Patient perceptions of the discharge process at the RLBUHT v1
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Patient perceptions of the discharge process at the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen Hospital Trust (RLBUHT)
IRAS ID
178518
Contact name
Sally Bullock
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
Liverpool John Moores University
Duration of Study in the UK
0 years, 4 months, 0 days
Research summary
A lack of patient perceptions and involvement in the discharge process from hospital was highlighted by a literature review and a prior study by the researcher. As a result of this, this study will investigate the discharge process at the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen Hospital Trust (RLBUHT) from the patient’s perspective. In particular, the study will focus on the aspect of medication supply for discharge.
This study forms part of a larger PhD study, which aims to develop a new model of care for the discharge of patients from hospital back into the community. This research is important to allow the development of a new model of care that incorporates patient feedback. As the service users, patients will bring an essential viewpoint to the study which may not be considered by healthcare providers developing health and social care services.
The study itself will take place at RLBUHT over a two week period, and will involve questionnaires with patients waiting to be discharged from a range of medical and surgical wards in the hospital. The questionnaire contains mostly closed questions, with space provided to expand on certain thoughts or answers. This will result in mainly quantitative data, which will be analysed using descriptive statistics in order to establish the majority of patient views. Any extra information provided by patients will be used to explain answers and be useful in later stages of the PhD as a rationale for developing the new model of care.REC name
South Central - Berkshire B Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
15/SC/0669
Date of REC Opinion
29 Oct 2015
REC opinion
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