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Health Systems Leadership, Management, and Safety – Carl Savage's group

We strive to bridge the ̽ѡ management know-do gap by researching, developing, and disseminating innovative management practices together with practitioners, patients, and informal care givers.

About us

We recognize the many examples of high quality clinical work that exist across health care contexts. We also acknowledge the frustrations of staff, managers, politicians, patients, and informal care givers regarding experiences, costs, and outcomes of health care. That is why our goal is to establish long-term research and educational collaborations with health care stakeholders to understand and share concrete examples of what works and how to make things better.

The research group aims to improve clinical impact by contributing to the knowledge about how we:

  • coordinate
  • lead
  • innovate 
  • improve

health care services to generate better outcomes for patients and more value for staff, individuals, and their families.

We employ participatory multi-method research designs to contribute to our collaborators' learning and advance the existing evidence base in health care management. Our projects typically start with a real world clinical management challenge and should you find yourself in such a situation, you are very welcome to contact us. 

Head of the research group

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Carl Savage

Research group leader
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Carl Savage has a background in medicine and management. His main areas of research expertise include Leadership, Learning, Organizations, Improvement and Innovation as well as a passion for improving patient safety.

Publications

Selected publications

  • Article: BMJ OPEN. 2020;10(7):e035542
    Savage M; Savage C; Brommels M; Mazzocato P
  • Article: BMJ OPEN. 2020;10(6):e032573
    Keel G; Muhammad R; Savage C; Spaak J; Gonzalez I; Lindgren P; Guttmann C; Mazzocato P
  • Article: SCANDINAVIAN JOURNAL OF TRAUMA RESUSCITATION & EMERGENCY MEDICINE. 2015;23:93
    Mazzocato P; Unbeck M; Elg M; Skoldenberg OG; Thor J
  • Article: BMJ QUALITY & SAFETY. 2015;24(7):451-457
    Fredriksson JJ; Ebbevi D; Savage C
  • Article: JOURNAL OF HEALTH ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT. 2014;28(2):266-288
    Mazzocato P; Thor J; Backman U; Brommels M; Carlsson J; Jonsson F; Hagmar M; Savage C
  • Article: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF TUBERCULOSIS AND LUNG DISEASE. 2013;17(8):1029-1035
    Wannheden C; Westling K; Savage C; Sandahl C; Ellenius J
  • Article: LAKARTIDNINGEN. 2012;109(32-33):1388-1389
    Tomson T; Tomson G; Savage C
  • Article: JOURNAL OF HEALTH ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT. 2012;26(2):237-257
    Øvretveit J; Andreen-Sachs M; Carlsson J; Gustafsson H; Hansson J; Keller C; Lofgren S; Mazzocato P; Tolf S; Brommels M
  • Article: BMC HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH. 2012;12:28
    Mazzocato P; Holden RJ; Brommels M; Aronsson H; Backman U; Elg M; Thor J
  • Article: SCANDINAVIAN JOURNAL OF TRAUMA RESUSCITATION & EMERGENCY MEDICINE. 2011;19:70
    Mazzocato P; Forsberg HH; Schwarz UVT
  • Article: NURSE EDUCATION TODAY. 2011;31(8):803-808
    Savage C; Amanalibi S; Andersson A; Lohr SC; Eliasson Z; Eriksson H; Erlandsson A; Goobar S; Holm J; Johansson C; Langendahl E; Lindberg A; Lundin J; Uhrdin A; Schwarz UVT
  • Article: JOURNAL OF HEALTH ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT. 2011;25(4):455-468
    Bergin E; Savage C
  • Article: QUALITY AND SAFETY IN HEALTH CARE. 2010;19(5):376-382
    Mazzocato P; Savage C; Brommels M; Aronsson H; Thor J
  • Article: MEDICAL TEACHER. 2009;31(11):e500-e506
    Esmaily HM; Savage C; Vahidi R; Amini A; Dastgiri S; Hult H; Dahlgren LO; Wahlstrom R
  • Article: MEDICAL TEACHER. 2008;30(5):501-507
    Savage C; Brommels M
  • Article: BMC MEDICAL EDUCATION. 2008;8:33
    Esmaily HM; Savage C; Vahidi R; Amini A; Zarrintan MH; Wahlstrom R
  • Article: LAKARTIDNINGEN. 2008;105(20):1457-1458
    Savage C; Härenstam KP
  • Article: MEDICAL TEACHER. 2008;30(1):55-61
    Bergman D; Savage C; Wahlstrom R; Sandahl C

Staff and contact

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Projects

Current projects 

  • Home monitoring for people living with chronic conditions 
  • Organisational responses to COVID-19
  • Exploring the role of machine learning/Artificial Intelligence (AI) in complex chronic care 
  • Value creating strategies/Value-Based Health Care (VBHC)
  • Patient-driven innovations
  • Team-training and patient safety 
  • AI implementation 
  • Effective ̽ѡ leadership  
  • Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing (TDABC)

Completed PhD-projects 

  • : "How can health care organizations create value? Business model explorations"
  • : "Innovation inside the box : how contextual constraints can contribute to improvement in health care"
  • Anthony Larsson: "Too big to fail? A case study of the rise and fall of a ̽ѡ research infrastructure"
  • : "Counting what counts: time-driven activity-based costing in health care"
  • : "Transforming ̽ѡ competency into ̽ѡ management capability: developing physician leaders by finding management in medicine"
  • : "Enterprise within the enterprise"
Keywords:
Artificial Intelligence Artificial Intelligence Change Management Crew Resource Management, Healthcare Epidemiology Health Care Costs Health Care Economics and Organizations Health Care Service and Management, Health Policy and Services and Health Economy High Reliability Organizations Leadership Learning Health System Management Service Organizations Organizational Innovation Patient Safety Public Health, Global Health and Social Medicine Quality Improvement Resilience, Psychological Total Quality Management Value-Based Health Care Show all
Content reviewer:
18-04-2024