The MARS care transitions Study
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Making cAre home Residents Safer when they have to go into hospital for treatment (The MARS care transitions Study).
IRAS ID
280118
Contact name
Maria Panagioti
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
The University of Manchester
Duration of Study in the UK
1 years, 8 months, 31 days
Research summary
Coordinating transfers to and from hospitals for people living at care homes has always been a challenge but the Covid-19 pandemic has exacerbated existing issues around transitional safety for people living in care homes.
This study will explore patient safety issues when residents of nursing or residential care homes have to go into hospital for treatment. The study is funded by the NIHR Greater Manchester Patient Safety Translational Research Centre and has two main phases.
In Phase one, audio interviews will be conducted with residents of nursing or elderly residential care homes, and/or members of their families, who have previously experienced episodes of hospital care. Audio interviews will also be conducted with care home and hospital staff in Greater Manchester to seek their experiences and opinions of the process when residents need to go in and out of hospital. The main aim of the interviews is to discern the points on the care pathway where patient safety appears most at risk before and after the Covid-19 pandemic.In Phase two, a questionnaire measure of patient safety developed for use in primary care research (the PC PMOS) will be adapted and validated for use in care home patients in Greater Manchester. This study will use interviews and so called Delphi Methods to find out which elements of care and patient safety are most important along the patient journey to and from hospital.
Participants in both phases will be recruited by contacting care homes in Greater Manchester, the Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust and social media adverts. In all study activities, participants can choose between face-to-face or remote (telephone, skype) methods of data collection.
The findings of this study will help us to refine and evaluate an NHS intervention for safer transfers of care home residents to/from hospitals.
REC name
London - Camberwell St Giles Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
20/PR/0098
Date of REC Opinion
21 Aug 2020
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion