Monitoring Chronic Non-Cancer Pain in Denmark Over Two Decades: Prevalence, Mental Health and Loneliness.

Background: Epidemiological surveys have monitored chronic non-cancer pain (CNCP) and investigated associated factors in Denmark for more than 20 years. This study aimed to analyse CNCP prevalence in the Danish population from 2000 to 2023 and its associations with mental health status and loneliness.

Methods: Population-based surveys were conducted between 2000 and 2023.

Aggressive end-of-life care in patients with gastrointestinal cancers - a nationwide study from Denmark.

Background: Knowledge of determinants of aggressive end-of-life care is crucial to organizing effective palliative care for patients with gastrointestinal (GI) cancer.

Purpose: This study aims to investigate the determinants of aggressive end-of-life care in patients with GI cancer.

Methods: A national register-based cohort study using data from the Danish Register on Causes of Death, the Danish National Patient Register, and the Danish Palliative Database was the method of study employed.

The patient experience of a nurse-written ICU-diary intervention: A cross sectional survey.

Background: A diary written for intensive care patients might help fill in memory gaps and promote psychological recovery. In Norway intensive care diaries are mainly authored by nurses and national recommendations ensure a systematic approach to the intervention. Studies describing the patient experience of nurse-written intensive care diaries are needed.

Palliative care case management in a surgical department for patients with gastrointestinal cancer-a register-based cohort study.

Background: The effectiveness of generalist palliative care interventions in hospitals is unknown.

Aim: This study aimed to explore the impact of a palliative care case management intervention for patients with gastrointestinal cancer (PalMaGiC) on hospital admissions, healthcare use, and place of death.

Design: This was a register-based cohort study analyzing data from the Danish Register on Causes of Death, the Danish National Patient Register, and the Danish Palliative Database.

Opioid use after surgical treatment in the Danish population-Protocol for a register-based cohort study.

Background: Over the past 25 years, global opioid consumption has increased. Denmark ranks fifth in opioid use globally, exceeding other Scandinavian countries. Postsurgical pain is a common reason for opioid prescriptions, but opioid use patterns after patient discharge from the hospital are unclear.

Associations between health-related quality of life and subsequent need for specialized palliative care and hospital utilization in patients with gastrointestinal cancer-a prospective single-center cohort study.

Background: We lack knowledge of which factors are associated with the risk of developing complex palliative care needs. The aim of this study was to investigate the associations between patient-reported health-related quality of life and subsequent referral to specialized palliative care (SPC) and hospital utilization.

Methods: This was a prospective single-center cohort study.

The parent perspective on paediatric delirium and an associated care bundle: A qualitative study.

Aims: To explore how parents experienced their child with delirium and how parents viewed our delirium management bundle.

Design: We conducted a qualitative exploratory descriptive study using semi-structured individual or dyad interviews.

Methods: Twelve semi-structured interviews with 16 parents of 12 critically ill children diagnosed with delirium in a paediatric intensive care unit were conducted from October 2022 to January 2023 and analysed through a reflexive thematic analysis.

Qualitative evaluation of a palliative care case management intervention for patients with incurable gastrointestinal cancer (PalMaGiC) in a hospital department.

Purpose: Generalist palliative care in hospital departments largely lacks an overall structure to fully manage the symptom burden and support needs of patients with incurable gastrointestinal cancer. Palliative care case management interventions show promising results in reducing healthcare use and enhancing quality of life. Less is known about these interventions and their potential to improve the quality of generalist palliative care in hospital departments.

Patient and public involvement in Nordic healthcare research: a scoping review of contemporary practice.

Background: Over the past decades, there has been a growing international interest in user involvement in healthcare research. However, evidence on the management and impact of patient and public involvement in Nordic healthcare research remains limited.

Objective: The aim was to explore and delineate the current state, practice, and impact of patient and public involvement in healthcare research across different areas of healthcare and patient populations in the Nordic countries.

Prospective validation of Sophia observation withdrawal symptoms: A paediatric delirium scale in critically ill children in Denmark.

Background: Paediatric delirium (PD) is increasingly recognised as a common disorder in critically ill children with a reported prevalence ranging from 9% to 66%. We validated the PD component of the Sophia Observation withdrawal Symptoms-Paediatric Delirium (SOS-PD) scale in a Danish setting to provide increased awareness and reliable identification of this critical condition, thereby paving the way for improved pathways to targeted delirium care.

Objective: The objectives of this study were to criterion validate the PD component of the SOS-PD screening tool by comparing blinded psychiatric and nurse assessments and to estimate the prevalence of delirium in critically ill children in a Danish context.

Family presence during resuscitation.

Background: Patients and their relatives often expect to be actively involved in decisions of treatment. Even during resuscitation and acute medical care, patients may want to have their relatives nearby, and relatives may want to be present if offered the possibility. The principle of family presence during resuscitation (FPDR) is a triangular relationship where the intervention of family presence affects the healthcare professionals, the relatives present, and the care of the patient involved.

Finding the right words: A focus group investigation of nurses' experiences of writing diaries for intensive care patients with a poor prognosis.

Background: The overall purpose of diaries written during an intensive care stay is to help patients fill in memory gaps from the illness trajectory, which might promote long-term psychological recovery. Diaries have also been shown to benefit nurses in maintaining a view of the patient as a person in the highly technical environment and to promote reflection. There is a lack of research on how nurses might be affected by writing a diary for critically ill patients with a poor prognosis.

A qualitative study of the experiences of relatives to brought in dead persons in an emergency department.

Aims: The aim was to explore the experiences of relatives seeing and saying goodbye to brought in dead persons in a Danish emergency department.

Design: This was a qualitative study based on interpretive description methodology.

Methods: Data were collected through semi-structured individual interviews with relatives (n = 11) of brought in dead persons and 30 h of participatory observations of these relatives visiting the emergency department to see and say goodbye to the deceased.

Development of a non-pharmacologic delirium management bundle in paediatric intensive care units.

Background: Non-pharmacologic interventions might be effective to reduce the incidence of delirium in pediatric intensive care units (PICU).

Aim: To explore expert opinions and generate informed consensus decisions regarding the content of a non-pharmacologic delirium bundle to manage delirium in PICU patients.

Study Design: A two-round online Delphi study was conducted from February to April 2021.

Clinical application of 'Sophia Observation withdrawal Symptoms-Paediatric Delirium' screening tool in Danish version: A feasibility study.

Aims And Objectives: The aims of the present study were investigating the feasibility of: (1) using the Danish version of Sophia Observation withdrawal Symptoms-Paediatric Delirium (SOS-PD) screening tool in clinical practice and (2) comparing SOS-PD performance to a child psychiatrist's assessment using the diagnostic criteria as a reference standard.

Background: Critically ill children risk developing delirium potentially causing discomfort and suffering. Intensive care delirium has a fluctuating course complicating detection.

Nurses' Perceptions of Patient Participation in the Postanesthesia Care Unit-A Qualitative Focus Group Study.

Purpose: To explore postanesthesia care unit (PACU) nurses' experiences and perception of patient participation during PACU care.

Design: Qualitative focus group study based on a phenomenological hermeneutic approach.

Methods: We conducted three focus group interviews with 18 nurses from three different PACUs.

Skills, competencies, and policies for advanced practice critical care nursing in Europe: A scoping review.

Objectives: Management of critically ill patients is changing due a rise in population age, comorbidity and complexity. To accommodate these changes, the demand is increasing for advanced practice nurses. More knowledge is needed regarding the role of advanced practice critical care nurses in European countries.

A qualitative study portraying nurses' perspectives on transitional care between intensive care units and hospitals wards.

Introduction: The transition process from the intensive care unit (ICU) to hospital ward may impact the illness trajectory and compromise the continuity of safe care for ICU survivors. ICU and ward nurses are involved with the transition and are responsible for the quality of the transitional care.

Aim: The aim was to explore ICU and ward nurses' views on assignments in relation to patients' transition between ICU and hospital ward.

Patient Characteristics of Persons Dead on Arrival Received in a Danish Emergency Department: A Retrospective Review of Health Records.

Introduction: In addition to treating living patients, emergency nurses are also responsible for receiving and caring for persons who are dead on arrival and their relatives. There is limited knowledge about the dead on arrival patient and family population as well as care practice for the dead and their relatives. The first step in improving care for dead on arrival persons is to know the size and characteristics of the population.

How to care for the brought in dead and their relatives. A qualitative study protocol based on interpretive description.

Aim: This project has two aims: (a) What do relatives to brought in dead (BID) describe as helpful and supportive care when they arrive at the emergency department to see and say goodbye to a deceased? (b) What do nurses describe as good nursing practice for BID persons and their relatives and what may hinder or facilitate this practice in an emergency setting?

Design: A qualitative study in the methodology interpretive description.

Methods: Data will be collected through three data sources: Individual interviews with relatives to BID persons, participant observations of relatives to BID persons during their presence in the emergency department and focus group interviews with emergency nurses.

Discussion: Brought in dead persons and their relatives are received and cared for in emergency departments by emergency nurses.

From bystander to enlisted carer - A qualitative study of the experiences of caregivers of patients attending follow-up after curative treatment for cancers in the pancreas, duodenum and bile duct.

Purpose: Caregivers of patients with cancer play an important role throughout the treatment trajectory. This can be challenging and might infer health and psychosocial problems. This may especially be the case in caregivers of patients with cancers that carry a high risk of recurrence such as cancers of the pancreas, duodenum and bile duct.

Evidence characterising skills, competencies and policies in advanced practice critical care nursing in Europe: a scoping review protocol.

Introduction: The management of critically ill patients is challenged by increasing population age and prevalence of comorbid diseases. High-quality intensive care nursing practice is imperative to accommodate these issues. The roles of the nurse practitioner (NP) and the acute care NP have existed for decades in the USA, Canada and Australia but are still evolving in Europe.

Patient and spouses experiences with transition from intensive care unit to hospital ward - qualitative study.

Background And Purpose Of Study: Transition from the intensive care unit to the hospital ward can be considered as a vulnerable period for patients as nursing care changes hands. How the transition is experienced by the ICU patient and the family is influenced by how it is organised, communicated and executed. The transition may positively or negatively affect patient recovery.

Interventions for preventing intensive care unit delirium in adults.

Background: Delirium is defined as a disturbance in attention, awareness and cognition with reduced ability to direct, focus, sustain and shift attention, and reduced orientation to the environment. Critically ill patients in the intensive care unit (ICU) frequently develop ICU delirium. It can profoundly affect both them and their families because it is associated with increased mortality, longer duration of mechanical ventilation, longer hospital and ICU stay and long-term cognitive impairment.

First year experiences with a palliative out-patients structure for patients with COPD: a qualitative study of health professionals' expectations and experiences.

Background: To improve the care of patients with advanced COPD and be able to address their palliative needs a new outpatient organization (CAPTAIN) was developed and implemented. CAPTAIN was inspired by best practice and existing guidelines and changed the traditional organization of an outpatient structure including the roles of nurses and doctors. Only sparse knowledge exists of the health professionals' expectations and experiences to organizational changes in an outpatient setting.