COVID-19 pandemic waves: Identification and interpretation of global data.

The mention of the COVID-19 waves is as prevalent as the pandemic itself. Identifying the beginning and end of the wave is critical to evaluating the impact of various COVID-19 variants and the different pharmaceutical and non-pharmaceutical (including economic, health and social, etc.) interventions.

The statistical evidence missing from the Swedish decision-making of COVID-19 strategy during the early period: A longitudinal observational analysis.

A controversy about the Swedish strategy of dealing with COVID-19 during the early period is how decision-making was based on evidence, which refers to data and data analysis. During the earliest period of the pandemic, the Swedish decision-making was based on subjective perspective. However, when more data became available, the decision-making stood on mathematical and descriptive analyses.

The Swedish Safety Attitudes Questionnaire-Operating Room Version: Psychometric Properties in the Surgical Team.

Purpose: To validate the Swedish Safety Attitudes Questionnaire-operating room (SAQ-OR) version by re-evaluating its psychometric properties for the surgical team.

Design: Cross-sectional questionnaire study.

Methods: 541 surgical team members including perioperative nurses, physicians, and licensed practical nurses at three Swedish hospitals were included.

Psychometric Validation of the Perceived Perioperative Competence Scale-Revised in the Swedish Context.

Purpose: To psychometrically test the Perceived Perioperative Competence Scale-Revised (PPCS-R) in the Swedish context.

Design: Cross-sectional survey.

Methods: The 40-item PPCS-R was translated into Swedish using a forward-translation approach.

Psychometric analysis of the Swedish version of the General Medical Council's multi source feedback questionnaires.

Objectives: To determine the internal consistency and the underlying components of our translated and adapted Swedish version of the General Medical Council's multisource feedback questionnaires (GMC questionnaires) for physicians and to confirm which aspects of good medical practice the latent variable structure reflected.

Methods: From October 2015 to March 2016, residents in family medicine in Sweden were invited to participate in the study and to use the Swedish version to perform self-evaluations and acquire feedback from both their patients and colleagues. The validation focused on internal consistency and construct validity.

Swedish translation and psychometric testing of the safety attitudes questionnaire (operating room version).

Background: Tens of millions of patients worldwide suffer from avoidable disabling injuries and death every year. Measuring the safety climate in health care is an important step in improving patient safety. The most commonly used instrument to measure safety climate is the Safety Attitudes Questionnaire (SAQ).