FRACTURE Study
Patient & Public Involvement & Engagement (PPIE)
The voices and opinions of our patients and the public are important to us. See how they have shaped this study below.
Study Design
The Great Ormond Street Hospital Young Person’s Advisory Group (YPAG) and Parents and Carer’s Advisory Group (PCAG) were integral in helping design this study. To find out more detail, check out the impact case report by clicking on the link below, pages 10-13
The FRACTURE Study was also featured in an online podcast in 2021 by one of our GOSH YPAG members available from the following places. Click on the icons to be taken to the podcast.
5th May 2022 – We are delighted to be featured in the latest issue of the Great Ormond Street Hospital publication ‘A Pioneer in Research’ on our work with children’s imaging!
Our study has featured on the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children website. Check out the details here:
https://www.gosh.nhs.uk/news/can-we-use-artificial-intelligence-ai-to-better-diagnose-fractures/
Website Design
This website and our study logo were co-designed and chosen by the GOSH YPAG group. In a meeting on the 29 January 2022, a preliminary draft of this website, the drawings and layouts were demonstrated.
Some of the comments from the day for the website design were “It looks cool”, “I like the colour scheme”, “It looks easy to read and see the graphics – good layout, very professional”, “Straightforward and easy to use” and “Well done!”
One comment for improvement included concerns regarding how people who were colour blind may find some of the text and graphics. In order to test this, we will be seeking feedback from members of the public who are colour blind to ensure that they still feel able to navigate the website comfortably.
Logo Design
At the same meeting on 29/1/2022 our GOSH YPAG group broke into small groups to vote on their favourite logo design for the ‘FRACTURE’ research study. The final favourite logo is used througout this website. The two choices and feedback received for each of them are described below.
The vast majority of the 30 YPAG members thought that logo 2 was the more eye catching, representative and meaningful logo for the FRACTURE study.
Some reasons for this included:
“The arm in logo 1 could be an adult or child’s arm, whereas the bone in logo 2 is a child’s bone’
“An arm in a cast could mean its a study do to with healing, whereas this is a study looking at fracture detection and diagnosis’
Some feedback specific to the preferred logo (option 2) included:
“I think it looks very put together”
“The second one is more understandable as the colour stand out against each other”.
Survey Creation
In the creation of our patient/child and parent survey we sought the help of our steering group committee (see ‘Team’ link) to make sure that the questions we asked were relevant, understandable and useful in helping researchers design future AI tools that are acceptable and appropriate for clinical use.
We have so far had two meetings (held on 9 October 2021 and 11 Feb 2022) to test the questions we will put in our final survey.
We have just recently launched our national survey online! Please do take part if you haven’t had the chance yet. Details are listed on our landing page and also under the ‘Get Involved’ tab.