Eirini Oikonomou

• MSc Health Psychology
• Research Assistant at University of Oxford

Background: The Partners at Care Transitions Measure (PACT-M) is a reliable and valid instrument for assessing the quality and safety of care during the transition from hospital to home. The aim of this study was to examine the psychometric properties and test the reliability and validity of the Chinese version of the PACT-M. Methods: This was a cr...

Introduction The transition of care from hospital to home is a high-risk time for older adults. The Partners at Care Transitions (PACT) programme aims to improve safety and quality of care transitions. We aimed to test the feasibility of using the Partners at Care Transitions Measure (PACT-M) to evaluate older adults’ experiences of the transition...

https://vimeo.com/481286261/acb804a677 // Introduction The transition of care from hospital to home is a high-risk time for older adults. The Partners at Care Transitions (PACT) programme aims to improve safety and quality of care transitions. We aimed to test the feasibility of using the Partners at Care Transitions Measure (PACT-M) to evaluate ol...

Background: The Partners at Care Transitions Measure (PACT-M) is a patient-reported questionnaire for evaluation of the quality and safety of care transitions from hospital to home, as experienced by older adults. PACT-M has two components; PACT-M 1 to capture the immediate post discharge period and PACT-M 2 to assess the experience of managing ca...

Healthcare relies on a variety of regulatory activities to manage risks to the public and to drive improvement. But the regulation of patient safety in healthcare, and in the NHS in particular, is “bewildering in its complexity and prone to both overlaps of remit and gaps between different agencies.” (Berwick 2013). Regulatory activities touch ever...

Background: The transition of older patients (over 65 years of age) from hospital to their own home is a time when patients are at high risk. No measure currently exists to assess the experience, quality and safety of care transitions relevant to UK population. We aim to describe the development and initial testing of the Partners at Care Transiti...

The poster illustrates the process of developing and validating PACT-M, a measure to assess the quality and safety of care transitions for older people.

Objectives The current research project sought to map out the regulatory landscape for patient safety in the English National Health Service (NHS). Method We used a systematic desk-based search using a variety of sources to identify the total number of organisations with regulatory influence in the NHS; we researched publicly available documents l...

Regulation is one important means of monitoring and improving the safety of healthcare with the aim of ensuring safe, reliable treatment for patients and a safe working environment for healthcare professionals. Critics argue that although regulation may have valuable effects, it is too often ineffective, inflexible and generates ticking box behavio...

To assess the impact of distraction on subsequent eating, 60 females consumed a cereal bar while watching TV, walking or talking, and their subsequent desire to eat and food intake were assessed. No effects were found for desire to eat. But while those higher in restrained eating consumed less overall and fewer calories after watching TV or talking...