Researching Patient Safety and Quality in Healthcare (eBook, ePUB)

A Nordic Perspective
Redaktion: Aase, Karina; Schibevaag, Lene

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Researching Patient Safety and Quality in Health Care: A Nordic Perspective is an anthology based on contributions from leading researchers on quality and safety in healthcare in the Nordic countries together with four internationally renowned patient safety authors. Research on patient safety and quality has been dominated by countries such as the USA, England, Canada, and Australia. This book addresses the current debates in research on patient safety and quality in healthcare from a Nordic perspective.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 259
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317065524
• Artikelnr.: 46757585

Autorenporträt

Professor Karina Aase, University of Stavanger, is an internationally recognized quality and safety expert with a multi-sector background. She is founder of the Quality and Safety in Healthcare Systems research group at the Department of Health. Under Aase's leadership this has become Norway's largest and most influential multidisciplinary research group within the field of healthcare quality and patient safety, boasting more than 20 affiliated researchers, as well as numerous national and international collaborators. Professor Aase has a proven record of gaining and leading large funding grants. Aase has a publication record in merited journals, has edited several books on patient safety and quality in healthcare, and is Associate Editor of BMC Health Services Research. She is member of the National Council for the Patient Safety Programme, and has currently been appointed by the King in Council as member of a government committee proposed to suggest a new organization of state ownership of the specialist healthcare services. Lene Schibevaag has a bachelor in Physiotherapy from the University of Northumbria and has worked for several years as a physiotherapist in both a hospital and a municipality setting in England and Norway. She has a master degree in Societal Safety from the University of Stavanger with a dissertation on transitional care entitled "Multidisciplinary Collaboration: A study of the physiotherapist role in transitional care of the elderly". Schibevaag is currently working as a research coordinator for the "Quality and Safety in Healthcare" research group at the University of Stavanger, Norway.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Status of Nordic Research on Patient Safety and Quality of
Care. Section I Perspectives on Patient Safety and Quality in Healthcare.
Patient-Centred Care in the Nordic Countries. Studying Patient Safety and
Quality from Different Methodological Angles and Perspectives. What Is the
Role of Theory in Research on Patient Safety and Quality Improvement?: Is
There a Nordic Perspective to Theorising? Working in an Institutionally
Layered System on Patient Safety and Quality. Section II Contemporary
Nordic Research - Macro-Political Issues. Centralisation Efforts to Improve
the Quality of Care and Reduce the Costs in Healthcare Systems. National
Clinical Registries: Ten Years of Experience with Improving Quality of Care
in Denmark. Side Effects of Overdoing It: Lessons from a Comprehensive
Hospital Accreditation Programme. Section III Contemporary Nordic Research
- Meso-Political Issues. A Multidisciplinary and Multiactor Approach to
Falls Prevention: The RFPNetwork. Coordination of Discharge Practices for
Elderly Patients in Light of a Norwegian Healthcare Reform. Leading Quality
and Patient Safety Improvement in Norwegian Hospitals. Section IV
Contemporary Nordic Research - Micro-Level Issues. Telecare in Home
Healthcare Services: Implications for Quality and Safety. Coping with
Complexity: Sensemaking in Specialised Home Care. Administration of
Intravenous Medication: Process Variation across Hospital Wards. Appendix.
Index.