Researching Quality in Care Transitions - International Perspectives

This book is concerned with the complexities of achieving quality in care transitions. The organization and accomplishment of high quality care transitions relies upon the coordination of multiple professionals, working within and across multiple care processes, settings and organizations, each with their own distinct ways of working, profile of resources, and modes of organizing. In short, care transitions might easily be regarded as complex activities that take place within complex systems, which can make accomplishing high quality care challenging. As a subject of enquiry, care transitions are approached from many research, improvement and policy perspectives: from group psychology and human factors to social and political theory; from applied process re-engineering projects to exploratory ethnographic studies; from large-scale policy innovations to local improvements initiatives. This collection will provide a unique cross-disciplinary and multi-level analysis, where each chapter presents a particular depth of insight and analysis, and together offer a holistic and detail understand of care transitions.

Karina Aase, is the Centre Director of SHARE, Centre for Resilience in Healthcare, within the Department of Health Studies at the University of Stavanger, Norway, where she is also Professor of Patient Safety.

Justin Waring is Professor of Organisational Sociology and Associate Dean for Research at Nottingham University Business School, UK where he founded the Centre for Health Innovation, Leadership & Learning (CHILL), and in 2013 was awarded a Health Foundation Improvement Science Fellowship.

Lene Schibevaag has a background as physiotherapist with a master in Societal Safety from the University of Stavanger, Norway and is Research Coordinator at SHARE, Centre for Resilience in Healthcare, Department of Health Studies at the University of Stavanger, Norway.