Ethics rounds in the ambulance service: a qualitative evaluation.

Background: It is a common ethical challenge for ambulance clinicians to care for patients with impaired decision-making capacities while assessing and determining the degree of decision-making ability and considering ethical values. Ambulance clinicians' ethical competence seems to be increasingly important in coping with such varied ethical dilemmas. Ethics rounds is a model designed to promote the development of ethical competence among clinicians.

Older patients' perceptions of the Swedish ambulance service: A qualitative exploratory study.

Background: As worldwide life expectancy increases, the Swedish Ambulance Service is likely to be affected by the demographic shift towards a larger proportion of older persons. An older population tends to increase the demand for ambulances, indicating a need to illuminate older patients' perspective. Thus, the aim of this study was to explore older patients' perceptions of the Swedish Ambulance Service.

Older patients' autonomy when cared for at emergency departments.

Background: Older patients in emergency care often have complex needs and may have limited ability to make their voices heard. Hence, there are ethical challenges for healthcare professionals in establishing a trustful relationship to determine the patient's preferences and then decide and act based on these preferences. With this comes further challenges regarding how the patient's autonomy can be protected and promoted.

Ethics education to support ethical competence learning in healthcare: an integrative systematic review.

Background: Ethical problems in everyday healthcare work emerge for many reasons and constitute threats to ethical values. If these threats are not managed appropriately, there is a risk that the patient may be inflicted with moral harm or injury, while healthcare professionals are at risk of feeling moral distress. Therefore, it is essential to support the learning and development of ethical competencies among healthcare professionals and students.

The core of patient-participation in the Intensive Care Unit: The patient's views.

Objectives: Patient participation is an established concept in public welfare. However, reports of the phenomenon of patient participation during intensive care from the patient's point of view are scarce. Therefore, the aim of this study was to explore the meaning of patient participation in the intensive care unit from the patient's perspective.

Staff strategies for dealing with care situations at an emergency department.

Introduction: Overcrowding is a common international problem at Emergency Departments often due to those patients get recommendations or referrals from other health professionals to seek care at the emergency department. Crowding brings with it an amount of adverse consequences for both patients and staff, and knowledge about staff's strategies of dealing with this caring situation is limited.

Aim: The aim of the present study was thus to describe staffs' strategies to deal with the caring situations at an emergency department.

Patients' Perspective on Participation in Care With or Without the Support of a Smartphone App During Radiotherapy for Prostate Cancer: Qualitative Study.

Background: Patients with prostate cancer are often cared for as outpatients during radiotherapy, which can be an aggravating circumstance for patient participation. There is a need to evaluate whether an interactive smartphone app could enable participation in care, specifically during treatment for prostate cancer. The interactive app (Interaktor) used in this study is developed in codesign with patients and health care professionals; it includes daily reports of symptoms, a risk assessment model, evidence-based self-care advice, along with the provision of immediate access to clinicians.

Factors contributing to serious adverse events in nursing homes.

Aims And Objectives: To identify the most common serious adverse events that occurred in nursing homes and their most frequent contributing factors to the improvement of safe nursing care.

Background: There is a need to improve safe nursing care in nursing homes. Residents are often frail and vulnerable with extensive needs for nursing care.

Patient participation in the intensive care unit.

Objective: Patient participation in healthcare is important for optimizing treatment outcomes and for ensuring satisfaction with care. The purpose of the study wasto explore critical care nurses' perceptions of patient participation for critically ill patients.

Design And Settings: Qualitative data were collected in four separate focus group interviews with 17 nurses from two hospitals.

Early detection and management of symptoms using an interactive smartphone application (Interaktor) during radiotherapy for prostate cancer.

Purpose: Patients undergoing radiotherapy for prostate cancer suffer from a variety of symptoms which influence health-related quality of life. We have developed an application (Interaktor) for smartphones and tablets for early detection, reporting and management of symptoms, and concerns during treatment for prostate cancer. The study evaluates the effect on symptom burden and quality of life when using the application for real-time symptom assessment and management during radiotherapy for localized prostate cancer.

Symptoms and self-care following pancreaticoduodenectomy: Perspectives from patients and healthcare professionals - Foundation for an interactive ICT application.

Purpose: Poor prognosis and a problematic recovery period after pancreaticoduodenectomy means that patients may benefit from early detection of symptoms and support for self-management. Interactive Information and Communication Technology tools can be used for this purpose, but the content needs to be relevant to patients as well as healthcare professionals. To facilitate development of the content of an application for this purpose, the aim of this study was to explore common symptoms and self-care in the first six months after pancreaticoduodenectomy, as identified by patients and healthcare professionals.

Patients' strategies to deal with their situation at an emergency department.

Introduction: The care in the emergency department (ED) is often characterised by high standards of efficiency and rapid treatment and the encounter between patient and staff can be described as both short and fragmented. Research within this field has mostly been performed with quantitative measurements and patients are both satisfied and vulnerable in their care at an ED. There is a lack of qualitative studies about patient's strategies to deal with their situation.

Questionnaire for patient participation in emergency departments: development and psychometric testing.

Aim: The aim of the study was to develop and test the psychometric properties of a patient participation questionnaire in emergency departments.

Background: Patient participation is an important indicator of the quality of healthcare. International and national healthcare policy guidelines promote patient participation.

Patient participation in the emergency department: an evaluation using a specific instrument to measure patient participation (PPED).

Aim: This study aimed at evaluating patient participation from the perspective of patients who received care in emergency departments, with a separate examination of the relationship between participation and age, gender, education and priority level.

Background: International and national guidelines encourage patient participation. High patient participation is required to ensure a high quality of care.

Patient participation in emergency care - a phenomenographic analysis of caregivers' conceptions.

Aims And Objectives: The aim of this study was to describe caregivers' conceptions of patient participation in an emergency care unit.

Background: Patient participation is an important goal in health care. Patients who are given the opportunity to participate in care situations are able to influence care in a way that is more beneficial to them.

Patient participation in emergency care - a phenomenographic study based on patients' lived experience.

International guidelines promote patient participation in health care. When patients participate in their care they experience greater satisfaction. Studies have shown that patients in emergency departments express dissatisfaction with their care, and it was therefore important to study how patients understand and conceptualize their participation.