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We have a collected a number of examples of QIA which we have organised into individual case studies as list below.  The case studies are submitted by doctors and all documents have been anonymised.  The examples shared are to illustrate the type of QIA material that appraisees could submit for their appraisal.

To search for specific QIA examples, start typing in keywords in the search box below.

If you wish to submit a case study for sharing, please email SOAR@nes.scot.nhs.uk and we will work with you to anonymise the materials and go from there.


Search Results

Number of Results Found: 4 - when searching for referral

All case studies

Arthroscopic Rotator Cuff Repair

Speciality:
  • Surgeons
QIA Types:
  • Audit

Audit of Antibiotic Prescribing

Speciality:
  • GP
QIA Types:
  • Review of Prescribing
  • Audit

Audit Of Colorectal Reporting

Speciality:
  • Pathology
QIA Types:
  • Audit

Audit of delays in CT scans after stroke

Speciality:
  • Radiologist
QIA Types:
  • Audit

Audit of Discharge Letters

Speciality:
  • Medical Management
QIA Types:
  • Audit

Audit of Nephrostomy (for Patients with Hyperkalaemia)

Speciality:
  • Radiologist
QIA Types:
  • Audit

Candida Audit

Speciality:
  • Sexual / Reproductive Health
QIA Types:
  • Review of Prescribing

Central and Peripheral Venous Cannula

Speciality:
  • Radiologist
QIA Types:
  • Audit

Consensus for Condition Management

Speciality:
  • Oncology
QIA Types:
  • Protocol
  • Service Development

Doctors bag - Audit

Speciality:
  • GP
QIA Types:
  • Audit

Gestational Diabetes Mellitus

Speciality:
  • GP
QIA Types:
  • Audit

GP Locum Quality Improvement Tool

Speciality:
  • GP
QIA Types:
  • Surveys and Questionnaires

GP Orthopaedic Referral

Speciality:
  • GP
QIA Types:
  • Referral

Healthcare Associated Infection - Position Report

Speciality:
  • Medical Management
QIA Types:
  • Hospital Acquired Infection (HAI)

Improving Fluid Prescription

Speciality:
  • Intensive Care Medicine
QIA Types:
  • Protocol
  • Service Development

Infection Prevention and Control in Critical Care

Speciality:
  • Intensive Care Medicine
QIA Types:
  • Patient Safety

Introducing a transfer acceptance sheet to a community hospital

Speciality:
  • GP
QIA Types:
  • Patient Safety

Metastatic Cancer of Unknown Primary (mCUP)

Speciality:
  • Oncology
QIA Types:
  • Audit
  • Service Development

MSF Reflection for GP

Speciality:
  • GP
QIA Types:
  • MSF

Oncology - Protocol Review

Speciality:
  • Oncology
QIA Types:
  • Protocol
  • Service Development

Patient Contraceptive Choice Questionnaire

Speciality:
  • GP
QIA Types:
  • Personal Development
  • Service Development
  • Surveys and Questionnaires

Patient Satisfaction Questionnaire

Speciality:
  • GP
QIA Types:
  • Surveys and Questionnaires

Phototherapy near misses meeting minutes

Speciality:
  • Dermatology
QIA Types:
  • Audit
  • Patient Safety
  • Protocol

Prescribing Case Review

Speciality:
  • GP
QIA Types:
  • Case Review
  • Review of Prescribing

Reducing Proton Pump Inhibitor (PPI) prescription

Speciality:
  • GP
QIA Types:
  • Patient Safety

Referrals: GP to secondary care

Speciality:
  • GP
QIA Types:
  • Referral

Review of Complaints handling

Speciality:
  • Pathology
QIA Types:
  • Case Review

Review of Prescription (Metoclopramide)

Speciality:
  • GP
QIA Types:
  • Review of Prescribing

Review of Quinine Prescribing in Nocturnal Leg Cramps

Speciality:
  • GP
QIA Types:
  • Review of Prescribing

Screening for Vitamin D Deficiency

Speciality:
  • Forensic Medicine
QIA Types:
  • Patient Safety

SEA - Patient with low INR

Speciality:
  • GP
QIA Types:
  • SEA

SEA Report - Cremation Form Problem

Speciality:
  • GP
QIA Types:
  • SEA

SEA Report - Patient Collapse

Speciality:
  • GP
QIA Types:
  • SEA

SEA report - Possible Legionnaires Case

Speciality:
  • GP
QIA Types:
  • SEA

Skin Lesion Excision Audit

Speciality:
  • Surgeons
QIA Types:
  • Audit

Surgeons - ENT Audit

Speciality:
  • ENT doctors
  • Surgeons
QIA Types:
  • Audit
  • Surveys and Questionnaires

Surgical management of otitis media with effusion in children

Speciality:
  • ENT doctors
  • Surgeons
QIA Types:
  • Audit

Survey for GP Locums

Speciality:
  • GP
QIA Types:
  • Surveys and Questionnaires

Tapering and Stopping Biologic Therapy in RA

Speciality:
  • Rheumatology
QIA Types:
  • Protocol
  • Service Development

Telemedicine for ENT endoscopy

Speciality:
  • ENT doctors
QIA Types:
  • Service Development

Telephone Consultations in Secondary Care Rheumatology Clinics

Speciality:
  • Rheumatology
QIA Types:
  • Service Development

The use of Antibiotics

Speciality:
  • GP
QIA Types:
  • Audit

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