Perspectives of paediatric hospital staff on factors influencing the sustainability and spread of a safety quality improvement programme.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Situation Awareness For Everyone (SAFE) is a quality improvement programme aiming to improve situation awareness in paediatric clinical teams. The aim of our study was to examine hospital staff perceptions of the facilitators and barriers/challenges to the sustaining and subsequent spread of the huddle, the key intervention of the SAFE programme.

Setting

Interviews were held on two wards in two children hospitals and on two children wards in two district general hospitals.

Method

Semistructured interviews were conducted with 23 staff members from four National Health Service paediatric wards. A deductive thematic analysis was conducted, drawing on an existing framework, which groups the factors influencing programme sustainability into four categories: innov

SUBMITTER: Lachman P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7986768 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature