Surgery

Arvid Steinar Haugen has his research expertise in surveys and clinical quality improvement trials of patient safety interventions with focus on surgical safety checklists, since 2008. He has clinical experience as a nurse anaesthetists since 1999 at Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway. His research include further trials on safety checklists in surgical wards, handover protocols, discharge checklist from medical wards and development of checklists for patients to use. He was awarded with the European Society of Anesthesiologists’ Baxter Prize in 2015 for the publication: Effect of the World Health Organization Checklist on Patient Outcomes: A Stepped Wedge Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial. Ann Surg. He is currently a visiting senior Post-Doc Researcher at the Centre of Implementation Science, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, Health Service & Population Research Department, Kings College London, UK.