You are hereby invited to participate in the 2024 Nordic conference on research in patient safety and quality in healthcare in Oslo 29th - 30th August 2024.
4 keynotes, 40 presentations, 4 workshops 48 posters will provide a cutting edge experience on where healthcare quality and patient safety is heading, why and how.
The conference is organized by the Nordic Research Network for Safety and Quality in Healthcare - NSQH, in collaboration with Akershus University Hospital.
The conference brings together Nordic and international researchers, health care professionals and other practitioners in the field.
When and where
28. August 2024, 17.00–21.00 (preconference - get together)
Participants will learn how independent, national safety investigations can enhance patient safety, improve psychological safety, and foster a just culture in healthcare services. They will also be provided with an example of the role of a national whistleblower and its impact on patient safety for children and adolescents with gender incongruence.
Name and title of presenters:
Stine Marit Moen, MD, PhD, Medical Director, Ukom Synnøve Serigstad, Head of Relations and Learning, Ukom
How will participants be invited to interact in the workshop?
Participants will be given questions for reflection at their tables and will be invited to ask questions and provide feedback.
What can participants expect to learn?
Adverse events and surgical complications occur in about 20-30% of all surgical procedures, significantly impacting patients and healthcare workers. How do we learn from these events, move forward and improve?
Name and title of presenters:
Professor Knut Magne Augestad, University of Oslo Topic: How can failure to rescue after surgical complications be reduced?
Researcher Gøril Birkeli, Akershus University Hospital Topic: How can the green cross method improve and reduce surgical complications?
Postdoc Sina Furnes Øyri, University of Stavanger Topic: The surgeon as the second victim: how do we care for our surgeon colleagues when the complications happen?
PhD Candidate Iris Reijemrink, University of Groningen Topic: Surgeons Fatigue and surgical complications: How do we improve, what are the knowledge gaps?
How will participants be invited to interact in the workshop?
Participants will be invited to interact in the workshop through group discussions related to surgical quality improvement and future research topics.
Aim
To explore the possibility of using methods and tools from Behavioural Insights (BI) to support Quality Improvement (QI) activities specific to issues relating to the human side of change.
What can we expect to learn?
Based on a real-world example of an improvement project aimed at reducing the use of intravenous antibiotics in a Danish hospital, participants will be introduced to tools from BI which enhanced the understanding of the behavioural challenges and the validity of interventions to support change-oriented behaviour.
Presenters
Rie Johansen, Department of Quality & Education, Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg University Hospital.
Simon Tulloch, Psychologist & Senior Advisor, Danish Society for Patient Safety
Aim
To emphasize the importance of medication safety as a critical aspect of patient safety and to establish a Nordic-level network of medication safety professionals.
What can participants expect to learn?
Participants will get to know their Nordic colleagues in the field of medication safety and learn about their work environments, current trends in their organizations and countries, as well as the study and development projects underway.
Name and title of presenter
Lotta Schepel, Chief Medication Safety Officer at Helsinki University Hospital
Marianne Kuusisto, Medication Safety Officer at the Finnish Centre for Client and Patient Safety.
How will participants be invited to interact in the workshop?
Attendees are encouraged to prepare a short presentation (1-3 PowerPoint slides) about themselves, their work, and their projects, which must be submitted by August 27th at 8:00 PM to marianne.kuusisto@ovph.fi.
Preliminary program will be ready in June and the final program in July.
Pre Conference seminar – Get Together August 28th.
As a precaution bring the presentation on a USB stick to the conference.
Contact the Moderator in the room for your presentation 15-20 minutes before the session starts.
At the end of each oral presentation session, 15 minutes will be spent on plenary discussion.
Remember that to be able to present your work you need to be registered at the conference.
Instruction for printed poster and speed poster presentations
Technical instructions for the printed poster.
The posters should be printed in a “portrait” format, Paper A0: height 1189 mm x width 841 mm (or 46.8 x 33.1 in), and in any case no larger than H120 x W90 cm.
Make sure your poster is interesting and visually compelling to attract viewers. You are welcome to add images, tables, and detailed data to better document your work.
The abstract content must be presented, including all authors, and contact information (e.g., e-mail address, WhatsApp user, telephone number) for at least one author.
Posters should be posted at the latest during the coffee break Thursday morning and taken down after noon Friday.
Technical instructions for the speed poster presentation.
Prepare your speed poster presentation on one slide in PowerPoint.
The speed poster presentation should last 1 minute only and highlight the main points of your poster.
As a precaution bring the speed poster presentation on a USB stick to the conference.
The three speed poster sessions are directly after a keynote speech. Prepare to line up together with the other speed poster presenters at the side of the stage, immediately after the preceding keynote speech is finished. Line up in the same order as you are given in the program. Ensure that the name of the person in front of you and in the back are the same as in the program.
If you have technical concerns at the conference, you may contact your moderator 20-30 minutes before the preceding keynote speech begins.
Remember that you must be registered at the conference to be able to present your work.
Deadline has expired.
Keynote speakers
David W. Bates - MD, MSc
Dr. David W. Bates is the Chief of the Division of General Internal Medicine and Primary Care at Brigham and Women's Hospital and is the Medical Director of Clinical and Quality Analysis in Information Systems at Mass General Brigham. He is a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Professor of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard School of Public Health, where he is the Co-Director of the Program in Clinical Effectiveness. He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and edits the Journal of Patient Safety.
Dr. David W. Bates
Siri Wiig - PhD, MSc
Dr. Siri Wiig is Centre Director at SHARE - Centre for Resilience in Healthcare, at the University of Stavanger (UiS), Norway. The SHARE centre is the largest research group in Norway doing research on quality and safety in healthcare. Wiig is full Professor of Quality and Safety in Healthcare Systems at the Faculty of Health Sciences, UiS. Key research interests are resilience in healthcare, patient safety, quality improvement, safety investigations, user involvement, risk regulation, leadership, and learning in socio-technical systems.
Dr. Siri Wiig
Stig Harthug - MD, PhD
Dr. Stig Harthug is professor of medicine at University of Bergen, and was until recently in charge of The Patient Safety Unit at Haukeland University Hospital. He was former Chair of The Reference Group for the Norwegian Patient Safety Campaign. Implementation of safe surgery has been his most important topic in research that comprises more than 80 scientific papers.
Stig Harthug
Rebecca Lawton
Rebecca Lawton is Professor in Psychology of Healthcare at University of Leeds, UK. She is also Director of the NIHR funded Yorkshire and Humber Patient Safety Research Collaboration as a behavioural scientist, Rebecca has a particular interest in the emotional, cognitive and behavioural factors that underpin safe care and the local and system level cultures, environments and processes that influence these.
Rebecca Lawton
Topics
Improving safety cultures
Learning from measurements, experiences, and root cause analysis
How to reduce risks in clinical pathways
Building resilience into the health care system
Balancing quality, economy, and equity
Choosing wisely
Regulation and policy
Health informatics and technology
Training and education
Co-creating care with service users
Leadership, logistics and work environment
Surgical safety
Other
Preconference get together: Results of Quality Improvement in Practice - "the Ahus Experience"
See how Akershus University Hospital has implemented improvement science theory into practice.
Meet other conference participants over a meal.
Discuss implementation experiences with staff from Akershus University Hospital
Participant fee for the Get Together is NOK 600 and includes bus transportation, an aperitif, tapas buffet and non-alcolohic beverages.
Organized Bus
The NSQH 2024 conference organizes bus transport from the Conference hotel to Akershus University Hospital.
The bus leaves at 4:15 PM.
Bus transport back to the Conference hotel leaves from Akershus University Hospital at 9:00 PM.
By Public Transportation
If you wish to take public transportation Ahus instead of the organized bus, the easiest route is bus 300 from either Oslo bussterminal (Bus Terminal) or Bjørvika in downtown Oslo. Use ruter.no, available as an app, to see departures and maps.
