Centre for Safety in Health Care

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Research

Within the Center for Safety in Healthcare, versatile research is conducted together with hospitals and other healthcare institutions. The team focuses on various themes such as optimization of processes, safety culture, professional conduct, safe introduction of new technology and works on developing / improving research methods.

Current projects

Anticancer: Game Theory Empowered by Data Science and Control Theory to Improve Treatment of Metastatic Cancer

January 2023 – December 2027

This research investigates novel game theoretic models and combines these with data science and control theory to improve standard of care in cancer treatment. With these models a physician will be able to anticipate the cancer cells’ response to the treatment and subsequently steer the eco-evolutionary dynamics of the cancer cells towards better patient outcomes.

Speaking up in healthcare

January 2023 – December 2023

To improve the safety and quality of care, it is important that all healthcare professionals can speak up about problems and suggestions. However, this does not always happen. During this project we study which factors contribute to whether healthcare professionals speak up or not and which role the receiving party has.

Redesigning Healthcare Processes

February 2021 - August 2025

This PhD thesis aims to design a method for redesigning structured or standardized work processes to fit the day-to-day work routines and needs of the healthcare professional.

Assessing system safety

February 2022 - February 2026

This PhD research focuses on evaluating safety within 'high-risk' organizations. For these organizations safety is an imperative; and they therefore actively and continuously engage with the topic.

Implementation of new technology in socio-technical surgical context

December 2023 - 2027

The aim of this thesis is to increase our understanding these socio-technical interactions in daily surgical practice, how these interactions change when new technologies are implemented, and to develop new methods that will improve the ability of professionals to monitor the impact of implementing new technology on safety of patients.

Finished projects

What’s Up Doc?

January 2021 - December 2023

Physicians’ reflections on managing their ability to perform throughout their careers, in relation to quality and safety of care delivery

Freedom in a Frame

June 2021 - July 2022

A new way of looking at improving healthcare processes. Examining the process in Work-as-Imagined and Work-as-Done, and discussing this with the shop floor, led to several improvement strategies.
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