Grant: Meetings, Planning and Dissemination Grant: Knowledge Translation

Our research team recently developed and published an instrument (PSE learning instrument) to measure learning responses following patient safety events (PSEs). The items in the instrument are grounded in theory, and reflect expert opinion as well as practice setting realities. The instrument has the potential for use to assess current practice and to set future improvement goals for patient safety. This MDP grant will be used to host a one-day PSE Learning Workshop in 2 health regions where researchers can interact with patient safety leaders and patient care managers to pursue the following two objectives: -O1: to disseminate (e.g. introduce, discuss and help interpret) our recently published PSE learning instrument in an effort to directly promote learning from PSEs -O2: to engage in researcher - knowledge user exchange designed to initiate research on unit-level learning responses to PSEs (the PSE learning instrument that will be shared in O1 was developed with organization level learning responses in mind) To evaluate the effectiveness of this workshop for enhancing PSE learning response, participants will complete the PSE learning instrument prior to and following the workshop (we follow a pretest-posttest control group design with a delayed intervention for the 2nd region). To facilitate O2, Café style discussion (Brown et al. 2005), which is designed to explore issues through candid dialogue and exchange, will be used. Ideas that emerge from the Café discussion will be used as the basis for a more extensive grant proposal focusing on unit-level learning from PSEs--an important and unexplored area in PS research that we would like to pursue with these decision makers. By engaging researchers and this important group of knowledge users (patient care managers and patient safety officers) in this mutual learning, research planning opportunity this workshop clearly falls within the parameters of an Integrated KT event.