Explaining the negative effects of patient participation in patient safety: an exploratory qualitative study in an academic tertiary healthcare centre in the Netherlands.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Although previous studies largely emphasize the positive effects of patient participation in patient safety, negative effects have also been observed. This study focuses on bringing together the separate negative effects that have been previously reported in the literature. This study set out to uncover how these negative effects manifest themselves in practice within an obstetrics department.

Design

An exploratory qualitative interview study with 16 in-depth semistructured interviews. The information contained in the interviews was deductively analysed.

Setting

The study was conducted in one tertiary academic healthcare centre in the Netherlands.

Participants

Patients (N=8) and professionals (N=8) from an obstetrics department.

Results

The res

SUBMITTER: Van der Voorden M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9827266 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature