Apps to Reduce the Impact That Adverse Events Among Health Professionals

Summary

Adverse events are also the cause of suffering in health professionals involved (second victims). This study has the aim of design and evaluates two applications for staff of hospital and primary care settings with the intention of improving their capacity to conduct Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and to help them introducing patient safety certification (PSC).

A single-blind randomized controlled trial shall conduct with a control and an experimental group (N=84) in both cases. The characteristics of both apps shall specify based on the suggestions of health professionals and shall design for Android and IOS (for iPhone or Ipad).

The randomly subjects in the control group shall receive oral and written information and the experimental group used App for two months. Pre- and post- measures shall include: patient safety knowledge and culture and self-perceived capacity to enhance RCA or follow-up PSC. In the experimental group, data shall also collect on their previous experience with information and communication technologies, their rating of each App. The inter-group intervention effects shall calculate by univariate linear models and ANOVA, with the pre- to post-intervention differences as the dependent variables.

Conditions

• Occupational Diseases

Interventions

DEVICE

Apps Root Cause Analysis or patient safety ISO certification

Apps for conducting RCA or PSC

OTHER

information package

Information on PSC and RCA

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Osakidetza

  collaborator OTHER

• Andaluz Health Service

  collaborator OTHER_GOV

• Servicio Madrileño de Salud, Madrid, Spain

  collaborator OTHER

• Servicio Valenciano de Salud

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Institut Català de la Salut

  collaborator OTHER

• Universidad Miguel Hernandez de Elche

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• José Mira, PhD · FISABIO/Universidad Miguel Hernández

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Masking

SINGLE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

25 Years

Max Age

65 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2016-01-31

Primary Completion

2016-01-31

Completion

2016-01-31

Countries

• Spain

Study Locations