Safety & quality
Clinical practice improvement graduate projects
This page has a list of improvement projects undertaken by clinicians who have graduated from the Clinical practice improvement (CPI) course.
Each summary report contains information about where and when the project was undertaken, who was involved, the background to the improvement, the interventions undertaken and the outcomes achieved.
Note: You can search the page below using ctrl F (hold down the ctrl key and hit the letter F) then type in your keyword (eg medication, identification, pressure) in the search box at the top of the screen and press enter.
Summary reports
Communication
- Communication for best care (PDF 193KB)
- Communication problems during the organ donation process (PDF 218KB)
- Improving the two way communication about patients between Medical Imaging at Murray Bridge and external facilities (PDF 111KB)
- "Mental Health, SAAS and SAPOL" Developing seamless communication with a cost effective approach (PDF 207KB)
- Revised admission assessment form (PDF 106KB)
Correct patient, correct procedure, correct site
- Correct patient, correct procedure, correct site in radiology (PDF 137KB)
- Right patient / right treatment in radiation oncology (PDF 102KB)
Day surgery
- Carpe Diem (Seize the Day) (PDF 252KB)
- Increasing day case surgery rates for inguinal and umbilical herniae and laparoscopic cholecystectomies (PDF 48KB)
Deteriorating patient
- Recognition and Management of Deteriorating Patients at Noarlunga Hospital (PDF 302KB)
- Reduce mortality, number of Medical Emergency Team calls and unplanned admissions to ICU of inpatients with fractured necks of femur (PDF 156KB)
- Reducing the incidence of the “Worried” Medical Emergency Team call category, associated with low or decreased oxygen saturation, within the Royal Adelaide Hospital (PDF 1349KB)
Falls
- Improving access to Allied Health falls services in the Noarlunga Emergency Department (PDF 54KB)
- Mobility Care Plan documentation (PDF 140KB)
Hand hygiene
Management of clinical conditions
- Anaemia management of elective colorectal cancer clients (PDF 153KB)
- Anaphylaxis patient discharge management from emergency departments within SAHS (PDF 124KB)
- Better management of patients with cystic fibrosis in SA when being considered for a lung transplant (PDF 80KB)
- Bladder and urinary retention management (PDF 36KB)
- Blood tests in post surgical patients (PDF 148KB)
- COPD Action Plan continuum between acute and primary health care (PDF 154KB)
- Decreasing readmission rates due to post-op infections in patients who have undergone laparoscopic/open appendicectomy, cholecystectomy and hernia repairs on Ward 5D at FMC (PDF 62KB)
- I Guide - Patient oriented goal setting on the Flinders Comprehensive Stroke Unit (PDF 209KB)
- Improved management and LOS for women who re-admit with LSCS complication (PDF 289KB)
- Improving management of chemotoxicity in elderly cancer patients (PDF 106KB)
- Improving risk factor management for vascular inpatients (PDF 215KB)
- Improving the management of aggressive traumatic brain injured patients (PDF 145KB)
- Management of ED hard-collar patients in Radiology (PDF 206KB)
- Operation S.T.O.P. - to prevent septal trauma occurring in our premmies (PDF 142KB)
- Plug the platelets (PDF 163KB)
- Q STAT (PDF 107KB)
- Reduce the rate of infection in elective neurosurgical patients (PDF 165KB)
- Reducing door to balloon times in STEMIs (PDF 91KB)
- Reducing hypothermia in cardiac surgery (PDF 158KB)
- Reducing length of stay in surgical AB emergency patients (PDF 174KB)
- Reducing length of stay post stroke (PDF 142KB)
- Reducing the rate of anastomotic leaks in bowel surgery (PDF 114KB)
- Stop That Bug - On the road to decreasing VRE transmission in FMC ICCU (PDF 100KB)
- To see feet or not to see feet (PDF 159KB)
- Ureteric stents (PDF 182KB)
- Who am I Where am I (PDF 167KB)
Medication
- Discharge medications (PDF 89KB)
- Faster discharge medications (PDF 128KB)
- Lost in translation a review of 24 hour medication infusions for neonates (PDF 124KB)
- Medication omission from lack of drug availability (PDF 144KB)
- Medication omission project (PDF 145KB)
- Medication omissions - Lyell McEwin Hospital (PDF 211KB)
- Medication omissions - Repatriation General Hospital (PDF 117KB)
- Reducing medication errors (PDF 313KB)
- Reducing medication omissions (PDF 241KB)
- Increase Drug Use (PDF 374KB)
Mental health
- Engagement of clients with ACIS (PDF 188KB)
- Improving the engagement of Mobile Assertive Care clients (PDF 242KB)
- Improving the gastrointestinal assessment of mental health consumers who are on clozapine and or dual antipsychotics which leads to better health outcomes for the consumer. (PDF 99KB)
- Improving the management of frequent mental health presenters to the Lyell McEwin emergency department (PDF 99KB)
- Metabolic screening for psychiatric inpatient (PDF 196KB)
- Reducing unplanned readmissions to a children’s psychiatric ward (PDF 270KB)
- Reduction of readmissions within 28 day to adult psychiatric inpatient units (PDF 272KB)
- Transfer of care in a community setting (PDF 188KB)
Nutrition
- Identifying nutrition risk implementation of a malnutrition screening tool (PDF 126KB)
- Patients admitted under Acute Medical Unit will be screened for malnutrition by the admitting medical team and appropriate nutritional management will be instituted (PDF 68KB)
- Undiagnosed malnutrition in cirrhotic patients (PDF 149KB)
Outpatients
- Ensuring Allied Health Services delivered to the Mallee Coorong cluster meet appropriate professional standards (PDF 194KB)
- Improving waiting times for hand plastics outpatients (PDF 173KB)
- Managing dermatology outpatient clinics (PDF 247KB)
- Pre-Obstetric booking visits at Flinders Medical Centre (PDF 143KB)
Patient flow
- Brain Injury Rehabilitation Unit Discharge Delay Project (PDF 105KB)
- Gastroenterology discharge delays (PDF 119KB)
- Hospital & community discharge planning together (PDF 111KB)
- Improving the renal ward round (PDF 291KB)
- Improving wound care practices in Ward 5C (PDF 183KB)
- No wait for emergency theatres (PDF 296 KB)
- Patients admitted to the acute ward will have an individualised admission assessment form completed within 24 hours (PDF 100KB)
- Productive ward (PDF 230KB)
- Reducing variations in practices to reduce barriers to discharge (PDF 145KB)
- Joint Care Planning (PDF 139KB)
Patient identification
Contact
CPI Coordinator
Email: CPI@health.sa.gov.au
Telephone: (08) 8204 4868
