Reflection in practice: How can patient experience feedback trigger staff reflection in hospital acute care settings?
Abstract Background Patient and staff experiences provide important insights into care quality, but health systems have difficulty using these data to improve care. Little attention has been paid to understanding how patient experience feedback can act as a prompt to reflection in practice in the cl...
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| author | Jennifer Jones Julian Bion Celia Brown Janet Willars Olivia Brookes Carolyn Tarrant the PEARL collaboration |
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| description | Abstract Background Patient and staff experiences provide important insights into care quality, but health systems have difficulty using these data to improve care. Little attention has been paid to understanding how patient experience feedback can act as a prompt to reflection in practice in the clinical setting. Objective We aimed to identify the ways in which different types of patient experience feedback act as a trigger or prompt for engagement in reflection in clinical practice in acute hospital settings and identify important considerations for enhancing the value of patient experience data for reflective learning. Methods We conducted an ethnographic study in eight acute care units in three NHS hospital trusts in England, including 140 hours of observations and 45 semi‐structured interviews with nursing, medical and managerial staff working in acute medical units and intensive care units. The data were analysed thematically. Findings We distinguished between formal patient experience data sources: data purposively collected and collated to capture the patient experience of care, generally at organizational level, including surveys, complaints and comments; and informal sources of feedback on the patient experience recognized by staff alongside the formal data. We also identified patient narratives as an ‘in between’ source of data. The impact of different types of patient feedback in triggering reflection primarily depended on the extent to which the feedback was experienced as personally relevant, meaningful and emotionally salient. Discussion Patient experience feedback is multi‐faceted, but our study suggests that all types of feedback could be harnessed more effectively to prompt reflection. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-43bf62b092ce43ac91ed6e57eba8ec582022-12-21T21:03:53ZengWileyHealth Expectations1369-65131369-76252020-04-0123239640410.1111/hex.13010Reflection in practice: How can patient experience feedback trigger staff reflection in hospital acute care settings?Jennifer Jones0Julian Bion1Celia Brown2Janet Willars3Olivia Brookes4Carolyn Tarrant5the PEARL collaborationHealth Sciences department University of Leicester Leicester UKIntensive Care Medicine University of Birmingham Birmingham UKWarwick Medical School The University of Warwick Warwick UKHealth Sciences department University of Leicester Leicester UKResearch Development and Innovation University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust Birmingham UKHealth Sciences department University of Leicester Leicester UKAbstract Background Patient and staff experiences provide important insights into care quality, but health systems have difficulty using these data to improve care. Little attention has been paid to understanding how patient experience feedback can act as a prompt to reflection in practice in the clinical setting. Objective We aimed to identify the ways in which different types of patient experience feedback act as a trigger or prompt for engagement in reflection in clinical practice in acute hospital settings and identify important considerations for enhancing the value of patient experience data for reflective learning. Methods We conducted an ethnographic study in eight acute care units in three NHS hospital trusts in England, including 140 hours of observations and 45 semi‐structured interviews with nursing, medical and managerial staff working in acute medical units and intensive care units. The data were analysed thematically. Findings We distinguished between formal patient experience data sources: data purposively collected and collated to capture the patient experience of care, generally at organizational level, including surveys, complaints and comments; and informal sources of feedback on the patient experience recognized by staff alongside the formal data. We also identified patient narratives as an ‘in between’ source of data. The impact of different types of patient feedback in triggering reflection primarily depended on the extent to which the feedback was experienced as personally relevant, meaningful and emotionally salient. Discussion Patient experience feedback is multi‐faceted, but our study suggests that all types of feedback could be harnessed more effectively to prompt reflection.https://doi.org/10.1111/hex.13010acute carepatient experiencestaff reflection |
| spellingShingle | Jennifer Jones Julian Bion Celia Brown Janet Willars Olivia Brookes Carolyn Tarrant the PEARL collaboration Reflection in practice: How can patient experience feedback trigger staff reflection in hospital acute care settings? Health Expectations acute care patient experience staff reflection |
| title | Reflection in practice: How can patient experience feedback trigger staff reflection in hospital acute care settings? |
| title_full | Reflection in practice: How can patient experience feedback trigger staff reflection in hospital acute care settings? |
| title_fullStr | Reflection in practice: How can patient experience feedback trigger staff reflection in hospital acute care settings? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Reflection in practice: How can patient experience feedback trigger staff reflection in hospital acute care settings? |
| title_short | Reflection in practice: How can patient experience feedback trigger staff reflection in hospital acute care settings? |
| title_sort | reflection in practice how can patient experience feedback trigger staff reflection in hospital acute care settings |
| topic | acute care patient experience staff reflection |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1111/hex.13010 |
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