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.

• 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.

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.

• 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.

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.

• 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.