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Hospital managers’ perspectives with implementing quality improvement measures and a new regulatory framework: a qualitative case study (2020)
Journal Article
Øyri, S. F., Braut, G. S., MacRae, C., & Wiig, S. (2020). Hospital managers’ perspectives with implementing quality improvement measures and a new regulatory framework: a qualitative case study. BMJ Open, 10(12), https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2020-042847

© A new regulatory framework to support local quality and safety efforts in hospitals was introduced to the Norwegian healthcare system in 2017. This study aimed to investigate hospital managers' perspectives on implementation efforts and the result... Read More about Hospital managers’ perspectives with implementing quality improvement measures and a new regulatory framework: a qualitative case study.

Defining adaptive capacity in healthcare: A new framework for researching resilient performance (2020)
Journal Article
Anderson, J., Ross, A. J., Macrae, C., & Wiig, S. (2020). Defining adaptive capacity in healthcare: A new framework for researching resilient performance. Applied Ergonomics, 87, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apergo.2020.103111

Resilience principles show promise for improving the quality of healthcare, but there is a need for further theoretical development to include all levels and scales of activity across the whole healthcare system. Many existing models based on enginee... Read More about Defining adaptive capacity in healthcare: A new framework for researching resilient performance.

Redesigning safety regulation in the NHS (2020)
Journal Article
Vincent, C., Oikonomou, E., Carthey, J., & Macrae, C. (2020). Redesigning safety regulation in the NHS. BMJ, 368, https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.m760

Healthcare relies on a variety of regulatory activities to manage risks to the public and drive improvement. However, the regulation of patient safety in healthcare, and in the NHS in particular, is ‘bewildering in its complexity and prone to both ov... Read More about Redesigning safety regulation in the NHS.