The Patient Safety Research Programme (PSRP) agrees with Stryer and
Clancy. Creating a patient safety culture is a crucial area, that could
lead to sustainable improvements in safety. However, before steps can be
taken to change safety culture we first need to accurately measure the
construct and then explore its impact on measures of performance. We have
a call that is currently being advertised to look at this very topic.
Triangulation of Standard Patient Safety Tools, Ethnographic Approaches to the Assessment of Culture, and Direct Measurements of the Quality of Clinical Care
The Programme wishes to invite proposals to validate standard patient
safety culture tools by comparing them with more in-depth ethnographic
approaches, and to determine the extent to which safety culture (as
assessed by each method) and direct measurements of the quality of
clinical care are related. The evaluation of these three approaches will
take place contemporaneously in one or more healthcare settings that have
diverse safety cultures.
Up to 500K has been made available for this project, and the work
should be completed within 3 years. The closing date for applications is
2pm 1st of April.
Application forms for this single round process should be obtained
from http://pcpoh.bham.ac.uk/publichealth/psrp/ or by contacting Jo Foster
our Academic Manager on 0121 414 3573 or fosterjm@medgp3.bham.ac.uk. or
Nathalie Maillard our Research Associate on 0121 414 2634 or
n.c.maillard@bham.ac.uk
Competing interests:
None declared
Competing interests:
No competing interests
15 March 2005
Dr Nicola J Gilbert
Research Fellow / research comissioner
Patient Safety Research Programme, Public Health, The University of Birmingham, B15 2TT
Rapid Response:
Patient Safety Culture Tools
The Patient Safety Research Programme (PSRP) agrees with Stryer and Clancy. Creating a patient safety culture is a crucial area, that could lead to sustainable improvements in safety. However, before steps can be taken to change safety culture we first need to accurately measure the construct and then explore its impact on measures of performance. We have a call that is currently being advertised to look at this very topic.
Triangulation of Standard Patient Safety Tools, Ethnographic Approaches to the Assessment of Culture, and Direct Measurements of the Quality of Clinical Care
The Programme wishes to invite proposals to validate standard patient safety culture tools by comparing them with more in-depth ethnographic approaches, and to determine the extent to which safety culture (as assessed by each method) and direct measurements of the quality of clinical care are related. The evaluation of these three approaches will take place contemporaneously in one or more healthcare settings that have diverse safety cultures.
Up to 500K has been made available for this project, and the work should be completed within 3 years. The closing date for applications is 2pm 1st of April.
Application forms for this single round process should be obtained from http://pcpoh.bham.ac.uk/publichealth/psrp/ or by contacting Jo Foster our Academic Manager on 0121 414 3573 or fosterjm@medgp3.bham.ac.uk. or Nathalie Maillard our Research Associate on 0121 414 2634 or n.c.maillard@bham.ac.uk
Competing interests: None declared
Competing interests: No competing interests