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Full NameDr Paul O'Connor

General Practice/Irish Centre for Applied Patient Safety and Simulation

National University of Ireland Galway

Webpage:nuigalway.ie

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Research Fields

epidemiology/population health research
clinical trials
Other

Other Research Fields:

Patient safety; quality of care; human factors

Postgrad Medical Specialties

Medicine
Surgery
Psychiatry
Anaesthetics
Emergency Medicine
General Practice
Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Occupational Medicine
Ophthalmology
Paediatrics
Public Health
Radiology

Medical Subspecialties

Adolescent medicine
Cardiology
Cardiac Surgery
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Community Medicine
Endocrinology
Gastroenterology
Geriatric Medicine
Haematology
Health Informatics
Hospice and palliative medicine
Infectious diseases
Immunology
Neonatology
Nephrology
Neurology
Oncology
Orthopaedic surgery
Otorhinolaryngology
Pharmacology
Respiratory Medicine
Rheumatology
Vascular Medicine

My Work

I am the Research Director of the Irish Centre for Applied Patient Safety and Simulation (ICAPSS; www.nuigalway.ie/icapss/). The ICAPSS consists of academics and clinicians from NUI Galway and the Saolta University Healthcare Group along with national and international collaborators. The faculty is drawn from a variety of specialities and healthcare disciplines. The centre's focus is improving patient safety and quality of care through research and its application in practice.

The ICAPSS research can be categorised into four themes:
1. Patient Experience- e.g. access to healthcare for people with disabilities, learning from patient complaints.
2. Doctor Experience – e.g. stress, burnout, psychological resilience.
3. Patient Safety- e.g. learning from errors and adverse events, feasibility study of a safety intervention for primary care, hand hygiene compliance in the ICU.
4. Medical Education/simulation- e.g. improving preparedness of interns for clinical practice, effectiveness of medical education interventions.