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TY - JOUR
T1 - Patient-led training on patient safety
T2 - a pilot study to test the feasibility and acceptability of an educational intervention
AU - Jha, Vikram
AU - Winterbottom, A.
AU - Symons, Jools
AU - Thompson, Zoe
AU - Quinton, Naomi
AU - Corrado, O. J.
AU - Melville, Colin
AU - Watt, Ian
AU - Torgerson, D.
AU - Wright, J.
PY - 2013/9
Y1 - 2013/9
N2 - BACKGROUND: Training in patient safety is an important element of medical education. Most educational interventions on patient safety training adopt a 'health-professional lens' with limited consideration on the impact of safety lapses on the patient and their families and little or no involvement of patients in the design or delivery of the training.AIMS: This paper describes a pilot study to test the feasibility and acceptability of implementing a patient-led educational intervention to facilitate safety training amongst newly qualified doctors.METHOD: Patients and/or carers who had experienced harm during their care shared narratives of their stories with trainees; this was followed by a focused discussion on patient safety issues exploring the causes and consequences of safety incidents and lessons to be learned from these.RESULTS: The intervention, which will be further tested in an NIHR-funded randomised controlled trial (RCT), was successfully implemented into an existing training programme and found acceptance amongst the patients and trainees.CONCLUSION: The pilot study proved to be a useful step in refining the intervention for the RCT including identifying appropriate outcome measures and highlighting organisational issues.
AB - BACKGROUND: Training in patient safety is an important element of medical education. Most educational interventions on patient safety training adopt a 'health-professional lens' with limited consideration on the impact of safety lapses on the patient and their families and little or no involvement of patients in the design or delivery of the training.AIMS: This paper describes a pilot study to test the feasibility and acceptability of implementing a patient-led educational intervention to facilitate safety training amongst newly qualified doctors.METHOD: Patients and/or carers who had experienced harm during their care shared narratives of their stories with trainees; this was followed by a focused discussion on patient safety issues exploring the causes and consequences of safety incidents and lessons to be learned from these.RESULTS: The intervention, which will be further tested in an NIHR-funded randomised controlled trial (RCT), was successfully implemented into an existing training programme and found acceptance amongst the patients and trainees.CONCLUSION: The pilot study proved to be a useful step in refining the intervention for the RCT including identifying appropriate outcome measures and highlighting organisational issues.
KW - Adult
KW - Attitude of Health Personnel
KW - Curriculum
KW - Education, Medical, Graduate
KW - Feasibility Studies
KW - Female
KW - Humans
KW - Male
KW - Patient Safety
KW - Patients
KW - Pilot Projects
KW - Surveys and Questionnaires
KW - Teaching
U2 - 10.3109/0142159X.2013.778391
DO - 10.3109/0142159X.2013.778391
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 23527865
VL - 35
SP - e1464-e1471
JO - Medical Teacher
JF - Medical Teacher
SN - 0142-159X
IS - 9
ER -