Research

Alma Becic Pedersen's research field is patient safety and clinical epidemiological research within the surgical treatment of patients with osteoarthritis of the hips and knees, as well as hip fractures. The overall goal of Alma's research is to understand the clinical course in order to establish an evidence-based basis for improving the quality of treatment, patient safety, patient course and complications. Alma focuses on risk factors for and mechanisms behind serious complications, such as infection and opioid consumption, and how the complications affect the prognosis. She also develops prediction models for complications as support tools in clinical practice. The projects are carried out in collaboration with leading Danish and international researchers.

Profile

Alma Becic Pedersen is a professor in patient safety and head of the research group AROSE (Aarhus Research Group in Orthopedic Surgery Epidemiology) at the Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Aarhus University. She has created a unique interdisciplinary research environment with close ties to a large international research network.

She is also a staff specialist at Aarhus University Hospital.

Alma is a medical doctor from the University of Zagreb, has a PhD in medicine and a DrMedSci from Aarhus University.

She has received research support from f.eks. Novo Nordisk Foundation and Independent Research Fund Denmark.

She is a career ambassador at Health, Aarhus University.

Commissioned

Alma Becic Pedersen teaches the elective course “Clinical Epidemiological Research Methods: Evidence-Based Medicine and Good Protocol Writing” at the post-graduate level at Aarhus University. The course places the methods in a clinical and patient care context and gives students a basic understanding of the epidemiological toolbox, which study designs and data sources are available, and what their strengths and weaknesses are, as well as how to work with epidemiological big data in practice.

She also teaches doctors the topics such as  registry research, clinical quality, and patient safety.

She is a consultant at Cochrane Aarhus, which is affiliated with the Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Aarhus University.