Identifying primary care patient safety research priorities in the UK: a James Lind Alliance Priority Setting Partnership.

ABSTRACT: OBJECTIVES:To identify the top 10 unanswered research questions for primary care patient safety research. DESIGN:A modified nominal group technique. SETTING:UK. PARTICIPANTS:Anyone with experience of primary care including: patients, carers and healthcare professionals. 341 patients and 86 healthcare professionals submitted questions. MAIN OUTCOMES:A top 10, and top 30, future research questions for primary care patient safety. RESULTS:443 research questions were submitted by 341 patients and 86 healthcare professionals, through a national survey. After checking for relevance and rephrasing, a total of 173 questions were collated into themes. The themes were largely focused on communication, team and system working, interfaces across primary and secondary care, medication, self-management

SUBMITTER: Morris RL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5855454 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature