Funder: MacMillan. Total grant 149,930, £3,948 to RCN RI

Start date: January 2010. End date: January 2013.

PI: Dan Munday (Warwick Medical School)

Collaborators: Collette Clifford (Birmingham), Sophie Staniszewska (Warwick), Frances Griffiths (Warwick), Mark Hocking (UHCW), Marion Corroon (Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust), Roberta Lovick (User Representative)

Description: This study aims to understand patients experiences of the time leading to admission, the admission process itself and their experiences in the immediate period following admission, by addressing the following areas:

1) To understand the mechanisms, processes and contexts which lead to emergency admission for patients with lung cancer and a comparative group of patients with COPD.

2) To understand the experiences of patients following admission and the benefits or problems associated with hospital stay following emergency admission. The study is underpinned by user involvement in all aspects of the research.

Progress: Study completed. Papers being prepared, with SS leading on the paper focusing on the impact of the PPI Reference Group on the research. Four papers from the study were presented at the 8th World Research Congress of the European Association for Palliative Care in Lleida, Spain from 5-7 June 2014

Publications:

Staniszewska S, Munday D, Bailey C et al (in prep). Patient and public involvement impact in the EUREKA study. (Submission to J Palliative Care).

Karasouli E, Munday, Munday D, Bailey C, Staniszewska S, Hewison A, Griffiths F (2015). A qualitative critical incident study of patients’ experiences leading to emergency hospital admission with advanced respiratory illness. In press, BMJ Open.