Collaborative extended home-visits as a key to facilitating early support within the frame of a family centre in Sweden.

Background: All children should have the possibility to be healthy during childhood, according to the Convention on the Rights of the Child. In Sweden, the Child Health Services (CHS) support all parents and children from birth until the age of six to promote children's health and development. Some Swedish regions have introduced an extended home-visit programme, with CHS nurses and social workers visiting first-time parents together to provide parental support in collaboration.

The Safe Environment for Every Kid Model in the Swedish Child Health Services: Adoption and Introduction in a Healthcare Region.

Background: Early support for children and families in need can improve children's health and development. In a Swedish region, a new working model called Safe Environment for Every Kid (SEEK) was introduced in the Child Health Services to facilitate the early identification of psychosocial risk factors.

Objective: The aim of this study was to describe the adoption and introduction of the SEEK model in the Child Health Services of Region Jönköping County.

Early phase clinical trials in pediatric oncology: Swedish pediatric oncologists' experiences of balancing hope and expectations in life-threatening illnesses.

Aim: To study Swedish pediatric oncologists' practical and emotional experiences of referring, including and/or treating children in early-phase clinical trials.

Methods: A nationwide study was conducted using a mixed-method approach. Structured interviews based on a study-specific questionnaire and participants' personal reflections were utilized.

What is best for Esther? A simple question that moves mindsets and improves care.

Background: Persons in need of services from different care providers in the health and welfare system often struggle when navigating between them. Connecting and coordinating different health and welfare providers is a common challenge for all involved. This study presents a long-term regional empirical example from Sweden-ESTHER, which has lasted for more than two decades-to show how some of those challenges could be met.

Lived experience of persons with multiple sclerosis: A qualitative interview study.

Introduction: Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic autoimmune disease with a substantial impact on quality of life and functional capability. The prognosis of MS has changed over time due to the development of increasingly effective therapies. As the knowledge and perceptions of persons living with chronic conditions increasingly have been acknowledged, it has become important to understand lived experiences with a focus on everyday events and experiences as a way of knowing and interpreting the world.

How a point-of-care dashboard facilitates co-production of health care and health for and with individuals with psychotic disorders: a mixed-methods case study.

Background: Individuals with psychotic disorders experience widespread treatment failures and risk early death. Sweden's largest department specializing in psychotic disorders sought to improve patients' health by developing a point-of-care dashboard to support joint planning and co-production of care. The dashboard was tested for 18 months and included more than 400 patients at two outpatient clinics.

'It's like a never-ending diabetes youth camp': Co-designing a digital social network for young people with type 1 diabetes.

Introduction: Living with a chronic condition such as type 1 diabetes (T1D) affects everyday life and support from others experiencing a similar situation can be helpful. A way to receive such support is to use an online network where people can connect and share experiences. Research has described the benefits of using such tools for connecting patients.

Patients' Experiences Using Closed Incision Negative Pressure Wound Therapy Dressing After Infra-Inguinal Vascular Surgery.

The PICO™ dressing utilizes incisional negative pressure wound therapy in reducing surgical site infection after vascular surgery; however, no patient-reported investigations are available. The objective was to explore patientś experiences wearing the PICO™ dressing for 7 days. Nine men and 6 women were interviewed, and analysis was conducted using qualitative content analysis.

Newly graduated nurses' experiences of the intervention graduate guidance nurses: A qualitative interview study.

Aims: This study is describing newly graduated nurses' experiences of the intervention graduate guidance nurses.

Background: Newly graduated nurses need support to become established in the profession. The intervention was initiated to empower and support in the professional role.

The role of co-production in Learning Health Systems.

Background: Co-production of health is defined as 'the interdependent work of users and professionals who are creating, designing, producing, delivering, assessing, and evaluating the relationships and actions that contribute to the health of individuals and populations'. It can assume many forms and include multiple stakeholders in pursuit of continuous improvement, as in Learning Health Systems (LHSs). There is increasing interest in how the LHS concept allows integration of different knowledge domains to support and achieve better health.

Quality as strategy, the evolution of co-production in the Region Jönköping health system, Sweden: a descriptive qualitative study.

Background: Pursuing the vision 'for a good life in an attractive region,' the Region Jönköping County (RJC) in Sweden oversees public health and health-care services for its 360 000 residents. For more than three decades, RJC has applied 'quality as strategy,' which has included increasing involvement of patients, family and friends and citizens. This practice has evolved, coinciding with the growing recognition of co-production as a fundamental feature in health-care services.

Healthcare professionals' experiences of being observed regarding hygiene routines: the Hawthorne effect in vascular surgery.

Background: The Hawthorne Effect is the change in behaviour by subjects due to their awareness of being observed and is evident in both research and clinical settings as a result of various forms of observation. When the Hawthorne effect exists, it is short-lived, and likely leads to increased productivity, compliance, or adherence to standard protocols. This study is a qualitative component of an ongoing multicentre study, examining the role of Incisional Negative Pressure Wound Therapy after vascular surgery (INVIPS Trial).

Professionals' experiences of using an improvement programme: applying quality improvement work in preschool contexts.

Background: Improvement work can be used in preschools to enrich outdoor environment for children's better health. Effective improvement work can facilitate the necessary changes, but little is known about professionals' experiences of participation in improvement interventions. The aim was to evaluate how preschool staff experience quality improvement work, using the Breakthrough Series Collaborative improvement programme, to enhance outdoor environments.

Using Complexity Assessment to Inform the Development and Deployment of a Digital Dashboard for Schizophrenia Care: Case Study.

Background: Health care is becoming more complex. For an increasing number of individuals, interacting with health care means addressing more than just one illness or disorder, engaging in more than one treatment, and interacting with more than one care provider. Individuals with severe mental illnesses such as schizophrenia are disproportionately affected by this complexity.

Prospective sensemaking of a national quality register in health care and elderly care.

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine how external change agents (ECAs) engaged to disseminate a national quality register (NQR) called Senior alert nationwide in the Swedish health care and elderly care sectors interpret their work. To study this, sensemaking theories are used. Design/methodology/approach This is a qualitative inductive interview study including eight ECAs.

Sensemaking and cognitive shifts - learning from dissemination of a National Quality Register in health care and elderly care.

Purpose The purpose of this study is to examine and establish how sensemaking develops among a group of external change agents (ECAs) engaged to disseminate a national quality register nationwide in Swedish health care and elderly care. To study the emergent sensemaking, the theoretical concept of cognitive shift has been used. Design/methodology/approach The data collection method included individual semi-structured interviews, and two sets of interviews (initial sensemaking and renewed sensemaking) have been conducted.

Identification of Children as Relatives With a Systematic Approach; a Prerequisite in Order to Offer Advice and Support.

The purpose of this study was to elucidate conditions at all system levels in a specific health care service to develop practices for identification of children as relatives. An interactive research approach with the intention to create mutual learning between practice and research was used. The participating health care service cared for both clinic in- and outpatients with psychiatric disorders.

Quality indicators and their regular use in clinical practice: results from a survey among users of two cardiovascular National Registries in Sweden.

Objective: To examine the regular use of quality indicators from Swedish cardiovascular National Quality Registries (NQRs) by clinical staff; particularly differences in use between the two NQRs and between nurses and physicians.

Design: Cross-sectional online survey study.

Setting: Two Swedish cardiovascular NQRs: (a) Swedish Heart Failure Registry and (b) Swedeheart.

Applying adult development theories to improvement science.

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to address how adult development (AD) theories can contribute to quality improvement (QI). Design/methodology/approach A theoretical analysis and discussion on how personal development empirical findings can relate to QI and Deming's four improvement knowledge domains. Findings AD research shows that professionals have qualitatively diverse ways of meaning-making and ways to approach possibilities in improvement efforts.

Emergent programme theories of a national quality register - a longitudinal study in Swedish elderly care.

Rationale, Aim, And Objective: This study aimed to explore programme theories of a national quality register. A programme theory is a bundle of assumptions underpinning how and why an improvement initiative functions. The purpose was to examine and establish programme theories of a national quality register widely used in Sweden: Senior alert.

An Improvement Program as a Way to Intensify Inter-Professional Collaboration in the Community for People with Mental Disabilities: A Follow-Up.

The aim of the study was to follow up inter-professional experiences of improvement work one year after a completed CII improvement program aiming at improve health care and social services for people with mental disabilities living in ordinary housing. This study was performed with a qualitative descriptive approach which employed six focus group interviews followed by a thematic analysis. The results revealed four themes; Self-awareness and insights; Behavior and actions in daily practice; Organizational cultures and subcultures; and Organizational practices, using Ken Wilbers' integral theory of four quadrants of realities as a holistic frame in the discussion.

Challenges to Improve Inter-Professional Care and Service Collaboration for People Living With Psychiatric Disabilities in Ordinary Housing.

The aim of this study was to describe health care- and social service professionals' experiences of a quality-improvement program implemented in the south of Sweden. The focus of the program was to develop inter-professional collaboration to improve care and service to people with psychiatric disabilities in ordinary housing. Focus group interviews and a thematic analysis were used.

Two different strategies to facilitate involvement in healthcare improvements: a Swedish county council initiative.

Background: From a management point of view, there are many different approaches from which to choose to engage staff members in initiatives to improve performance.

Objective: The present study evaluated how two different types of improvement strategies facilitate and encourage involvement of different professional groups in health-care organizations.

Methods/design: Empirical data of two different types of strategies were collected within an improvement project in a County Council in Sweden.