Patient and staff lived experience of early discharge. Version 1
Research type
Research Study
Full title
A Study of the lived experiences of patients post-discharge and clinical staff involved in their care in an innovative Generic Model of Early Supported Discharge service for patients with long-term conditions and post-surgery.
IRAS ID
337881
Contact name
Mary Christina Bup
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
University of West London
Clinicaltrials.gov Identifier
N/A, N/A
Duration of Study in the UK
1 years, 2 months, 9 days
Research summary
The research Question: What are the lived experiences of patients and clinical staff involved in their care post-discharge in a generic (non-specialist) Early Supported Discharge (ESD) service for patients with long-term conditions and post-surgery?
The areas of study: Early supported discharge in an NHS hospital.The study will last more than one year, and the participants will be interviewed,
The Early Supported Discharge (ESD) model aims to connect acute and community care, enabling hospital in-patients to go home whilst still receiving the required acute care input from clinicians that they would typically receive in the hospital. The researcher comprehended that the ESD literature is mostly about stroke and specialist chronic disease-specific discharges, leading to gaps in implementing a generic ESD service. The main objective of the research is to examine the lived experience of clinical staff and patients who have used the ESD service. The study will use Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) to investigate in-depth subjective meaning. Therefore the sampling strategy will be a purposeful homogenous sample and using semi-structured interviews for the participants. The IPA framework will analyse the data, emphasising the convergence and divergence of experience. The research is focused on a generic model envisaged to promote advanced clinical practice, which is the National Health Service's long-term workforce plan and helps to minimise the gap between disease-specific services and multiple long-term conditions. The research could have a broader approach to the National Health Service (NHS) transformation due to the current pressure to improve patient flow in the hospital. Furthermore, by understanding the themes emerging from the study, future policies and practices will enable acute and community services to offer better support for discharged patients. The research will also identify areas in the ESD pathway that can be used to inform future research and guidelines.REC name
Yorkshire & The Humber - Leeds East Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
24/YH/0171
Date of REC Opinion
3 Sep 2024
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion