The primary care patient safety guide
Research type
Research Study
Full title
The primary care patient safety guide: a qualitative study exploring the implementation of the handbook with patients
IRAS ID
203714
Contact name
Stephen Campbell
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
University of Manchester
Duration of Study in the UK
0 years, 6 months, 31 days
Research summary
A key challenge of primary care patient safety is how to keep patients safe in the potentially hazardous environment of healthcare. Interventions to improve primary care patient safety need to move beyond involving patients in the identification of errors to actively involving them in preventing and reducing them. An experience based co-design (EBCD) approach has been used to develop, implement and evaluate participatory approaches in quality improvement initiatives. Whilst the EBCD approaches may be tailored, the underlying principle is to work in collaboration with those who will be the end-users of the intended initiatives, in this case patients, families, carers and health care staff within primary care. This project will use an EBCD approach to develop a patient safety handbook and has an embedded qualitative study where in-depth interviews will be conducted with patients and carers to identify processes that may enable or constrain its implementation into routine care.
REC name
Yorkshire & The Humber - Sheffield Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
16/YH/0496
Date of REC Opinion
2 Dec 2016
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion