Patient Safety in Surgical Care Units
Conditions
Keywords
patient safety culture, hospital, patient perception, healthcare professional perception, sociological, qualitative, questionnaire construct, psychometrics
Brief summary
The study aims to construct and validate a self-administrated questionnaire to assess the patients' perception of patient safety in surgical care units. The originality of the study is to perform sociological interviews of hospitalized patients to assess their own perception on the safety of their care and to create corresponding items which will be included in a new questionnaire. In a second step, patients' perception of patient safety will be assessed in numerous surgical care units in France, in order to analyze the psychometric properties of the questionnaire and consequently to validate the questionnaire. The patients' perception will be compared to the healthcare professionals' perception on patient safety and to the patient safety strategies in place in the care units.
Interventions
A sociological interview will be performed with each patient by a sociologist, during their hospital stay
Self-administrated questionnaire will be performed by patients themselves at the end of hospital stay and one week after they left hospital
Sponsors
Hospices Civils de Lyon
Study design
Observational model
COHORT
Time perspective
PROSPECTIVE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* Patient hospitalized in a surgical care unit for at least 1 night stay * Patient hospitalized for a scheduled surgery * French speaking patient
Exclusion criteria
* Ambulatory surgery * Hospitalization in emergency * Unable to answer a survey * Patient transfer from another unit of the same hospital
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Patient's perception of patient safety in hospital measured by sociological interviews (qualitative outcome) | During patient's hospital stay, up to 2 weeks | This qualitative outcome is measured by sociological interviews of hospitalized patients to construct a new questionnaire. Sociological interviews will be analyzed to identify items and dimensions of the patient's perception to introduce in the questionnaire. |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Care safety perception score | 7 days after patient left hospital | This score is measured by patient himself thanks to the self-administrated questionnaire |
| Patient Safety Strategies (PSS) score | During patient's hospital stay, up to 2 weeks | The PSS questionnaire is completed for each patient by health care professionals |
Countries
France
Outcome results
None listed