirabel, Vanniyasingam, Thuvaraha, Mbuagbaw, Lawrence

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BMJ Open Quality

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2020

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2020

24

âIâve got a little listââthe scourge of a surgical junior. A quality improvement project to change the surgical patient list in a district general hospital

Khan, Hiba, Flesher, Elizabeth, Marshman, James, Harding, Alexander, Bethune, Rob, Lawday, Samuel

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BMJ Open Quality

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2020

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2020

25

A detailed analysis of patients included in the Summary Hospital-level Mortality Indicator (SHMI) for myocardial infarction (MI)âall is not what it seems?

Sharma, Vinoda, Chowdhary, Saqib, Abdul, Fairoz, DÅ¾avÃk, VladimÃr, Varma, Chetan

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BMJ Open Quality

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2020

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2020

26

Multidisciplinary approach to maximise continuity in an academic internal medicine resident clinic

Quick, Benjamin, Alexander, Ethan, Ramm, Bethany, Rachford, Wallace, Quinlan, Janelle, Broxterman, Jane

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BMJ Open Quality

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2020

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2020

27

Effect of a formalised discharge process which includes electronic delivery of prescriptions to pharmacies on the incidence of delayed prescription retrieval

Sachedina, Ayaaz Kazmir, Mota, Sonia, Lorenzin, Julie, Allegretti, Marlene, Leyser, Maureen, Gob, Alan, McKelvie, Robert

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BMJ Open Quality

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2020

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2020

28

Towards patient-centred care in Ghana: health system responsiveness, self-rated health and experiential quality in a nationally representative survey

Ratcliffe, Hannah L, Bell, Griffith, Awoonor-Williams, Koku, Bitton, Asaf, Kim, June-Ho, Lipstiz, Stuart, Macarayan, Erlyn, Ofosu, Anthony, Otupiri, Easmon, Schwarz, Dan, Hirschhorn, Lisa R

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BMJ Open Quality

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2020

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29

Improving asthma care with Asthma-COPD Afterhours Respiratory Nurse at Emergency (A-CARE)

Chew, Si Yuan, Leow, Jenneth Yue Ling, Chan, Adrian Kok Wai, Chan, Jing Jing, Tan, Kenneth Boon Kiat, Aman, Butta, Tan, Donna, Koh, Mariko Siyue

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BMJ Open Quality

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2020

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2020

30

'Team capitalâ in quality improvement teams: findings from an ethnographic study of front-line quality improvement in the NHS

Montgomery, Catherine, Parkin, Stephen, Chisholm, Alison, Locock, Louise

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BMJ Open Quality

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2020

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2020

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Assessment of the quality, content and perceived utility of local maternity guidelines in hospitals in England implementing the saving babiesâ lives care bundle to reduce stillbirth

Lau, Yu Zhen, Widdows, Kate, Roberts, Stephen A, Khizar, Sheher, Stephen, Gillian L, Rauf, Saima, Heazell, Alexander E P

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BMJ Open Quality

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2020

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32

Losing the wait: improving patient cycle time in primary care

Robinson, Jehni, Porter, Melody, Montalvo, Yara, Peden, Carol J

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BMJ Open Quality

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2020

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33

Reducing time to treatment of bacterial sexually transmitted infections in an HIV cohort

Kennedy, Richard, Winter, Andrew J

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BMJ Open Quality

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2020

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2020

34

Drugs associated with quality-related events reported by community pharmacies in Nova Scotia, Canada

MacKinnon, Neil J, Boucher, Adrian, Barker, James, Ho, Certina

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BMJ Open Quality

Year:

2020

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2020