Improving Respiratory Rate Accuracy in the Hospital: A Quality Improvement Initiative

Improving Fellows’ Presentations at Case-Conference: A Quality Improvement Initiative

Improving the quality of telephone-delivered health care: a national quality improvement transformation initiative.

BACKGROUND Many Veterans Affairs (VA) primary care (PC) patients prefer telephone-delivered care to other health care delivery modalities. OBJECTIVE To evaluate PC patients' telephone experiences and outcomes before and after a national telephone transformation quality improvement (QI) collaborative. METHODS Cross-sectional surveys were conducted pre- and post-collaborative. We used bivaria...

Cardiac care quality indicators: a new hospital-level quality improvement initiative for cardiac care in Canada.

Health system stakeholders at different levels are focused more than ever on improvements to quality of care. With heart disease continuing to be a top health issue for Canadians, quality improvement initiatives aimed at improving cardiac care are increasingly important. The Cardiac Care Quality Indicators are one such initiative, with the goal of supporting cardiac care centres in their qualit...

Predicting Colonoscopy Time: A Quality Improvement Initiative

BACKGROUND/AIMS There is lack of consensus on the optimal time allotted for colonoscopy, which increases patient wait times. Our aim was to identify and quantify the individual pre-procedural factors that determine the total procedure time (TPT) of colonoscopy. METHODS This retrospective study involved 4,494 subjects, undergoing outpatient colonoscopy. Effects of age, sex, body mass index, ab...

Improving inpatient postnatal services: midwives views and perspectives of engagement in a quality improvement initiative

BACKGROUND Despite major policy initiatives in the United Kingdom to enhance women's experiences of maternity care, improving in-patient postnatal care remains a low priority, although it is an aspect of care consistently rated as poor by women. As part of a systems and process approach to improving care at one maternity unit in the South of England, the views and perspectives of midwives respo...