18th International Workshop on Behavioural Science Applied to Healthcare

Important dates

• Call for abstracts BSAH 2024: May 1st
• Deadline for abstract submission: September 17
• Notification of abstract acceptance: September 27 (10 days for review)

Accommodation

Hotel rooms are prebooked at a discounted price. Please note that the hotel rooms are reserved until October 1st.

In the registration portal, you will find a link to the two hotels (Ydalir Hotel on campus and Scandic Stavanger City) with a discounted price and the booking code. Please organize your own travel and hotel arrangements.

Conference fee

Conference Full Pass Delegate of 300 Euro includes access to all conference sessions and poster area, coffee/tee breaks, lunch for all the conference days and conference dinner.

Conference One Day Pass (November 29th or 30th) of 200 Euro includes access to all conference sessions and poster area, coffee/tea breaks, and one-day lunch. 

Getting to Stavanger

We recommend arriving by air at Stavanger Airport, which serves as the closest international gateway.

Abstract submission

The deadline for abstract submission to BSAH 2024 is 17^th of September 2024. We welcome abstracts from all healthcare areas, reflecting the conference's name change this year.

Abstracts should report novel work that is completed or nearly completed. Abstracts may be up to a maximum of 350 words, and they may include one table or figure if necessary. Work that has been accepted by a peer-reviewed journal and is “in press” at the time of abstract submission is acceptable. Work that has been presented to another national or international meeting or that has been accepted for presentation is also acceptable. Work that has appeared in print by the time of the abstract submission will not be accepted. Depending on interest/number of submissions, a session will be devoted to these presentations.  

Please indicate your preference for poster or oral presentation in your submission.

Abstracts should be e-mailed to bsah2024@uis.no (as PDF attachments) and should follow the attached submission template. You will receive an e-mail confirming that the document has been received. All abstracts will be evaluated on merit; however, given our aim to enhance cross-institution dialogue on a line of research that interests us all, we aim for a maximum of two oral presentations from a single institution. A decision will be communicated to the corresponding author by September 20 at the latest. 

Program

The final program will be ready on October 20^th.

Keynote speakers

November 29

Nothing about me without me? Patients and families as integral team members for the provision of safe care

Jane O’Hara is a Professor and Director of Research at The Healthcare Improvement Studies (THIS) Institute, and a patient safety researcher with extensive experience of developing and evaluating interventions to improve the safety of care. Her current portfolio includes a range of research programs to improve the quality and safety of maternity services, the potential for safety management systems in healthcare, how safety policy supports safety work, and engaging patients and families in patient safety. Jane also holds Visiting Professor positions at the University of Leeds, and the SHARE Centre for Resilience in Healthcare at the University of Stavanger, Norway.

Effective teamwork in prehospital and emergency settings – How far have we come, and do we need more knowledge?

Guttorm Brattebø is Professor in trauma at Dept. of Anaesthesia & Intensive Care at Haukeland University Hospital and the University of Bergen, Norway. In 1997 he was co-founder of the Norwegian BEST (Better and Systematic Team training) foundation, introducing teamtraining  with simulation principles, which now has been integrated into a variety of hospital and general practice activities. His research interest has been quality improvement and patient safety, with special emphasise on teams and operational psychology.

November 30

Interprofessional teamwork in primary care: The role of functional heterogeneity, leadership and autonomy

Alissa Lysanne van Zijl is Assistant Professor at Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences within the Management and Organisation team. She has conducted in-depth studies of teamwork in the public sector, including primary care teams.

Bram Steijn is Professor on Human Resource Management in the Public Sector at the Department of Public Administration and Sociology within the Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences at Erasmus University Rotterdam. He is a sociologist by background with particular interests into theory and research about work motivation (public service motivation in particular), the relation between organizational change in the public sector on the one hand and job satisfaction and commitment on the other hand, and the relation between human research management and job performance.

What is the perfect teamwork intervention? Experiences with implementation of the TeamSTEPPS program in a hospital setting

Randi Ballangrud is an Associate Professor at the Department of Health Sciences in Gjøvik,NTNU. She is a Critical Care Nurse and PhD within patient safety in intensive care nursing. She has been the project manager for “Teamwork in hospital -  a Human Factor Approach”. Randi’s main research interests are patient safety, teamwork in healthcare, safety culture, Human Factors.  

Oddveig Reiersdal Aaberg is an Associate Professor at the University of Agder, Department of Health and Nursing Science. She is a Critical Care Nurse with a PhD in Patient Safety and Interprofessional teamwork in hospitals. Main research areas are Human Factors, interprofessional teamwork in healthcare, and patient safety.