Publications by authors named "D Ostergaard"

Background: Mental health issues among healthcare professionals (HCPs) are rising, impacting individual wellbeing, healthcare systems, and patient safety. This exploratory study aimed to analyse the association between anaesthesia teams' perception of their mental wellbeing, psychosocial work environment, and patient safety culture in a university hospital's anaesthesiology department. Second, to identify types of stressors and strategies to overcome them.

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  • Diffuse midline glioma (DMG) is a highly aggressive brain cancer in children and young adults, with a poor prognosis of less than 10% survival rate after two years; radiotherapy is a key treatment but only offers short-term benefits.
  • The REMIT protocol aims to assess the safety and palliative effectiveness of reirradiation for DMG patients, while monitoring various health indicators, including performance status and quality of life.
  • The study will also address patient selection bias and standardization issues, with plans to begin patient inclusion in 2024.
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Introduction: A procedural change in the treatment of patients with femoral neck fracture from uncemented to cemented hemiarthroplasty was to be implemented to follow new national guidelines. In accordance with implementation science, it is important to understand the team's thoughts and educational needs. The study aimed to explore surgeons', scrub nurses', anaesthesiologists' and anaesthesia nurses' perceptions of barriers and facilitators to foster a safe educational introduction.

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Introduction: Patient safety (PS) is a global public health concern. It is estimated that 10% of patients experience preventable harm while hospitalized. Patient safety culture (PSC) has been recognized as essential to improving PS, drawing inspiration from other high-risk industries.

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Background: Team reflexivity and peer feedback in daily clinical work can improve patient safety. However, teams do not always engage in reflection after patient care. A reason could be that team members may lack skills in engaging in team reflection.

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