[Lower Limb Amputations in Patients with Peripheral Arterial Disease and/or Diabetes in Iceland 2010-2019; revascularisation, comorbidities and risk factors].

Introduction: No recent studies exist on lower extremity amputations (LLAs) in Iceland. The aim of this study was to investigate LLA incidence in Iceland 2010-2019 and preceding procedures in amputations induced by peripheral arterial disease (PAD) and diabetes mellitus (DM).

Material And Methods: Retrospective study on clinical records of all patients (>18 years) who underwent LLA in Iceland's two main hospitals during 2010-2019.

Ethical Dilemmas in Physicians' Consultations with COPD Patients.

Aim: This phenomenological study was aimed at exploring principal physicians' (participants') experience of attending to COPD patients and motivating their self-management, in light of the GOLD clinical guidelines of COPD therapy.

Methods: Interviews were conducted with nine physicians, who had referred patients to PR, five general practitioners (GPs) and four lung specialists (LSs). The interviews were recorded, transcribed, and analyzed through a process of deconstruction and reconstruction.

Frustrated Caring: Family Members' Experience of Motivating COPD Patients Towards Self-Management.

Aim: The aim of this phenomenological study was to explore principal family members' experience of motivating patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) towards self-management.

Methods: Interviews were conducted with 10 family members (spouses and adult children) of COPD patients. The interviews were audio recorded, transcribed and analyzed thematically.

A Digital Lifestyle Program in Outpatient Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes: A Randomized Controlled Study.

Background: Lifestyle is important in type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). This study's aim was to investigate whether a healthy-lifestyle-supporting smartphone application could affect treatment outcomes at an endocrinology outpatient clinic.

Methods: Consecutively invited patients were randomly assigned to an intervention or control group after age and gender stratification.

Recovery of patients with severe depression in inpatient rural psychiatry: a descriptive clinical study.

The aim of this study was to investigate the level of and the relationship between symptoms and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) at admittance and recovery at discharge in patients with severe depression, in a rural inpatient psychiatric setting. Furthermore, whether the anxiety level at admission and/or, if the extent of patients' perception of family support from professionals were related to recovery. Patients admitted with depression were consecutively invited to participate during a 12-month period.