Professor Peter Gardner,Professor of Healthcare Quality & Safety
Information about Professor Peter Gardner at the University of Bradford.
- School of Pharmacy & Medical Sciences
(Faculty of Life Sciences) - Email:
- p.h.gardner@bradford.ac.uk
- Telephone:
- +44 1274 234358
Biography
I am a psychologist by backgroundwith particular interests in human factors and human interaction withorganisational systems and technology. I have a long history of working onapplied issues particularly with a health focus and more specifically in areasrelated to patient safety.Brief CV
I was awarded my first degree, inPsychology, from the University of Sheffield in 1984, and I went on to gain aMSc in Computer Studies from Sheffield City Polytechnic, and a PhD inCognitive Science from the University of Sheffield. Following this, I wasprivileged to work with Donald Broadbent and Dianne Berry at the Department ofExperimental Psychology, University of Oxford before taking up a post to work withToby Wall, Chris Clegg and Nik Chmiel at the MRC Social and Applied PsychologyUnit in Sheffield (now the Institute of Work Psychology).
In 1995 I joined theUniversity of Leeds as a lecturer, and became a Senior Lecturer in 2003. FromAugust 2014 until January 2020, I was Head of the School of Psychology at theUniversity of Leeds.
Current appointment
I joined the University of Bradford in February 2020. My role is to workcollaboratively with colleagues in this University and in the Wolfson Centrefor Applied Health Research (CAHR), in the area of Healthcare Quality andSafety. The Wolfson CAHR is a unique collaboration between the Universities ofLeeds and Bradford and the Bradford Institute of Health Research.
Research
Key themes of myresearch include:- Human and system factors in health settings;
- Health technology;
- Patient safety;
- E-health.
Previous Research
Past projects have included:
- A Department ofHealth funded Patient Safety Research project to evaluate the implementation ofa new design for a spinal connector;
- A portfolio ofstudies in collaboration with Cancer Help (the patient information website ofCancer Research UK) investigating the effects of different formats forrepresenting side effect risk information;
- Involvement in aNIHR HS&DR funded project looking at the impact that robotic surgery has oncommunication, collaboration and decision-making in the operating theatre.
- The impact of acancer diagnosis on teenagers’ engagement with education;
- Individual andorganisational factors in patient safety;
- Spillover effectsin pro-environmental behaviours
- Smartphone use in clinical settings;
- Evaluation ofExperience Based Co-Design methods in a Cardiology setting;
- Factors influencingthe use of Electronic Patient Health Records.
Teaching
Details on teaching interests, highlights and modules are available for Professor Peter Gardner as follows:
Teaching modules
| Title | Subject | Module code | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Quality and Service Improvement Project for Physician Associates |
Publications
There are 66 publications involving or that are attributed to Professor Peter Gardner.
Peer Reviewed Journal
| Title | Year | Publication name | Journal | Volume | Pages | Authors | Editors | ISSN | Publisher | DOI | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gaps, traps, bridges and props: a mixed-methods study of resilience in the medicines management system for patients with heart failure at hospital discharge | 2019 | BMJ Open | 9 | Fylan B;Marques I;Ismail H;Breen L;Gardner P;Armitage G;Blenkinsopp A | 2044-6055 | 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-023440 | |||||
| Networked information technologies and patient safety: a protocol for a realist synthesis. | 2019 | Systematic Reviews | 8 | Keen J;Greenhalgh J;Randell R;Gardner P;Waring J;Longo R;Fistein J;Abdulwahid M;King N;Wright J; | 2046-4053 | 10.1186/s13643-019-1223-1 | |||||
| Meta-Analysis of the Reasoned Action Approach (RAA) to Understanding Health Behaviors | 2016 | Annals of Behavioral Medicine | not known | McEachan, R., Taylor, N., Harrison, R., Lawton, R., Gardner, P. and Conner, M. | 10.1007/s12160-016-9798-4 | ||||||
| Basis of Intentions as a Moderator of the Intention Health Behavior Relationship | 2016 | Health Psychology | 35 | Conner, M., McEachan, R., Lawton, R. and Gardner,P. | 10.1037/hea0000261 | ||||||
| Does changing social influence engender changes in alcohol intake? A meta-analysis. | 2016 | Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology | 84 | Prestwich, A., Kellar, I., Conner, M., Lawton, R., Gardner, P. and Turgut, L. | 10.1037/ccp0000112 | ||||||
| A Web-Based and Mobile Health Social Support Intervention to Promote Adherence to Inhaled Asthma Medications Randomized Controlled Trial | 2016 | Journal of Medical Internet Research | 18 | Koufopoulos, J.T., Conner, M.T., Gardner, P.H. and Kellar, I. | 10.2196/jmir.4963 | ||||||
| Factors Affecting Patients Use of Electronic Personal Health Records in England Cross-Sectional Study | 2019 | Journal of Medical Internet Research | 21 | Abd-Alrazaq, A., Bewick, B.M., Farragher, T. and Gardner, P. | 10.2196/12373 | ||||||
| Applying the reasoned action approach to understanding health protection and health risk behaviors | 2017 | Social Science and Medicine | 195 | Conner, M., McEachan, R., Lawton, R. and Gardner, P. | 10.1016/j.socscimed.2017.10.022 | ||||||
| Factors supporting and constraining the implementation of robot-assisted surgery: a realist interview study. | 2019 | BMJ Open | 9 | Randell R;Honey S;Alvarado N;Greenhalgh J;Hindmarsh J;Pearman A;Jayne D;Gardner P;Gill A;Kotze A;Dowding D; | 2044-6055 | 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-028635 | |||||
| A realist process evaluation of robot-assisted surgery: integration into routine practice and impacts on communication, collaboration and decision-making | 2017 | Health Services and Delivery Research | 5 | Randell, R; Honey, S; Hindmarsh, J; Alvarado, N; Greenhalgh, J; Pearman, A; Long, A; Cope, A; Gill, A; Gardner, P; Kotze, A; Wilkinson, D; Jayne, D; Croft, J; Dowding, D | 10.3310/hsdr05200 | ||||||
| What effect does a cancer diagnosis have on the educational engagement and school life of teenagers? A systematic review. | 2012 | Psycho-Oncology | 21 | Pini S;Hugh-Jones S;Gardner PH; | 1099-1611 | 10.1002/pon.2082 | |||||
| Evaluating a combined (frequency and percentage) risk expression to communicate information on medicine side effects to patients. | 2013 | International Journal of Pharmacy Practice | 21 | Knapp P;Gardner P;McMillan B;Raynor DK;Woolf E; | 2042-7174 | 10.1111/j.2042-7174.2012.00254.x | |||||
| The effect of numeracy on the comprehension of information about medicines in users of a patient information website. | 2011 | Patient Education and Counseling | 83 | Gardner PH;McMillan B;Raynor DK;Woolf E;Knapp P; | 1873-5134 | 10.1016/j.pec.2011.05.006 | |||||
| Combining concurrent and sequential methods to examine the usability and readability of websites with information about medicines | 2011 | Journal of Mixed Methods Research | 5 | 25 - 51 | Nicolson D.;Knapp P.;Gardner P.;Raynor D. | 1558-6898 | 10.1177/1558689810385694 | ||||
| An engineered solution to the maladministration of spinal injections. | 2009 | Quality and Safety in Health Care | 18 | Lawton R;Gardner P;Green B;Davey C;Chamberlain P;Phillips P;Hughes G; | 1475-3901 | 10.1136/qshc.2007.025767 | |||||
| Communicating the risk of side effects to patients: an evaluation of UK regulatory recommendations. | 2009 | Drug Safety | 32 | Knapp P;Raynor DK;Woolf E;Gardner PH;Carrigan N;McMillan B; | 1179-1942 | 10.2165/11316570-000000000-00000 | |||||
| Perceived risk of tamoxifen side effects: a study of the use of absolute frequencies or frequency bands, with or without verbal descriptors. | 2010 | Patient Education and Counseling | 79 | Knapp P;Gardner PH;Raynor DK;Woolf E;McMillan B; | 1873-5134 | 10.1016/j.pec.2009.10.002 | |||||
| Medical error in the hospice setting: exploring the perspectives of management staff. | 2010 | International Journal of Palliative Nursing | 16 | Sirriyeh R;Armitage G;Lawton R;Gardner P; | 1357-6321 | 10.12968/ijpn.2010.16.8.377 | |||||
| Perceived risk of medicine side effects in users of a patient information website: a study of the use of verbal descriptors, percentages and natural frequencies. | 2009 | British Journal of Health Psychology | 14 | Knapp P;Gardner PH;Carrigan N;Raynor DK;Woolf E; | 1359-107X | 10.1348/135910708X375344 | |||||
| An augmented reality simulator for ultrasound guided needle placement training. | 2007 | Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing | 45 | Magee D;Zhu Y;Ratnalingam R;Gardner P;Kessel D; | 0140-0118 | 10.1007/s11517-007-0231-9 | |||||
| Using vignettes to explore judgements of patients about safety and quality of care: the role of outcome and relationship with the care provider. | 2011 | Health Expectations | 14 | Lawton R;Gardner P;Plachcinski R; | 1369-7625 | 10.1111/j.1369-7625.2010.00622.x | |||||
| The impact of structuring information in a patient decision aid | 2004 | Psychology and Health | 19 | 457 - 477 | Carrigan N.;Gardner P.;Conner M.;Maule J. | 0887-0446 | 10.1080/08870440310001652641 | ||||
| Familiarity breeds content: The impact of exposure to change on employee openness and well-being | 2002 | Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology | 75 | 217 - 231 | Axtell C.;Wall T.;Stride C.;Pepper K.;Clegg C.;Gardner P.;Bolden R. | 0963-1798 | 10.1348/09631790260098596 | ||||
| Designing and evaluating new ways of working: the application of some sociotechnical tools | 2001 | Human Factors and Ergonomics In Manufacturing | 11 | 1 - 18 | Axtell C.;Pepper K.;Clegg C.;Wall T.;Gardner P. | 1090-8471 | 10.1002/1520-6564(200124)11:1<1::AID-HFM1>3.0.CO;2-6 | ||||
| Implicit knowledge and fault diagnosis in the control of advanced manufacturing technology? | 1996 | Behaviour and Information Technology | 15 | 205 - 212 | Gardner P.;Chmiel N.;Wall T. | 0144-929X | 10.1080/014492996120139 | ||||
| An overview of the features of chatbots in mental health: A scoping review. | 2019 | International Journal of Medical Informatics | 132 | Abd-Alrazaq AA;Alajlani M;Alalwan AA;Bewick BM;Gardner P;Househ M; | 1872-8243 | 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2019.103978 | |||||
| How and Why School Is Important to Teenagers with Cancer: Outcomes from a Photo-Elicitation Study. | 2019 | Journal Of Adolescent And Young Adult Oncology | 8 | Pini S;Gardner P;Hugh-Jones S; | 2156-535X | 10.1089/jayao.2018.0068 | |||||
| Factors that affect the use of electronic personal health records among patients: A systematic review. | 2019 | International Journal of Medical Informatics | 126 | Abd-Alrazaq AA;Bewick BM;Farragher T;Gardner P; | 1872-8243 | 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2019.03.014 | |||||
| The effect of different forms of advice on the control of a simulated complex system | 1995 | Applied Cognitive Psychology | 9 | S55 - S79 | Gardner P.;Berry D. | 0888-4080 | 10.1002/acp.2350090706 | ||||
| The intelligent authoring of computer assisted learning software | 1988 | Expert Systems | 5 | 302 - 314 | Nicolson R.;Scott P.;Gardner P. | 0266-4720 | 10.1111/j.1468-0394.1988.tb00350.x | ||||
| 'What are you crying for? I don't even know you' - The experiences of teenagers communicating with their peers when returning to school. | 2019 | European Journal of Oncology Nursing | 39 | Pini S;Hugh-Jones S;Shearsmith L;Gardner P; | 1532-2122 | 10.1016/j.ejon.2018.12.010 | |||||
| The QWERTY keyboard hampers schoolchildren | 1985 | British Journal of Psychology | 76 | 525 - 531 | Nicolson R.;Gardner P. | 0007-1269 | 10.1111/j.2044-8295.1985.tb01973.x | ||||
| How do people find websites with information about medicines? | 2008 | International Journal of Pharmacy Practice | 16 | Knapp P.;Nicolson D.;Gardner P.;Raynor D. | 0961-7671 | ||||||
| Is the internet useful for finding and understanding information about medicines? | 2008 | International Journal of Pharmacy Practice | 16 | Nicolson D.;Knapp P.;Gardner P.;Raynor D. | 0961-7671 | ||||||
| A Daily Diary Approach to the Examination of Chronic Stress, Daily Hassles and Safety Perceptions in Hospital Nursing. | 2017 | International Journal of Behavioral Medicine | 24 | Louch G;O'Hara J;Gardner P;O'Connor DB; | 1532-7558 | 10.1007/s12529-017-9655-2 | |||||
| How teenagers continue school after a diagnosis of cancer: Experiences of young people and recommendations for practice | 2016 | Future Oncology | 12 | 2785 - 2800 | Pini S.;Gardner P.;Hugh-Jones S. | 1479-6694 | 10.2217/fon-2016-0074 | ||||
| The daily relationships between staffing, safety perceptions and personality in hospital nursing: A longitudinal on-line diary study. | 2016 | International Journal of Nursing Studies | 59 | Louch G;O'Hara J;Gardner P;O'Connor DB; | 1873-491X | 10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2016.02.010 | |||||
| Emotion and Coping in the Aftermath of Medical Error: A Cross-Country Exploration | 2015 | Journal of Patient Safety | 11 | Harrison R.;Lawton R.;Perlo J.;Gardner P.;Armitage G.;Shapiro J. | 10.1097/PTS.0b013e3182979b6f | ||||||
| Embedding robotic surgery into routine practice and impacts on communication and decision making: a review of the experience of surgical teams | 2016 | Cognition, Technology and Work | 18 | 423 - 437 | Randell R.;Honey S.;Alvarado N.;Pearman A.;Greenhalgh J.;Long A.;Gardner P.;Gill A.;Jayne D.;Dowding D. | 1435-5558 | 10.1007/s10111-016-0368-0 | ||||
| Combined verbal and numerical expressions increase perceived risk of medicine side-effects: a randomized controlled trial of EMA recommendations. | 2016 | Health Expectations | 19 | Knapp P;Gardner PH;Woolf E; | 1369-7625 | 10.1111/hex.12344 | |||||
| Electronic whiteboards: review of the literature. | 2015 | Studies in Health Technology and Informatics | 210 | Randell R;Greenhalgh J;Wyatt J;Gardner P;Pearman A;Honey S;Dowding D; | 1879-8365 | 10.3233/978-1-61499-512-8-389 | |||||
| Looking and thinking when driving: The impact of gaze and cognitive load on steering | 2015 | Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour | 34 | 108 - 121 | Kountouriotis G.;Wilkie R.;Gardner P.;Merat N. | 1369-8478 | 10.1016/j.trf.2015.07.012 | ||||
| Dashboards for improving patient care: review of the literature. | 2015 | International Journal of Medical Informatics | 84 | Dowding D;Randell R;Gardner P;Fitzpatrick G;Dykes P;Favela J;Hamer S;Whitewood-Moores Z;Hardiker N;Borycki E;Currie L; | 1872-8243 | 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2014.10.001 | |||||
| Integration of robotic surgery into routine practice and impacts on communication, collaboration, and decision making: A realist process evaluation protocol | 2014 | Implementation Science : Is | 9 | Randell R.;Greenhalgh J.;Hindmarsh J.;Dowding D.;Jayne D.;Pearman A.;Gardner P.;Croft J.;Kotze A. | 1748-5908 | 10.1186/1748-5908-9-52 | |||||
| Assessing the quality and usability of smartphone apps for pain self-management. | 2014 | Pain medicine (Malden, Mass.) | 15 | Reynoldson C;Stones C;Allsop M;Gardner P;Bennett MI;Closs SJ;Jones R;Knapp P; | 1526-4637 | 10.1111/pme.12327 | |||||
| International priorities for research in nursing informatics for patient care. | 2013 | Studies in Health Technology and Informatics | 192 | Dowding DW;Currie LM;Borycki E;Clamp S;Favela J;Fitzpatrick G;Gardner P;Hamer S;Hardiker N;Johnson O;Lawton R;O'Brien A;Randell R;Westbrook J;Whitewood-Moores Z;Dykes PC; | 1879-8365 | ||||||
| The impact of a cancer diagnosis on the education engagement of teenagers - patient and staff perspective. | 2013 | European Journal of Oncology Nursing | 17 | Pini S;Gardner P;Hugh-Jones S; | 1532-2122 | 10.1016/j.ejon.2012.08.005 | |||||
| The design of consumer packaging: Effects of manipulations of shape, orientation, and alignment of graphical forms on consumers' assessments | 2013 | Food Quality and Preference | 27 | 8 - 17 | Westerman S.;Sutherland E.;Gardner P.;Baig N.;Critchley C.;Hickey C.;Mehigan S.;Solway A.;Zervos Z. | 0950-3293 | 10.1016/j.foodqual.2012.05.007 | ||||
| Optic flow asymmetries bias high-speed steering along roads. | 2013 | Journal of Vision | 13 | Kountouriotis GK;Shire KA;Mole CD;Gardner PH;Merat N;Wilkie RM; | 1534-7362 | 10.1167/13.10.23 | |||||
| The role of gaze and road edge information during high-speed locomotion. | 2012 | Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance | 38 | Kountouriotis GK;Floyd RC;Gardner PH;Merat N;Wilkie RM; | 1939-1277 | 10.1037/a0026123 | |||||
| Structuring Users' Self-Report Responses to Website Designs | 2012 | International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction | 28 | 456 - 471 | Westerman S.;Shaerf S.;Tuck G.;Gardner P. | 1044-7318 | 10.1080/10447318.2011.622969 | ||||
| Color Research and Application | 2012 | Color Research and Application | 37 | 292 - 301 | Westerman S.;Sutherland E.;Gardner P.;Metcalfe R.;Nash J.;Palframan S.;Woodburn N. | 0361-2317 | 10.1002/col.20690 | ||||
| Product design: Preference for rounded versus angular design elements | 2012 | Psychology and Marketing | 29 | 595 - 605 | Westerman S.;Gardner P.;Sutherland E.;White T.;Jordan K.;Watts D.;Wells S. | 0742-6046 | 10.1002/mar.20546 | ||||
| Safety subcultures in health-care organizations and managing medical error. | 2012 | Health Services Management Research | 25 | Sirriyeh R;Lawton R;Armitage G;Gardner P;Ferguson S; | 1758-1044 | 10.1258/hsmr.2011.011018 | |||||
| Identifying the latent failures underpinning medication administration errors: an exploratory study. | 2012 | Health Services Research | 47 | Lawton R;Carruthers S;Gardner P;Wright J;McEachan RR; | 1475-6773 | 10.1111/j.1475-6773.2012.01390.x | |||||
| Effects of inter-organisational information technology networks on patient safety: a realist synthesis | 2020 | BMJ Open | 10 | e036608 | Keen, J; Abdulwahid, M; King, N; Wright, J; Randell, R; Gardner, P; Waring, J; Longo, R; Nikolova, S; Sloan, C; Greenhalgh, J | 10.1136/bmjopen-2019-036608 | |||||
| Improving the Safety and Continuity Of Medicines management at Transitions of care (ISCOMAT): protocol for a process evaluation of a cluster randomised control trial | 2020 | BMJ Open | 10 | Powell C, Breen L, Fylan B, Ismail H, Alderson SL, Gale CP, Gardner, P Farrin, AJ, Alldred DP. | |||||||
| Associations Between Anticholinergic Medication Exposure and Adverse Health Outcomes in Older People with Frailty: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. | 2021 | Drugs - Real World Outcomes | Mehdizadeh D;Hale M;Todd O;Zaman H;Marques I;Petty D;Alldred DP;Johnson O;Faisal M;Gardner P;Clegg A; | 2199-1154 | 10.1007/s40801-021-00256-5 | ||||||
| Patients’ Perspectives About Factors Affecting Their Use of Electronic Personal Health Records in England: Qualitative Analysis | 2021 | Journal of Medical Internet Research | 23 | Abd-Alrazaq, A.A., Safi, Z, Bewick, B.M., Househ, M. and Gardner, P.H. | 10.2196/17500 | ||||||
| The effects of interoperable information technology networks on patient safety: a realist synthesis | 2020 | Health Services and Delivery Research | 8 | Keen J, Abdulwahid M, King N, Wright J, Randell R, Gardner P, Waring J, Longo R, Nikolova S, Sloan C & Greenhalgh J. | 10.3310/hsdr08400 | ||||||
| Quality assessment with diverse studies (QuADS): an appraisal tool for methodological and reporting quality in systematic reviews of mixed- or multi-method studies. | 2021 | BMC Health Services Research | 21 | Harrison R;Jones B;Gardner P;Lawton R; | 1472-6963 | 10.1186/s12913-021-06122-y | |||||
| A non-randomised feasibility study of an intervention to optimise medicines at transitions of care for patients with heart failure. | 2021 | Pilot And Feasibility Studies | 7 | Fylan B; Ismail H; Hartley S; Gale CP; Farrin AJ; Gardner P; Silcock J; Alldred DP; | 2055-5784 | 10.1186/s40814-021-00819-x | |||||
| What supports and constrains the implementation of multifactorial falls risk assessment and tailored multifactorial falls prevention interventions in acute hospitals? Protocol for a realist review. | 2021 | BMJ Open | 11 | Randell R;Wright JM;Alvarado N;Healey F;Dowding D;Smith H;Hardiker N;Gardner P;Ward S;Todd C;Zaman H;McVey L;Davey CJ;Woodcock D; | 2044-6055 | 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-049765 | |||||
| Using routine healthcare data to evaluate the impact of the Medicines at Transitions Intervention (MaTI) on clinical outcomes of patients hospitalised with heart failure: protocol for the Improving the Safety and Continuity Of Medicines management at Transitions of care (ISCOMAT) cluster randomised controlled trial with embedded process evaluation, health economics evaluation and internal pilot | 2022 | BMJ Open | 12 | Moreau LA, Holloway I, Fylan B, Hartley S, Cundill B, Fergusson A, Alderson S, Alldred DP, Bojke C, Breen L, Ismail H, Gardner P, Mason E, Powell C, Silcock J, Taylor A, Farrin A, Gale C. On behalf of the ISCOMAT Programme Management Team. | 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-054274 | ||||||
| The extent of anticholinergic burden across an older Welsh population living with frailty: Cross-sectional analysis of general practice records. | 2023 | Age and Ageing | 52 | Cheong, V.L, Mehdizadeh, D. , Todd, O.M, Gardner, P., Zaman, H., Clegg, A., Alldred, D.P., Faisal, M. | Oxford University Press | https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afad136 | |||||
| Exploring variation in implementation of multifactorial falls risk assessment and tailored interventions: A realist review | 2023 | BMC Geriatrics | Alvarado, N., McVey, L., Wright, J., Healey, F., Dowding, D., Cheong, V-L., Gardner, P., Hardiker, N., Lynch, A., Zaman, H., Smith, H., & Randell, R. |