Grant: Health System Impact Fellowships - PostDoc Western Canada 2 year

This program of work proposed for this HSIF award addresses the Canadian Patient Safety Institute strategy: "Demonstrate What Works - Support is needed for successful implementation of measurable, sustainable patient safety improvement, and initiatives need to be evaluated to demonstrate what works." The proposed HSIF work will contribute directly to successful implementation of measurable, sustainable patient safety improvement, and the evaluation of initiatives to demonstrate what works. Objectives - Identify facilitators and barriers that influence implementation of Safety Improvement Projects (SIPs) in each local context - Evaluate the effectiveness of CPSI initiatives in PSC to assemble evidence of what works so that promising results can be shared and replicated by others to positively impact patient safety culture and patient outcomes I will work with the teams conducting the following three SIPs: • Measurement and Monitoring of Safety • Medication Reconciliation at Care Transitions • TeamSTEPPS It will be the goal of the evaluation to understand what inputs and processes have the most significant impact on different dimensions of PSC. Data will be analyzed in a quasi-experiment (pretest- post-test control group design) to evaluate the effectiveness of the interventions on PSC. We will use the revised Canadian Patient Safety Climate Survey (Can-PSCS) to measure the impact on PSC.