Perceptions of Risk and Safety in the ICU: A Qualitative Study of Cognitive Processes Relating to Staffing.

Objectives: The aims of this study were to 1) examine individual professionals' perceptions of staffing risks and safe staffing in intensive care and 2) identify and examine the cognitive processes that underlie these perceptions.

Design: Qualitative case study methodology with nurses, doctors, and physiotherapists.

Setting: Three mixed medical and surgical adult ICUs, each on a separate hospital site within a 1,200-bed academic, tertiary London hospital group.

Developing effective feedback on quality of anaesthetic care: what are its most valuable characteristics from a clinical perspective?

Objectives: Research suggests that better feedback from quality and safety indicators leads to enhanced capability of clinicians and departments to improve care and change behaviour. The aim of the current study was to investigate the characteristics of feedback perceived by clinicians to be of most value.

Methods: Data were collected using a survey designed as part of a wider evaluation of a data feedback initiative in anaesthesia.