Bringing the patient voice into the operating room: engaging patients in surgical safety research with the Operating Room Black Box^®.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Surgery is one of the most common patient experiences in the health care system. Yet, efforts to engage patients in surgical safety research have not matched those of other health care fields. This is a critical issue given the nature of surgery inhibits patients' abilities to advocate for themselves as they are typically under anesthetic when the procedure is performed. We partnered with patients throughout our research program, which uses the Operating Room Black Box^® to enhance surgical patient safety through transparent and proactive analysis of human factors to detect and prevent avoidable errors.

Main body

In this article, we outline the need for, and our approach to, patient engagement in surgical safety research. Our approach included a series o

SUBMITTER: Etherington C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9308267 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature