Sara Tolf
Research Specialist
E-mail: sara.tolf@ki.se
Visiting address: Widerströmska huset, Tomtebodavägen 18A, 17165 Solna
Postal address: C7 Lärande, Informatik, Management och Etik, C7 MMC Nyström, 171 77 Stockholm
About me
- I am Phd in medical management and I have basic training at Uppsala
university in Human Relations focusing on organizational sociology. My
research focuses on how hospital organizations cope and act on the
increasingly complex, changing and unpredictable environment and how
hospitals better can link and balance operational and strategic levels in
order to meet the needs of patients and using public financing optimally.
To date, development initiatives in Swedish hospitals have principally
addressed improvement of processes on operational levels and how to improve
care processes as such. Less emphasis has been paid to develop the strategic
ability of a hospital management to interpret and act on environmental
changes. By turning to other research fields, like strategic management and
process designs in private industry we attempt to explore ideas, developed
in other fields that potentially could influence hospital organizationis to
improve their design of how to link the ever-changing environment to the
every day work with care. Being very conscious about the differences in
logic between a private market and the public service context, we try to
understand what, if any, mecanisms fits the context as a hospital, functions
within.
Teaching
- 2017. Lecturer in the master program course “Health care organization and
management (7, 5 credits)”.
2015-2016 .Lecturer, examiner, supervisor in the master program course
”Leadership and organization “ (30 credits) part 1 och 2, LIME,
Karolinska Institutet
2009-2011 Coordinator and lecturer for the nurse program course, semester
five, titled “Pedagogics, Informatics and Leadership” (7, 5 credits),
LIME, Karolinska Institutet
Articles
- Article: FRONTIERS IN PUBLIC HEALTH. 2023;11:957653
- Article: HEALTH SERVICES MANAGEMENT RESEARCH. 2022;35(4):215-228
- Article: BMC HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH. 2022;22(1):662
- Article: JOURNAL OF HEALTH ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT. 2021;35(5):596-613
- Article: BMC HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH. 2020;20(1):816
- Article: JOURNAL OF HEALTH ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT. 2012;26(2):237-257
- Article: QUALITY MANAGEMENT IN HEALTH CARE. 2012;21(2):93-103
- Article: QUALITY MANAGEMENT IN HEALTH CARE. 2012;21(1):34-43
- Article: LAKARTIDNINGEN. 2009;106(47):3168-3173
All other publications
- Review: JOURNAL OF MEDICAL INTERNET RESEARCH. 2022;24(8):e38980
- Preprint: JMIR PREPRINTS. 2022
- Editorial comment: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HEALTH POLICY AND MANAGEMENT. 2021;10(6):338-342
- Review: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HEALTH CARE QUALITY ASSURANCE. 2015;28(5):468-493
Grants
- FK Hälsa - National initiative for delivery care and womens health - national, regional and local strategies for supporting and achieving changeSwedish Ministry of Health and Social Affairs - via Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions1 May 2017 - 31 December 2025
- Swedish Research Council1 January 2011 - 31 December 2013
- Future welfare services - New ways for innovative development of health and social servicesVINNOVA1 January 2009 - 1 January 2013
Employments
- Research Specialist, Department of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, Karolinska Institutet, 2022-
Degrees and Education
- Degree Of Doctor Of Philosophy, Karolinska Institutet, 2017