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Full NameDr Paul O'Connor
General Practice/Irish Centre for Applied Patient Safety and Simulation
University of Galway
Webpage:nuigalway.ie
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- epidemiology/population health research
- clinical trials
- Other
Patient safety; quality of care; human factors
- Medicine
- Surgery
- Psychiatry
- Anaesthetics
- Emergency Medicine
- General Practice
- Obstetrics and Gynaecology
- Occupational Medicine
- Ophthalmology
- Paediatrics
- Public Health
- Radiology
- 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
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.