Resilience, Mindfulness and Medication Safety with Electronic Systems (MindSElS)

Resilience, Mindfulness and Medication Safety with Electronic Systems (MindSElS)

Resilience, Mindfulness and Medication Safety with Electronic Systems (MindSElS)

The project is a EU Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Individual Fellowship awarded to Valentina Lichtner (Grant agreement 740131).


Project members Macquarie University

 
Dr Valentina Lichtner

Visiting Fellow


Professor Johanna Westbrook
Professor and Director

Project members external

 Professor Bryony Dean Franklin

Project contact

 Dr Valentina Lichtner
Visiting Fellow

Project main description

Medications are one of the most common healthcare interventions and one with great risk of adverse events and serious harm to patients. Medications incidents in hospitals are frequent and a serious concern. Electronic medicine management systems (EMMS) implemented in hospital are known to reduce some safety risks but also introduce new ones. A way to prevent harm to patients from the use of medication is through organising for collective mindfulness (alertness to risks) and through learning from everyday resilience. EMMS introduced in sociotechnical contexts of hospital care may affect collective mindfulness and resilience, in ways that are context (or nation) specific, as countries differ in structures, processes, and legislation.

MindSElS is a collaboration between the Australian Institute of Health Innovation, UCL School of Pharmacy and European centres of excellence in the field of patient safety, to study mindfulness and resilience in medication safety in relation to EMMS. The research includes a mixed-method before and-after study of EMMS implementation in children hospitals in Australia, and a comparative study across four European countries (UK, France, Italy, Norway). The aims are to develop theory and method for EMMS evaluation, investigate whether and how EMMS can support organisational resilience in the use of medicines, and provide (locally/nationally-adjusted) guidance for implementation.

Related links

https://mindsels.com/

https://iris.ucl.ac.uk/iris/browse/profile?upi=VLICH32

https://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/208843/factsheet/en

Related projects

Electronic medication management systems and their impact on pharmacists work

Project status

Current

Centres related to this project

Centre for Health Systems and Safety Research

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