Patient's Perception of Hospital Safety

Study Overview
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Brief Summary
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The study aims to construct and validate a self-administrated questionnaire to assess the patients' perception of patient safety in surgical care units. The originality of the study is to perform sociological interviews of hospitalized patients to assess their own perception on the safety of their care and to create corresponding items which will be included in a new questionnaire. In a second step, patients' perception of patient safety will be assessed in numerous surgical care units in France, in order to analyze the psychometric properties of the questionnaire and consequently to validate the questionnaire. The patients' perception will be compared to the healthcare professionals' perception on patient safety and to the patient safety strategies in place in the care units.

Official Title
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Patient's Perception of Hospital Safety: Measure of the Patients' Perception and Correlation With Patient Safety Strategies in the Surgical Care Units

Conditions
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Patient Safety in Surgical Care Units

Intervention / Treatment
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* Other: Sociological interview
* Other: Self-administrated questionnaire


Participation Criteria
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Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria: Patient hospitalized in a surgical care unit for at least 1 night stay Patient hospitalized for a scheduled surgery French speaking patient Exclusion Criteria: Ambulatory surgery Hospitalization in emergency Unable to answer a survey Patient transfer from another unit of the same hospital

Ages Eligible for Study
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Minimum Age: 18 Years

Sexes Eligible for Study
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All

Accepts Healthy Volunteers
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No

Study Plan
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How is the study designed?
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Arms and Interventions

| Participant Group/Arm | Intervention/Treatment |
| --- | --- |
| Sociological interview<br>Patients will take a sociological interview with a sociologist during their hospital stay | Other: Sociological interview<br>* A sociological interview will be performed with each patient by a sociologist, during their hospital stay<br>|
| Self-administrated questionnaire<br>Patients will take a self-administrated questionnaire at the end of their hospital stay and one week after they left hospital | Other: Self-administrated questionnaire<br>* Self-administrated questionnaire will be performed by patients themselves at the end of hospital stay and one week after they left hospital<br>|

What is the study measuring?
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Primary Outcome Measures

| Outcome Measure | Measure Description | Time Frame |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Patient's perception of patient safety in hospital measured by sociological interviews (qualitative outcome) | This qualitative outcome is measured by sociological interviews of hospitalized patients to construct a new questionnaire. Sociological interviews will be analyzed to identify items and dimensions of the patient's perception to introduce in the questionnaire. | During patient's hospital stay, up to 2 weeks | 

Secondary Outcome Measures

| Outcome Measure | Measure Description | Time Frame |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Care safety perception score | This score is measured by patient himself thanks to the self-administrated questionnaire | 7 days after patient left hospital | 
| Care safety perception score | This score is measured by patient himself thanks to the self-administrated questionnaire | The day patient leave hospital, up to 2 weeks | 
| Patient Safety Strategies (PSS) score | The PSS questionnaire is completed for each patient by health care professionals | During patient's hospital stay, up to 2 weeks | 

 Terms related to the study
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Keywords Provided by Centre Hospitalier Valida
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patient safety culture, hospital, patient perception, healthcare professional perception, sociological, qualitative, questionnaire construct, psychometrics