About us:

Our research on patient safety is largely oriented towards healthcare services research and aims to strengthen patient safety in health and care services through development and improvement of systems and processes. Our research areas include patient safety culture, teamwork (interprofessional and profession-specific) and team training, medication management, human factors, resilience, user orientation, and professional competence.

Our members have expertise in special nursing, medicine, radiography, social sciences, epidemiology, simulation, health services organization, and epistemology.

Our projects/research include:

• Developing, implementing, and evaluating effectiveness of interventions to increase patient safety and improve quality of healthcare services
  • Mapping and describing processes and systems
• Developing, testing, and using tools and instruments
  • Questionnaires
• Exploring experience-based knowledge among healthcare personnel and patients
  • Interviews and observations
• Making use of simulation to improve the safety and quality of healthcare services
• Quality improvement projects

We plan and execute projects in different settings using various methods:

• Specialist healthcare services
• Municipal healthcare services
• Higher education

The projects we carry out have various methodological approaches, and we have a broad range of methodological competencies and approaches to create and implement new knowledge – aiming to promote patient safety.

Dissemination in various forums:

We wish to participate in public debate and regularly write opinion pieces in regional and national media. Additionally, we present research at both national and international conferences and publish in international scientific journals. We also focus on general dissemination through participation in user forums, and we disseminate through teaching in higher education.

National and local partners:

The research group is partnered with SHARE (Center for Quality and Safety in Health Services at the University of Stavanger) and Innlandet Hospital Trust. We also have collaborative projects with Oslo University Hospital.

Locally, we collaborate closely with other research groups at the Department of Health Sciences in Gjøvik, with local municipalities and the local Development Center for Nursing Homes and Home Care Services.

Project examples:

• Improving radiological services (IROS, 2021-2024): IROS - NTNU, Oversiktsartikkel.
• Team training and medication administration in an ambulance service (TEAM-AMB)
• Arbeidsglede, resiliens capacity (tilpasningsdyktighet) og pasientsikkerhetskultur hos helsepersonell, Oslo universitetssykehus.
• Active independent life in older age - despite cancer