"We want patient safety education" - Innovation in patient safety postgraduate medical education in the European Union: differences in consumers' priority, education systems and health care quality

Reinders, A.H.H. (Angelique) (2012) "We want patient safety education" - Innovation in patient safety postgraduate medical education in the European Union: differences in consumers' priority, education systems and health care quality. thesis, Other studies (UMCG).

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Abstract

Introduction This thesis is about user-driven innovation in patient safety in postgraduate education. It is undertaken on a European level, where eight countries are analyzed. The relation between user involvement and the degree of innovation in patient safety in postgraduate education is analyzed by linking the degree of consumer awareness with the degree five different patient safety innovation factors are represented Method The influence of patient safety innovation on healthcare quality is investigated by comparing the degree of patient safety innovation of the countries with its European quality rank places. Eight countries are investigated, namely Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Hungary, the Netherlands, Portugal, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. National experts are asked to fill in questionnaires and are interviewed. Besides, it is tried to complement the data by websites to make the research as objective as possible. The research is qualitative, since there are only eight countries investigated. The goal is to discover patterns on which future research can be build. Results It was found that user involvement is leading to more innovation in patient safety. So, user-driven innovation plays an important role in healthcare. Secondly, the environmental attitude is found to be essential for innovation. A transparent culture is leading to more consumer awareness, and consequently to more user-driven innovation. Besides, the amount of errors seem to lead to user involvement. A third finding is the coherency between the degree of innovation and the length of European memberships. The longer the country its membership is, the more patient safety innovation it has had. Expected is that the European Union stimulates transparency, leading to consumer awareness and thus to user-driven innovation. It also indicates that it will be hard to equalize the health care quality, as the age difference of members will persist. Conclusions User-driven innovation takes place in healthcare. It even plays a bigger role than was expected before. However, it is not one of the (main) factors leading to quality. Based on literature, it can be expected that it influences it, though there are a lot of other influences as well. However, the research is based on an existing database and has been qualitative. Besides, some countries did not participate fully. This could have reduced the objectivity. Further research would be adviced in more countries. Besides, quantitative research would be adviced to ensure objectivity.

Item Type:	Thesis (Thesis)
Supervisor name:	Meindinger, drs. A.K. (Abe)
Supervisor name:	Faria, dr. P. (Pedro) de
Faculty:	Economics and Business
Keywords:	Post-doctoraal medisch Onderwijs, Patientveiligheid, Innovatie
Date Deposited:	25 Jun 2020 11:02
Last Modified:	25 Jun 2020 11:02
URI:	https://umcg.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/2190

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