Every day, members of the CQuIPS community are working on quality improvement and patient safety initiatives to improve healthcare for both patients and providers. Earlier this year, we put a call out for abstracts for our first ever virtual poster presentation on CQUIPS+. With more than 50 incredible abstracts accepted, we are thrilled to share the first phase of posters, all amazing examples of QI research and scholarship. Please take a look and – if you\’re a CQUIPS+ member – share your thoughts by adding comments!
Acute care
- Improving Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Practices through Real-Time Observation and Coaching
- Potentially Avoidable Admissions to General Internal Medicine at an Academic Teaching Hospital
- Using ‘CBR’ to Improve CPR – Creation of Code Blue Rounds to Improve Resident Physicians’ Response to Code Blues
- \’Work-as-Experienced\’ and the Significance of Relational Safety: Learning from Patient Experiences of QI Implementation
Ambulatory care
- Ensuring Patients have Timely Access to their Information and Care Team
- Optimizing Non-Pharmacologic Management of Gout: A Quality Improvement Project
- Rheumatology Virtual Triage: Factors Determining Patients’ Appropriateness for In-Person or Virtual First Triage Visit
Diagnostic testing
- Improving Safety for Dobutamine Stress Echocardiogram Procedures by Standardizing Workflow
- Reducing Unnecessary Fine Needle Aspiration Biopsies in the Evaluation of Thyroid Nodules
Emergency medicine
- Clinical Handover from Paramedic Services to the Trauma Team: A Video Review Analysis of the IMIST-AMBO Protocol Implementation
- Flattening the Other Curve: Reducing Emergency Department STEMI Delays during the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Decreasing Healthcare Provider Exposure to SARS-COV-2 in the Emergency Department using a Novel Transceiver Device
- Improving Time to Analgesia for Adult Emergency Department Patients with Sickle Cell Vaso-Occlusive Crises: Interim Process Measures Report
- Reducing Unnecessary Bloodwork in the Emergency Department
- The Virtual Emergency Department (VIRTUE) Project: Improved Access and Reduced Costs for Emergency Services through Virtual Emergency Department Consultations
Geriatrics
- Addressing Loneliness in Older Adults with a Social Prescription during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Quality Improvement Initiative
- Is it “Virtually” Possible? Caring for Patients with Dementia in the Era of COVID-19
- The Development of a Patient Navigator Program for Seniors with Complex Needs in Toronto, Ontario
Long-term care
- Assessment of Extent of Food Waste and Its Contributing Factors Within Canada’s Largest Veterans Care Facility
- Improving Access to Care in LTC and Retirement Homes during COVID using Virtual Care
- Long-Term Care Nurses\’ Experiences with Patient Safety Incident Management: A Qualitative Approach
Mental health
- Decreasing the Use of Restraints in an Inpatient Psychiatry Ward by Strengthening Communication among the Interprofessional Team
- Hope by CAMH: An app-based approach to Suicide Safety Planning
- Measuring Up? A QI Project Considering Measurement-based Care for Inpatient Psychiatry
- Social Support, Tracking Distress, Education and Discussion Community (STEADY) Staff Wellness Program: Mitigating Post Traumatic Stress Injury in Healthcare Workers During COVID-19
OB-GYN
- Assessing Stakeholder Perspectives towards the Implementation of a Postpartum Hemorrhage (PPH) Bundle in an Academic Obstetrical Unit
- Comprehensive Perioperative Care Program to Improve Same-Day Discharge after Minimally Invasive Gynecologic Oncology Surgery
- Decreasing Caesarean Section using a Trial of Labour After Caesarean (TOLAC) Bundle
- Effects of a Trial of Labour After Cesarean (TOLAC) Bundle on Decreasing Cesarean Delivery Rates: Efficacy and Safety at Fifteen Months Post-Intervention
- Impact of a “Blood Conservation Bundle” Checklist on Perioperative Transfusion Rates During Myomectomy
- Optimizing the Screening and Management of Preoperative Anemia Prior to Gynecologic Oncology Surgery (OPRA): A Quality Improvement Study
- Take Control. Period. – Preliminary Data from an Interactive Patient Education Website Designed to Enhance Adherence to Tranexamic Acid and Iron Supplementation in Women with Heavy Menstrual Bleeding
Oncology
- National Consensus Quality Indicators to Assess Quality of Care for Active Surveillance in Low-Risk Prostate Cancer: An Evidence-Informed Modified Delphi Survey of Canadian Urologists/Radiation Oncologists
- What’s the Hold Up: Using Quality Improvement Processes to Decrease Appointment Wait Times for New Radiation Therapy Patients in a Large Academic Cancer Centre
Palliative care
Perioperative care
- Assessing Surgical Teamwork Competencies During Moments of Uncertainty, and their Relationship to Adverse Events, Using OR Black Box
- Perioperative Antibiotic Prophylaxis and Penicillin Allergies: Challenging Misconceptions and Improving Care
Primary care
- A Pharmacist-Led Intervention to Reduce Opioid-Benzodiazepine Co- Prescribing in Primary Care
- Development of a Diabetes Outreach Initiative by Multidisciplinary Team Members within an Urban Family Health Team
- Improving Hospital Discharge Care in Community-Based Primary Care Clinics
Rehabilitation
- Avoiding Transfusions through Anemia Care
- Customized Prehabilitation Prescription for Patients Awaiting Vascular Surgery: A Quality Improvement Project
- The Canadian Quality Improvement and Patient Safety in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Survey
- Virtual Rehabilitation as a Health System Solution for Patients with Dysautonomia
