Decision Making and Organisation of Care
Leads: Richard Thomson & Cath Exley
Decision Making and Organisation of Care (DMOC) is a multidisciplinary research theme which brings together social and behavioural science and clinical expertise to conduct applied health research. DMOC incorporates three research strands:
- Health experiences and interactions
- Professional practice and organisation of care
- Shared decision making
Our work spans a diverse range of clinical specialities and utilises a range of research methods and methodologies, employing rigorous single and multi-method qualitative and quantitative research, as well as strategically employing surveys, interactional analysis and systematic reviews.
Aims:
- To deliver internationally recognised, multidisciplinary applied empirical research that contributes to understanding and improving both decision making and the organisation and delivery of health care
- To conduct empirical research on:
- Professionals’ and patients’ interactions and their negotiations of health care decisions.
- The scope for, and design and implementation of, shared decision making in a range of clinical settings
- Experiences of health and illness, and how these are structured and shaped by health care delivery and practices
- How new knowledge, techniques and technologies can be integrated into clinical practice
- To actively support the career development of all theme members through targeting and applying for doctoral and early and mid-career fellowships
Selected Projects
- A Study of Donor Ex-vivo Lung Perfusion in UK Lung Transplantation (DEVELOP-UK)
Project Leader(s): Professor Andy Fisher, Dr Catherine Exley ( lead qualitative evaluation) - Cognitive behavioural therapy-based intervention to reduce fear of falling in older fallers attending a community falls service: Therapy development and randomised controlled trial
Project Leader(s): Dr Steve Parry (IAH) - Designing Scalable Assistive Technologies and Services for Independent Healthy Living and Sustainable Market Development in the Mixed Digital Economy
Project Leader(s): Professor Feng Li (Newcastle Business School) - Development and Assessment of Services for Hyper-acute Stroke (DASH)
Project Leader(s): Professor Gary Ford (IAH), Professor Richard Thomson, Professor Martin White - How should we educate young people to help them make decisions about biologic therapies?
Project Leader(s): Dr Tim Rapley - Improving Diabetes prescribing, Examining and Advising (IDEA) trial
Project Leader(s): Dr Justin Presseau, Prof Eileen FS Kaner - Improving the Normalisation of Complex Interventions: Developing quantitative Measures for users based on Normalization Process Theory (NoMAD)
Project Leader(s): Dr Tracy Finch - Making Good Decisions In Collaboration With Patients (MAGIC)
Project Leader(s): Professor Richard Thomson - Patient Involvement in Patient Safety: Project 3 - Developing an intervention to help patients improve their own safety
Project Leader(s): Professor Richard Thomson - Tailored implementation for chronic diseases (TICD)
Project Leader(s): Professor Martin Eccles - The Educational Needs of Carers of People with Rheumatoid Arthritis (CARA)
Project Leader(s): Dr Ben Thompson, Dr Tim Rapley
