HECTOR 2 - follow-up study
Research type
Research Study
Full title
HECTOR 2 - Follow-up study
IRAS ID
191955
Contact name
Sarah M Flanagan
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust
Duration of Study in the UK
1 years, 1 months, 27 days
Research summary
Patients aged 65 and older who are admitted to hospital with traumatic injuries often have other health and social problems which regularly make them stay in hospital much longer, leading to higher death rates, complications and increased costs. It is important that they receive the best care possible. HECTOR is a programme that aims to provide the best integrated care package from the point of admission, through the acute phases of their treatment to their recovery and discharge for this group of patients. In order to assess whether the clinicians’ ‘best care package’ satisfies patients', and carers’ requirements at every step of the care process, for example the degree of their involvement in decisions about their care, it is imperative that we hear their voice and let them tell us about their experiences.
We believe that obtaining patients’ and carers’ views about their experiences and feeding these back to clinicians and health and social care staff should improve the overall patient satisfaction of being treated on the HECTOR programme and identify improvements for this patient group across the NHS. This study will then provide important information alongside the quantitative evaluation in the main study to provide a definitive answer to this urgent NHS service question. Furthermore, understanding patient and carer experience should also be generalisable to the management and treatment of all older patients admitted to hospital with trauma in the NHS.REC name
West Midlands - Edgbaston Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
16/WM/0138
Date of REC Opinion
14 Apr 2016
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion