Browsing College of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences by Author "O'Connor, Paul"

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    • The 100 most cited articles on healthcare simulation: a bibliometric review 

      Walsh, Chloe; Lydon, Sinéad; Byrne, Dara; Madden, Caoimhe; Fox, Susan; O'Connor, Paul (Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, 2018-06)
      This article provides an overview and synthesis of the 100 most cited healthcare simulation publications to provide insight into the articles that have shaped current knowledge and practice. Searches of the Scopus and Web ...

    • An analysis of general practitioners’ perspectives on patient safety incidents using critical incident technique interviews 

      Curran, Ciara; Lydon, Sinéad; Kelly, Maureen E.; Murphy, Andrew W.; O'Connor, Paul (Oxford University Press (OUP), 2019-03-30)
      Background General practitioners report difficulty in knowing how to improve patient safety. Objectives To analyse general practitioners’ perspectives of contributing factors to patient safety incidents by collecting ...

    • The application of human reliability analysis to three critical care procedures 

      Reddy, Kiran; Byrne, Dara; Breen, Dorothy; Lydon, Sinéad; O'Connor, Paul (Elsevier, 2020-07-10)
      Background: Procedures carried out in the intensive care unit are prone to human error. Standardisation has been suggested as an approach for reducing errors. This study used human reliability analysis methodologies to ...

    • ASPiH Conference 2019 keynote paper. Quality improvement through simulation: a missed opportunity? 

      O'Connor, Paul (BMJ Publishing Group, 2020-03-04)
      As the use of simulation has become more established in the delivery of healthcare education and training, there has been a corresponding increase in healthcare simulation research. Simulation-based research can be divided ...

    • Barriers and facilitators related to the implementation of a physiological track and trigger system: A systematic review of the qualitative evidence 

      Connolly, Fergal; Byrne, Dara; Lydon, Sinéad; Walsh, Chloe; O'Connor, Paul (Oxford University Press (OUP), 2017-11-21)
      Purpose To identify the barriers to, and facilitators of, the implementation of physiological track and trigger systems (PTTSs), perceived by healthcare workers, through a systematic review of the extant qualitative ...

    • A comparison of the teamwork attitudes and knowledge of Irish surgeons and U.S Naval aviators. 

      O'Connor, Paul; Ryan, Stephen; Keogh, Ivan (Elsevier, 2012-10)
      Poor teamwork skills are contributors to poor performance and mishaps in high risk work settings, including the operating theatre. A questionnaire was used to assess the attitudes towards, and knowledge of, Irish surgeons ...

    • A compendium of the steps required to complete 13 essential procedural skills 

      Reid-McDermott, B.; O'Connor, Paul; Carey, C.; Cooney R.; Egan, C.; Lydon, S.; Madden, C.; McLoughlin, M.; Mongan, O.; Parackal Augusthinose, P.; Reid, A.; Smith, M.; Byrne, D. (University of Galway, 2022-09)
      Entrustable Professional Activities (EPAs) are units of professional practice that capture essential competencies in which trainees must become proficient before undertaking them independently. EPAs provide supervisors ...

    • The development of entrustable professional activities for the Irish intern year 

      Byrne, Dara; Lydon, Sinéad; Madden, Caoimhe; O’Dowd, Emily; Boland, Josephine; O'Connor, Paul (NUI Galway, 2018-09)
      There have been significant reforms in intern training in Ireland over the last decade to bring about improvements for the benefit of trainees, health services and ultimately the public. Activities undertaken by the Medical ...

    • The effect of operator position on the quality of chest compressions delivered in a simulated ambulance 

      Mullin, Scott; Lydon, Sinéad; O'Connor, Paul (Cambridge University Press, 2019-12-09)
      Background: Ambulances are where patient care is often initiated or maintained, but this setting poses safety risks for paramedics. Paramedics have found that in order to optimize patient care, they must compromise their ...

    • Excuse me: teaching junior doctors to speak up. 

      O'Connor, Paul; Byrne, Dara; O'Dea, Angela (SAGE Journals, 2013)
      A consistent finding in healthcare is that juniors are unwilling to 'speak up' to seniors. Training designed to encourage junior doctors to speak up was designed, delivered, and evaluated. The training was constructed ...

    • Hand hygiene compliance in the intensive care unit: A systematic review 

      Lambe, Kathryn Ann; Lydon, Sinéad; Madden, Caoimhe; Vellinga, Akke; Hehir, Aoife; Walsh, Mary; O'Connor, Paul (Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, 2019-09)
      Abstract Objectives: To synthesize the literature describing compliance with World Health Organization hand hygiene guidelines in ICUs, to evaluate the quality of extant research, and to examine differences in compliance ...

    • Identifying and addressing the limitations of safety climate surveys. 

      O'Connor, Paul (Elsevier, 2011-06)
      This paper reports the descriptive analysis of a large sample of safety climate survey data (n = 110,014) collected over 10 years from U.S. Naval aircrew using the Command Safety Assessment Survey (CSAS).

    • Impact of working 48 hours per week on opportunities for training and patient contact: the experience of Irish interns 

      O'Connor, Paul; Ahern, Sean; Moloney, Brian; Lydon, Sinéad; Byrne, Dara (Oxford University Press, 2015-09-29)
      Objective. The European Working Time Regulations (EWTR) have been criticised for its purported negative impact on the training of junior doctors. The aim of this study was to examine the amount of time interns spent ...

    • Initial psychometric evaluation of a psychological resilience measure for physicians 

      O'Connor, Paul; Lydon, Sinéad; Byrne, Dara (Taylor and Francis, 2019-10-20)
      Measures of Psychological Resilience (PR) for use with physician populations are lacking. The objective of this study is to develop and assess the validity and internal consistency of a survey designed to measure the ...

    • Interns and their smartphones: use for clinical practice 

      O'Connor, Paul; Byrne, Darra; Butt, M.; Lydon, S.; Stewart, Brian; Kerin, M. J. (Medscape, 2014)
      Purpose of the study Smartphone use among healthcare professionals has become widespread and will continue to grow in the coming years.Study design In October 2012, a survey was distributed to 230 interns at two of the ...

    • Interventions to improve hand hygiene compliance in the ICU: A systematic review 

      Lydon, Sinéad; Power, Michael; McSharry, Jennifer; Byrne, Molly; Madden, Caoimhe; Squires, Janet Elaine; O'Connor, Paul (Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, 2017-11)
      Objectives: To synthesize the literature describing interventions to improve hand hygiene in ICUs, to evaluate the quality of the extant research, and to outline the type, and efficacy, of interventions described. Data ...

    • An introduction to human factors for healthcare workers 

      O'Connor, Paul; O'Dea, Angela (Health Services Executive, 2021-11-20)
      This document: (1) provides a comprehensive overview of human factors; (2) supports healthcare workers to identify the human factors issues in their workplace; (3) supports the identification of the human factors contributors ...

    • Irish policy-makers' perceptions of barriers and facilitators to hand hygiene compliance 

      Madden, Caoimhe; Lydon, Sinéad; Lambe, Kathryn; O'Connor, Paul (Irish Medical Organisation, 2019-04)
      Introduction Despite its’ role in infection prevention, hand hygiene (HH) compliance rates in healthcare settings remain sub-optimal. Little research has examined policy-makers’ perceptions of contributory barriers and ...

    • Learning from complaints about hospital care 

      O'Dowd, Emily; Lydon, Sinéad; Lambe, Kathryn; Vellinga, Akke; Rudland, Chris; Ahern, Elaine; Hilton, Aoife; Ward, Marie E.; Kane, Maria; Reader, Tom; Gillespie, Alex; Vaughan, David; Slattery, Dubhfeasa; O'Connor, Paul (National University of Ireland Galway, 2022)
      Complaints are often seen as a negative experience in healthcare, with patients or family members writing about poor experiences of care, or things that went wrong. These things that go wrong may be small issues or ...

    • Medical speciality choices: Does personality matter? 

      O'Connor, Paul (Irish Medical Journal, 2015-08-07)
      There has been increasing interest in the personalities of doctors. This study examined whether personality differed based upon gender, level of training or medical speciality among 200 physicians and 134 medical students. ...