Postdoctoral Researcher in a Project Focused on Patients' Role in Reducing Low-Value Care in Healthcare

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The Department of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics (LIME) works in some of the key areas that are important to fulfill Karolinska Institutet's mission "to improve human health". We focus on research, development, and education in the following areas: medical pedagogy, informatics, management, ethics, and suicide prevention. LIME has approximately 110 employees and is located at the Solna Campus.
The research group Procome, at the Medical Management Centre, LIME is looking for a postdoctoral researcher for 2 years, full-time, with a focus on the use of evidence-based methods in healthcare, specifically regarding the use and phasing out of unnecessary interventions.

Your mission

The work will take place within a Kamprad-funded research project “Patients' Role in reducing Low-Value Care”. The starting point is that many interventions in healthcare are used despite lacking support in research, so-called low-value care. These interventions are at best unnecessary and at worst cause harm and should therefore be de-implemented, i.e., stopped being used. A contributing factor to the use of low-value interventions, according to previous research, is that patients demand and expect the interventions, but the research lacks the patients' perspective. The project aims to fill an important knowledge gap by investigating why patients demand low-value interventions and how patients can be involved in the work to reduce these. The methods that will be used to investigate the reasons for demand are qualitative interviews and survey experiments, so-called factorial survey experiments. Based on the knowledge from these, proposals for interventions to reduce the demand for low-value interventions will be co-created with healthcare staff and patient representatives. The relevance and usability of the interventions will be evaluated and finally, the ability of the interventions to reduce low-value care will be tested in a new survey experiment.

As a postdoctoral researcher, you will be involved in all parts of the projects. The tasks include designing and planning as well as conducting the studies in collaboration with the research group, collecting data (mainly through interviews and surveys), and conducting qualitative and quantitative analyses. The tasks also include writing scientific articles and presenting the results at scientific conferences, and may also include helping organizations interpret and implement the results. Finally, the tasks also include administrative tasks related to the research process, including establishing routines related to research documentation.

Your profile

To be eligible for employment as a postdoctor, a PhD or a foreign degree deemed to be equivalent to a Swedish PhD is required. This eligibility requirement must be fulfilled at the latest at the time of the employment decision. Completion of your doctoral degree within the last three years is considered an advantage. If there are special reasons, your degree may have been completed earlier.

We are looking for those who have:

• Doctoral degree in relevant areas of the project such as healthcare research, psychology, or behavioral science.
• Strong interest in the research area (evidence-based work in healthcare generally and specifically de-implementation of low-value care).
• Verified experience in planning and conducting qualitative and quantitative research projects.
• Experience in collecting data through interviews and surveys.
• Excellent skills in qualitative data analysis.
• Experience in statistical analyses (Experience with specific analyses exists within the research group).
• Experience in writing and publishing scientific articles and presenting results at scientific conferences.
• Excellent skills in Swedish, both spoken and written.
• Very good skills in English, both spoken and written.

It is an advantage if you have the following skills:

• Experience in research and/or practical work within healthcare.
• Experience in administrative tasks related to the research process, including establishing routines related to research documentation.
• Experience in working independently with research tasks.
• Good collaboration and communication skills.
• We also place great emphasis on your social competence, ability to collaborate, and willingness to provide service.

What do we offer?

A creative and inspiring environment with wide-ranging expertise and interests. Karolinska Institutet is one of the world's leading medical universities. At Karolinska Institutet, we conduct successful medical research and hold the largest range of medical education in Sweden. At KI, you get to meet researchers working with a wide range of specialisms and methods, giving you ample opportunity to exchange knowledge and experience with the various scientific fields within medicine and health. It is the crossover collaborations, which have pushed KI to where it is today, at the forefront of global research. Several of the people you meet in healthcare are educated at KI. A close relationship with the health care providers is important for creating groundbreaking top quality education and research. Karolinska Institutet is also a state university, which entitles you to several benefits through our collective agreement.

Location: Solna

Application

An employment application must contain the following documents in English or Swedish:

• PhD certificate
• A complete resumé, including date of the thesis defence, title of the thesis, previous academic positions, academic title, current position, academic distinctions, and committee work
• A complete list of publications
• A summary of current work (no more than one page)

Welcome to apply at the latest 2025-05-05

The application is to be submitted through the Varbi recruitment system.

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