Case Studies
Displaying 1–20 of 81 Case Studies in Health Improvement and Innovation Resource Centre
-
Standardising the organisation of clinical equipment on surgical wards at North Bristol NHS Trust: A quality improvement initiative
posted by WM Admin on 2015-05-20 10:07:30.338
A group of foundation year one doctors identified the organisation of clinical equipment across surgical wards at North Bristol NHS…
-
Enhanced recovery clinical education programme improves quality of post-operative care (England)
posted by WM Admin on 2015-05-06 11:38:40.354
A successful enhanced recovery (ER) programme began to fail after organisational restructuring and staff changes. Patients did not meet their…
-
Improving critical care discharge summaries: A collaborative quality improvement project using PDSA (UK)
posted by WM Admin on 2015-05-05 16:12:42.644
Around 110,000 people spend time in critical care units in England and Wales each year. The transition of care from…
-
Briefings and debriefings in one surgeon's practice
posted by WM Admin on 2015-04-23 09:24:53.555
In this article, Ian Civil and Carl Shuker describe "a typical day on the 8th floor of Auckland City Hospital,…
-
Use of nurse-led telephone follow-up as a sole method of assessing patients after nasal surgery (England)
posted by WM Admin on 2015-04-09 09:49:51.08
Patients undergoing nasal surgery have historically been routinely followed up in consultant led clinics some months after surgery. It has…
-
Developing person-centred analysis of harm in a paediatric hospital: A quality improvement report (UK)
posted by WM Admin on 2015-03-31 16:38:31.87
Awareness of what happens in real time is one of the ways to develop a safe system within a culture…
-
Improving multidisciplinary communication at ward board rounds using video enhanced reflective practice (UK)
posted by WM Admin on 2015-03-11 11:51:56.737
Video enhanced reflective practice (VERP) provides training based upon analysis of film clips of one’s professional practice to develop practical…
-
Developing a ward round checklist to improve patient safety (UK)
posted by WM Admin on 2015-03-02 10:55:43.399
The authors describe the evaluation of the effectiveness of a ward round review checklist on one general medical ward in…
-
The endoscopy safety checklist: A longitudinal study of factors affecting compliance in a tertiary referral centre within the United Kingdom
posted by WM Admin on 2015-02-26 16:43:16.531
Gastrointestinal endoscopy is a widely used diagnostic and therapeutic procedure both within the United Kingdom and worldwide. With an increasingly…
-
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
posted by WM Admin on 2015-02-25 12:03:39.319
Chest pain is a commonly encountered presentation in the emergency department (ED). The chest pain unit at Waikato DHB is…
-
Improving patient flow in pre-operative assessment (UK)
posted by WM Admin on 2015-02-02 10:25:22.632
Annual patient attendances at a pre-operative assessment department increased by 24.8% from 5659 in 2009, to 7062 in 2012. The…
-
Compassionate Conversations (UK)
posted by WM Admin on 2015-01-30 11:21:39.82
The authors, from Southport and Ormskirk NHS Trust, describe the use of Compassionate Conversations - a ground-level initiative focused primarily…
-
Improving acute eye consultations in general practice: A practical approach (UK)
posted by WM Admin on 2015-01-30 11:07:24.978
The aim of this project was to improve acute eye consultations within the Birchwood Medical Practice (a large general practice…
-
Auckland DHB – staff assessments for cardiovascular disease
posted by WM Admin on 2015-01-23 14:12:59.737
A range of stories that show how Auckland District Health Board has been helping improve the health of its staff…
-
Whiteboards and discharge traffic lights: Visual management in acute care (Flinders Medical Centre, Australia)
posted by Research Admin on 2015-01-20 12:15:59.716
This article, published in the Australian Health Review, provides a brief overview of visual management principles and gives two case…
-
Karori Medical Centre – supporting patients with cardiovascular disease and diabetes
posted by WM Admin on 2014-12-05 09:41:15.964
The Ministry of Health has published a number of stories that show how Karori Medical Centre in Wellington is helping…
-
Stoke-on-Trent: Telehealth helps patients manage their own conditions (England)
posted by WM Admin on 2014-11-24 13:42:22.424
The Advice and Interactive text Messaging (AIM) for Health programme began across England in March 2013. The programme included: lead…
-
Systems improvement for Faster Cancer Treatment at Lakes DHB
posted by WM Admin on 2014-11-12 12:55:10.172
Lakes DHB provides care to a population of around 100,000 in the Rotorua and Taupo districts. Around 18 patients each…
-
The cancer pathway – one patient’s experience
posted by WM Admin on 2014-11-07 13:54:47.666
Christchurch rental car manager Norm McDonald was fit and well when he first noticed blood when going to the toilet…
-
Systems improvement for faster cancer treatment at Wairarapa DHB
posted by WM Admin on 2014-11-07 12:03:00.465
With its relatively small population, Wairarapa DHB is not a cancer treatment centre, but local people have access to the…
