SAPPHIRE Spotlight: Emmilie Aveling
This week’s SAPPHIRE Spotlight profile will focus on the very exciting work of Dr Emmilie (Emma-Louise) Aveling. Emmilie is a Research Fellow in the SAPPHIRE group, who specialises in applied qualitative research in the fields of global health and healthcare quality and safety. Emmilie is currently based at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, […]
The risks of feeding back the results of clinical trials to participants
Feeding back the results of clinical trials to participants has long been seen as good ethical research practice, and new guidance from the Health Research Authority, the national regulatory body for research in England, makes it clear that feedback is part of researchers’ commitment to participants. But what are the consequences of sharing results […]
Feasibility of using the Patient Activation Measure in the NHS
Introduction: The challenge of person-centred care Over recent years the push for the NHS to become more person-centred has been mounting, with increasing attention paid both to the importance of patients’ experiences of care and supporting them to manage their own health. This emphasis is made clear in the vision laid out in the NHS […]
The necessary discomfort of soft intelligence
It’s comforting to have hard facts and figures so that we can feel like we know exactly what went wrong and what went right. When the data in question speak to patient safety, to the need to prevent harm to patients and their families, the urge to find the answers in ‘the facts’ may be […]
Using Theory in Improvement Research
A recently published paper seems the perfect start to this blog, exemplifying as it does SAPPHIRE’s concern with integrating the theory of social science academia with the practical world of healthcare improvement research. Mary Dixon-Woods and colleagues propose that better use of theory could enhance improvement efforts in quality and safety in healthcare. A popular […]
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