The balance between professional autonomy and organizational obligations in resilient management of specialized health care: A Norwegian document study.

Background: Adverse events in hospitals may jeopardize the safety of patients. Failure in professional autonomy, organizational learning or in the contact between these two factors may explain the occurrence of injurious incidents in hospitals.

Objective: To study reasons for failure in contact between professional autonomy and organizational learning in resilient management of specialized health care through document analysis.