Automated Oxygen Administration Alleviates Dyspnea in Patients Admitted with Acute Exacerbation of COPD: A Randomized Controlled Trial.

Objective: Devices for Automated Oxygen Administration (AOA) have been developed to optimize the therapeutic benefit of oxygen supplementation. We aimed to investigate the effect of AOA on multidimensional aspects of dyspnea and as-needed consumption of opioids and benzodiazepines, as opposed to conventional oxygen therapy, in hospitalized patients with Acute Exacerbation of COPD (AECOPD).

Method And Patients: A multicenter randomized controlled trial across five respiratory wards in the Capital Region of Denmark.

How nurses use National Early Warning Score and Individual Early Warning Score to support their patient risk assessment practice: A fieldwork study.

Aim: To explore and describe how the National Early Warning Score (NEWS) and Individual Early Warning Score (I-EWS) are used and how they support nurses' patient risk assessment practice.

Design: A qualitative observational fieldwork study drawing on ethnographical principles was performed in six hospitals in two regions of Denmark in 2019.

Methods: Data were generated from participant observations and informal interviews with 32 nurses across 15 different wards in the hospitals.

Patients' Perspective on Automated Oxygen Administration during Hospitalization for Acute Exacerbation of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: A Qualitative Study Nested in a Randomized Controlled Trial.

Recently, health technology systems offering monitoring of the peripheral oxygen saturation level and automated oxygen administration (AOA) have emerged. AOA has been shown to reduce duration of hypoxemia and the length of hospital stay, but the patients' perspective on AOA has not been investigated. This qualitative study, based on the interpretive description methodology, aimed to explore how patients hospitalized with exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) experience being treated with AOA.

A qualitative study of the experiences of relatives to brought in dead persons in an emergency department.

Aims: The aim was to explore the experiences of relatives seeing and saying goodbye to brought in dead persons in a Danish emergency department.

Design: This was a qualitative study based on interpretive description methodology.

Methods: Data were collected through semi-structured individual interviews with relatives (n = 11) of brought in dead persons and 30 h of participatory observations of these relatives visiting the emergency department to see and say goodbye to the deceased.

Patients' experiences of being treated for acute illness at home as an alternative to hospital admission: a qualitative study in Denmark.

Objective: We aimed to investigate the experiences of Danish patients treated at home for an acute illness instead of being hospitalised.

Design: This study had a qualitative design inspired by the methodology of interpretive description. Data were collected through semistructured interviews.

A qualitative study portraying nurses' perspectives on transitional care between intensive care units and hospitals wards.

Introduction: The transition process from the intensive care unit (ICU) to hospital ward may impact the illness trajectory and compromise the continuity of safe care for ICU survivors. ICU and ward nurses are involved with the transition and are responsible for the quality of the transitional care.

Aim: The aim was to explore ICU and ward nurses' views on assignments in relation to patients' transition between ICU and hospital ward.

Efficacy of the TMPRSS2 inhibitor camostat mesilate in patients hospitalized with Covid-19-a double-blind randomized controlled trial.

Background: The trans-membrane protease serine 2 (TMPRSS2) is essential for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) cell entry and infection. Efficacy and safety of TMPRSS2 inhibitors in patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) have not been evaluated in randomized trials.

Methods: We conducted an investigator-initiated, double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled multicenter trial in patients hospitalized with confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection from April 4, to December 31, 2020.

Patient Characteristics of Persons Dead on Arrival Received in a Danish Emergency Department: A Retrospective Review of Health Records.

Introduction: In addition to treating living patients, emergency nurses are also responsible for receiving and caring for persons who are dead on arrival and their relatives. There is limited knowledge about the dead on arrival patient and family population as well as care practice for the dead and their relatives. The first step in improving care for dead on arrival persons is to know the size and characteristics of the population.

Nurses' Experiences and Perceptions of two Early Warning Score systems to Identify Patient Deterioration-A Focus Group Study.

Aims: To explore Registered Nurses' experiences and perceptions with National Early Warning Score and Individual Early Warning Score to identify patient deterioration.

Design: A qualitative exploratory design.

Methods: Six focus groups were conducted at six Danish hospitals from February to June 2019.

How to care for the brought in dead and their relatives. A qualitative study protocol based on interpretive description.

Aim: This project has two aims: (a) What do relatives to brought in dead (BID) describe as helpful and supportive care when they arrive at the emergency department to see and say goodbye to a deceased? (b) What do nurses describe as good nursing practice for BID persons and their relatives and what may hinder or facilitate this practice in an emergency setting?

Design: A qualitative study in the methodology interpretive description.

Methods: Data will be collected through three data sources: Individual interviews with relatives to BID persons, participant observations of relatives to BID persons during their presence in the emergency department and focus group interviews with emergency nurses.

Discussion: Brought in dead persons and their relatives are received and cared for in emergency departments by emergency nurses.

Patient and spouses experiences with transition from intensive care unit to hospital ward - qualitative study.

Background And Purpose Of Study: Transition from the intensive care unit to the hospital ward can be considered as a vulnerable period for patients as nursing care changes hands. How the transition is experienced by the ICU patient and the family is influenced by how it is organised, communicated and executed. The transition may positively or negatively affect patient recovery.

First year experiences with a palliative out-patients structure for patients with COPD: a qualitative study of health professionals' expectations and experiences.

Background: To improve the care of patients with advanced COPD and be able to address their palliative needs a new outpatient organization (CAPTAIN) was developed and implemented. CAPTAIN was inspired by best practice and existing guidelines and changed the traditional organization of an outpatient structure including the roles of nurses and doctors. Only sparse knowledge exists of the health professionals' expectations and experiences to organizational changes in an outpatient setting.

Is the high intensity symptoms experienced by patients admitted with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease documented by health professionals? - a prospective survey with comparison of patient reported outcomes and medical records.

: Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) have a high symptom burden and reduced quality of life. There is an increasing attention on palliation for patients with COPD. Recognition of symptoms is a prerequisite for palliation.

A new way of organising palliative care for patients with severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) often live with unmet palliative needs and low quality of life, although several guidelines recommend that those with COPD should be offered early and integrated palliative care. However, none of the guidelines describe how these recommendations can be operationalised and the current literature offers little information about experiences with developing and implementing new palliative care services. This article offers insight into the experience of developing and implementing a new palliative outpatient structure for patients with severe COPD.

Undefined and unpredictable responsibility: a focus group study of the experiences of informal caregiver spouses of patients with severe COPD.

Aims And Objectives: To explore how spouses of patients with severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease experience their role as informal caregiver.

Background: Informal caregiver spouses are of pivotal importance in the way that patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease cope with their daily life, including their opportunity to stay at home and avoid hospitalisations in the last stages of the disease. However, caregiving is associated with increased morbidity and mortality among caregivers.

Efficacy of a minimal home-based psychoeducative intervention versus usual care for managing anxiety and dyspnoea in patients with severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a randomised controlled trial protocol.

Introduction: In its final stages, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is a severely disabling condition that is characterised by dyspnoea, which causes substantial anxiety. Anxiety is associated with an impaired quality of life and increased hospital admissions. Untreated comorbid anxiety can have devastating consequences for both patients and their relatives.