Publications by authors named "L Bech"
Background: Nursing students may experience clinical practice as unsafe due to the interactions with patients, fear of making mistakes, lack of clinical experience and supervision, which results in anxiety and stress. Thus, interventions to improve and organize the learning environment in clinical practice for nursing students are warranted, and the aim of this pilot-study was to evaluate a new concept of clinical practice in order to get insight on the different initiatives and gain knowledge for further developing.
Methods: The new concept consisted of nursing students being affiliated to the same department during their clinical practices, reflective supervision, and participation in a self-compassion course.
Background: Patients with acute hypoxemic respiratory failure in the intensive care unit (ICU) are treated with supplemental oxygen, but the benefits and harms of different oxygenation targets are unclear. We hypothesized that using a lower target for partial pressure of arterial oxygen (Pao) would result in lower mortality than using a higher target.
Methods: In this multicenter trial, we randomly assigned 2928 adult patients who had recently been admitted to the ICU (≤12 hours before randomization) and who were receiving at least 10 liters of oxygen per minute in an open system or had a fraction of inspired oxygen of at least 0.
Background: Frailty is associated with increased morbidity and mortality and frail patients may have reduced ability to tolerate severe vital sign derangement such as estimated by a high National Early Warning Score (NEWS). The clinical impact of frailty among patients that develop high NEWS during hospital admissions is sparsely studied. The aim of this study was to investigate the association between clinical frailty and admission to intensive care unit (ICU) among these patients.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAims And Objectives: To explore the perspectives of hardly reached people with type 2 diabetes on social support for diabetes management from their formal and informal networks.
Background: People with low socioeconomic status and poorly controlled type 2 diabetes may be categorised as hardly reached. Social support is increasingly perceived to be a cornerstone in the management of type 2 diabetes.
Objectives: In utero exposure to antiepileptic drugs has previously been associated with adverse outcome among offspring, but evidence on longer term milestone development remains limited. We investigated the association between in utero exposure to antiepileptic drugs and learning disabilities in the first year of compulsory education among offspring and assessed which antiepileptic drugs carried the highest risk.
Methods: This population-based case-cohort study used Danish nationwide register data from 2005 to 2008.