Health-related quality of life in a large cohort of patients with cardiac implantable electronic devices A registry-based study.

Aim: The association of cardiac implantable electronic devices (CIED), namely pacemaker (PM), implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) and cardiac resynchronization therapy with (CRT-D) or without defibrillator (CRT-P) with health-related quality of life (HRQoL) is lacking.

Methods And Results: Data from the Swedish Pacemaker and ICD Registry collected from January 2019 to February 2022 was used to analyze the responses to the European Quality of Life-5 Dimension questionnaire (EQ-5D) before and after one year of the CIED implant. Descriptive analysis was performed using Pearson's chi-square test, the analysis of variance ANOVA, the Kruskal-Wallis test and Wilcoxon signed-rank test when appropriate.

Registered nurses' experiences of caring for patients with hypoactive delirium after cardiac surgery - A qualitative study.

Objectives: Delirium is a common post-cardiac surgery complication that presents as acute changes in mental abilities with confused thinking and a lack of awareness of the surroundings. Delirium symptoms present in hyperactive- and hypoactive forms. Hypoactive delirium is often overlooked.

A New Perspective on Missed Nursing Care in the Emergency Department: A Descriptive Cross-Sectional Study.

Introduction: This descriptive cross-sectional study describes missed nursing care, quality of care, and patient safety rated by nursing staff in emergency departments. Required patient care that is omitted or delayed (missed nursing care) is associated with poorer quality of care and increased risk for adverse events, but studies are scarce in the emergency setting.

Methods: Emergency registered nurses and nursing assistants (N=126) at 2 Swedish emergency departments participated in the study.

Missed nursing care in relation to registered nurses' level of education and self-reported evidence-based practice.

Background: Patient safety is one of the cornerstones of high-quality healthcare systems. Evidence-based practice is one way to improve patient safety from the nursing perspective. Another aspect of care that directly influences patient safety is missed nursing care.

Suffering in silence - Cardiac surgery patients recalling hypoactive delirium a qualitative descriptive study.

Objectives: Postoperative delirium affects up to 50% of patients undergoing cardiac surgery. Delirium phenotypes are commonly divided into hyperactive and hypoactive, with hypoactive symptoms (reduced motor activity and withdrawal) often being overlooked due to their discreet character. Although the consequences of hypoactive delirium are severe, studies focusing on patients' experiences of hypoactive delirium are scarce.

Management of modifiable risk factors and comorbidities in atrial fibrillation: suggestions for improvement from a patient perspective.

Aims: In patients with atrial fibrillation (AF), improved management of modifiable risk factors and concomitant diseases is recommended by guidelines, yet many AF patients have sub-optimal risk factor management. Digital health solutions may offer support in this matter. This study aims to identify how patients with AF perceive they could be supported by a digital tool aimed to optimize management of comorbidities and modifiable risk factors associated with an unhealthy lifestyle.

Differences between Registered Nurses and nurse assistants around missed nursing care-An observational, comparative study.

Background: From a nursing perspective, tasks that are not carried out, and the consequences of this, have been studied for over a decade. The difference between Registered Nurses (RNs) and nurse assistants (NAs) regarding qualifications and work tasks, and the profound knowledge around RN-to-patient ratios, warrants investigating missed nursing care (MNC) for each group rather than as one (nursing staff).

Aim: To describe and compare RNs and NAs ratings of and reasons for MNC at in-hospital wards.

The patient's experience of participation when admitted for elective surgical procedures: an interview study.

Purpose: To describe the patient's experience of participation in their care when admitted for elective surgical procedures.

Materials And Methods: A purposive sample of 14 patients who had undergone elective surgery was included in semi-structured individual interviews at a university hospital. The data was analysed using qualitative content analysis.

Perceptions of delay when afflicted by an acute myocardial infarction during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Aims: To describe the perceptions of delay in medical care-seeking, when afflicted by an acute myocardial infarction (AMI) during the first wave of the pandemic.

Methods And Results: A qualitative descriptive study with an inductive approach. Fourteen semi-structured interviews were conducted, analysed by qualitative content analysis with a manifest approach.

Missed nursing care in the critical care unit, before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: A comparative cross-sectional study.

Objectives: Todescribe and evaluate reported missed nursing care in the critical care context during different phases of the COVID-19 pandemic in Sweden.

Research Methodology: A comparative cross-sectional design was used, comparing missed nursing care in three samples: before the COVID-19 pandemic in 2019, during the second wave of the pandemic in spring 2020, and during the third wave of the pandemic in fall 2021.

Setting: The study was conducted at critical care units at a university hospital, Sweden.

Depression is associated with delirium after cardiac surgery-a population-based cohort study.

Objectives: Depression is common in patients with cardiac disease, and preoperative depression is associated with worse outcomes after cardiac surgery. Depression is also correlated with postoperative delirium (POD) after major surgery. However, the association between preoperative depression and POD after cardiac surgery is sparsely studied.

"My head feels like it has gone through a mixer" - a qualitative interview study on recovery 1 year after aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage.

Purpose: To describe patients' perceived and expected recovery 1 year after aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (aSAH).

Materials And Methods: Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 16 persons 1 year after aSAH. Inductive manifest qualitative content analysis was used.

Patient delay prior to care-seeking in acute myocardial infarction during the outbreak of the coronavirus SARS-CoV2 pandemic.

Aims: To examine patient delay in seeking medical care when afflicted by an acute myocardial infarction during March-June 2020.

Methods And Results: This was a cross-sectional study in a region in Sweden during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic examining patients selected from the national registry (SWEDEHEART). Eligible patients were those with acute myocardial infarction, and a total of 602 patients were invited.

Patient safety, quality of care and missed nursing care at a cardiology department during the COVID-19 outbreak.

Aim: To evaluate missed nursing care and patient safety during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic at in-patient cardiology wards.

Design: A cross-sectional design with a comparative approach.

Method: Registered nurses and nurse assistants at a cardiology department were invited to answer the MISSCARE Survey-Swedish version, and questions on patient safety and quality of care during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Missed nursing care during the COVID-19 pandemic: A comparative observational study.

Aim: To evaluate frequencies, types of and reasons for missed nursing care during the COVID-19 pandemic at inpatient wards in a highly specialized university hospital.

Background: Registered nurse/patient ratio and nursing competence are known to affect patient outcomes. The first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic entailed novel ways for staffing to meet the expected increased acute care demand, which potentially could impact on quality of care.

Depression as a predictor of postoperative delirium after cardiac surgery: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Objectives: Depression is common in patients with cardiac disease. The importance of preoperative depression for development of postoperative delirium (POD) following cardiac surgery is not well known. The aim is to provide a summary estimate of depression as a predictor of POD following cardiac surgery.

Translation, culture adaption and psychometric testing of the MISSCARE Survey-Swedish version.

Aim: To translate the MISSCARE Survey into Swedish and establish its validity and reliability by evaluating its psychometric properties.

Background: Missed nursing care is defined as any aspect of required nursing care that is omitted or delayed. The consequence of missed nursing care is a threat to patient safety.

Patients' experiences when afflicted by takotsubo syndrome - is it time for guidelines?

Background: Takotsubo syndrome (TTS) is an acute and reversible type of heart failure that shares common features with acute coronary syndrome. It is usually caused by psychological or physical stress, but for a third, triggers cannot be identified. Patients also suffer from residual symptoms and decreased mental health in the recovery phase and may struggle to comprehend and manage everyday living.

Inability to act was associated with an extended delay prior to care-seeking, in patients with an acute myocardial infarction.

Background: The out-of-hospital mortality in patients with acute myocardial infarction remains unchanged in contrast to a decrease in inhospital mortality. Interventions aiming to shorten patient delay have been largely unsuccessful. A deeper understanding is apparently needed on patients' appraisal prior to care-seeking.

Emotions delay care-seeking in patients with an acute myocardial infarction.

Background: In acute myocardial infarction the risk of death and loss of myocardial tissue is at its highest during the first few hours. However, the process from symptom onset to the decision to seek medical care can take time. To comprehend patients' pre-hospital delay, attention must be focused on the circumstances preceding the decision to seek medical care.

The turning point: from self-regulative illness behaviour to care-seeking in patients with an acute myocardial infarction.

Aims And Objectives: To describe the care-seeking process from interpretation of an initial symptom to the decision to seek medical care in patients with an acute myocardial infarction.

Background: Patients afflicted by symptoms of an acute myocardial infarction delay in seeking care far exceeding the desired time limits. This results in avoidable loss of life.