Competence of healthcare professionals in stroke care pathways: a cross-sectional study.

Aims: To describe healthcare professionals' self-assessed competence in stroke care pathways based on their self-evaluation and identify the factors associated with competence.

Design: A cross-sectional, descriptive explorative study design was used.

Methods: The data were collected during May and September 2021 through a survey sent to healthcare professionals (N=1200, n=215) working in neurological care.

Health and social care managers' self-assessed competence in knowledge management: A descriptive cross-sectional study.

Aim: To describe health and social care managers' self-assessed competence in knowledge management and the factors associated with management competence.

Background: It has been shown that the performance of an organization is as good as the competence of its managers, so health and social care managers' competence in knowledge management should be assessed to improve organizational performance.

Desgin: A descriptive cross-sectional design.

Healthcare professionals' experience regarding competencies in specialized and primary stroke units: A qualitative study.

Aim: To describe healthcare professionals' experience of needed competence in patient stroke care within specialist and primary healthcare.

Background: Healthcare professionals who provide stroke care need multifaceted, multi-professional skills; ongoing training is important for competent stroke care.

Design: A descriptive qualitative study.

Frontline nurse leaders' competences in evidence-based healthcare: A scoping review.

Aim: To identify evidence on frontline nurse leaders' competences in evidence-based healthcare (EBHC) and the instruments measuring these competences.

Design: A scoping review.

Data Sources: The search was conducted in June 2021 and complemented in June 2022.

Health and social care managers' perceptions of factors affecting the competence of managers in knowledge management: A qualitative study.

Aim: To describe health and social care managers' perceptions of the factors affecting the competence of managers in knowledge management.

Design: A qualitative descriptive study.

Methods: A semi-structured interview was conducted with 15 managers from three public health and social care organizations in Finland.

Health care managers' competence in knowledge management: A scoping review.

Aim: To identify current evidence on health care managers' competence in knowledge management.

Background: Although successful knowledge management improves the quality of care and performance of health care organisations, there is limited evidence on health care managers' competence in knowledge management EVALUATION: A scoping review was conducted by including original published and unpublished studies (qualitative, quantitative, and experimental) and review designs in English, Finnish, or Swedish. The studies were retrieved from six databases (CINAHL, ProQuest, PubMed, Scopus, Mednar, and Finnish database Medic) in November 2020 and then complemented in January 2022.

Evidence-based healthcare competence of social and healthcare educators: A systematic review of mixed methods.

Background: Social and healthcare operating environments are constantly evolving, so educators have major responsibility for ensuring that Evidence-Based Healthcare is included in the education of future healthcare professionals and applied in their practice. A holistic understanding and implementation of evidence-based healthcare competence is critical to the delivery of appropriate, relevant, and effective healthcare.

Aim: To identify and describe social and healthcare educators' EBHC competence according to the five main components of the JBI model and associated factors to it.

Healthcare professionals' competence in stroke care pathways: A mixed-methods systematic review.

Background: The challenges of caring for stroke patients are growing due to population ageing and improved survival rates. Healthcare professionals' competence development in stroke care is a necessity to ensure high-quality patient care.

Objectives: To identify and describe the competence areas of healthcare professionals working in the stroke patient care pathway and factors influencing these competences.

Patient-Centered Development of a Digital Care Pathway for Arrhythmia Patients.

Citizens are ready and willing to use various kinds of e-health services and Web-based portals. The purpose of this study was to describe the experiences of patients who underwent an arrhythmia procedure of the guidance they received as well as their needs and expectations for a future digital care path. The goal for the future is to utilize the results in other patient-centered digital service development activities.

One-year prospective health-related quality-of-life outcomes in patients treated with conservative method, endovascular treatment or open surgery for symptomatic lower limb atherosclerotic disease.

Background: There are no many reports on the long-term impacts of different treatments of lower limb atherosclerotic disease (LLAD) on patients' health behaviour, clinical outcome and health-related quality of life (HRQoL).

Aims: The purpose of this study was to follow up the HRQoL of LLAD patients before and after the conservative, endovascular or surgical treatment.

Methods: Patients who were treated conservatively (64 patients), scheduled for endovascular treatment (85 patients), or for elective surgery (31 patients) filled in the Nottingham Health Profile (NHP) questionnaire before treatment and 12 months after.

Properties of the 15D and the Nottingham Health Profile questionnaires in patients with lower limb atherosclerotic disease.

Objectives: The aim of this study was to compare the generic health-related quality of life (HRQoL) instruments, the 15D and the Nottingham Health Profile (NHP), in terms of feasibility, cross-sectional construct validity, discriminatory power, and responsiveness to the change in patients with lower limb atherosclerosis disease (LLAD).

Methods: Patients who were treated conservatively (64 patients), scheduled for endovascular treatment (85 patients), or for elective surgery (31 patients) filled in the NHP and the 15D questionnaires before treatment and 12 months after. The methods of analysis included calculations of the completion rate, the multitrait-multimethod matrix, extreme group comparisons with the t-test, and calculations of "floor" and "ceiling" effects and effect sizes.

Rehabilitation and guidance as reported by women and men who had undergone coronary bypass surgery.

Aims And Objectives: The purpose of this study was to describe the experience of rehabilitation reported by coronary artery disease patients who had undergone coronary artery bypass surgery. A further purpose was to describe the kind of guidance on rehabilitation that they were given during this period.

Methods: The data consisted of thematic questionnaires completed by six women and eight men who had undergone coronary artery bypass surgery.

Lower limb atherosclerotic disease causes various deteriorations of patients' health-related quality of life.

Background: Lower limb atherosclerotic disease (LLAD) is a worldwide health problem. Approximately 100,000 Finns have LLAD. Currently, a large number of health-related quality of life (HRQoL) studies are available, but we still have scant comprehensive information of HRQoL of patients with LLAD.