Publications by authors named "Susanne W Olsen"
Article Synopsis
- The study aimed to understand what patients prioritize on the day of their surgery and to showcase the effectiveness of a flash mob research method in a perioperative context.
- Conducted in Danish surgical units, the study involved adult patients who shared their concerns about safety, information, and care, with many feeling their needs were overlooked by staff.
- The findings highlighted the importance of proactive communication from healthcare professionals to better address patient needs and improve the surgical experience.
Purpose: To examine whether patient involvement using a Patient Decision Aid has a positive effect on pain levels, by giving them an active role in choosing a pain schedule for postoperative pain assessment and pain management.
Design: A nonmatched case-control study.
Methods: 101 adults 18 years or older were included to choose between 1 of 3 possible schedules for postoperative pain management.
Purpose: To investigate whether nonpharmacologic distraction as a supplement to conventional pain management can reduce children's assessment of pain in the postanesthesia care unit (PACU), and if parental assessment is a reliable proxy in assessing children's postoperative pain.
Design: A nonmatched case-control study.
Methods: The sample included 241 children aged 2 to 7 years assigned to one of five intervention groups or a control group.
Purpose: To investigate physicians' and nurses' attitudes and actions related to the prescription and administration of perioperative antibiotics and opioids during a 2-week period.
Design: A quantitative descriptive and analytical research design performed at a Danish University Hospital.
Methods: An email survey using an 18-item questionnaire was sent to 163 nurses and physicians involved in the perioperative period.
Postanesthesia nursing should be documented with high quality. The purpose of this retrospective case-based study on 49 patients was to analyze the quality of postoperative documentation in the two existing templates and, based on this audit, to suggest a new template for documentation. The audit on the template with quantitative data showed satisfactory documentation of postoperative care nursing in 67% (18% to 92%; mean [min-max]) of the scores.
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