Publications by authors named "K Steen Carlsson"

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  • Burn mass casualty events are rare but heavily tax healthcare systems, especially burn units.
  • The study assessed the resource needs during the first two weeks after such an event, simulating eight patients and comparing them to historical cases.
  • Findings indicated that each patient requires about eight staff members daily and significant quantities of consumables, highlighting the importance of disaster preparedness and resource management.
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Background: Effective management of crises is a major challenge for healthcare organisations and their managers. Research suggests that to respond to evolving and unpredictable crises, such as the Covid-19 pandemic, an organisation needs the capability to continually adapt to the changing situation using relevant knowledge. However, there are few empirical studies using an organisational resilience perspective to understand how a health system responds to this type of crisis.

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Background: The Safewards model aims to reduce conflict and use of containment on psychiatric wards. To evaluate the implementation of Safewards and understand why it is effective in some settings but not in others, it is important to assess the level of implementation fidelity. To do this, the Safewards Fidelity Checklist (SFC) is often used, which focuses on objective visual observations of interventions but does not include patient responsiveness.

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  • * Using Swedish health data from 2006 to 2019, researchers found that 24% of BC patients and 23% of RCC patients had diabetes, and noted a correlation between cancer and poor glycemic control.
  • * The study revealed that cancer patients transitioned earlier to insulin treatment compared to diabetes-only patients, and those on systemic corticosteroids were more likely to experience malglycemia, indicating a need for better management strategies.
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