Healthcare systems around the world are facing significant challenges because higher costs and an increase in demand for care has not been matched by a corresponding growth in the health workforce. Wi...
GPs were recruited through Nivel's GPs network on eHealth and innovation, located in the Netherlands. One exploratory focus group and 12 in-depth interviews were conducted. Interview transcripts were ...
According to the participants, some diagnostic and follow-up care could be relocated from hospitals to GPs once certain prerequisites are fulfilled. An important condition of relocating care from the ...
Care should first be relocated from the GP to other settings before attempting to organize the relocation of care from the hospital to the GP. When this, and other conditions are met, some diagnostic ...
The growing concern about a dwindling healthcare workforce, exacerbated by demographic changes, calls for innovative solutions. One viable approach involves implementing new professional roles and res...
To evaluate the implementation of an innovative task-shifting concept, care-related services (CRS), from the managers' perspective in somatic care units across the hospitals in a region in Sweden....
The qualitative study was conducted in 2022, after the implementation of CRS. Individual interviews were conducted with 24 key stakeholders, including 14 care unit managers, six CRS managers, and four...
The implementation of CRS involved collaboration between care unit managers, CRS managers, and project managers, alongside CRS staff, registered nurses (RNs), and licensed vocational nurses (LVNs). In...
Our findings highlight the crucial role of clear communication, effective recruitment, integration of CRS staff, clarification of roles, responsibilities, and defined goals for successful CRS implemen...
Anxiety in pregnancy and postpartum is highly prevalent but under-recognised. To identify perinatal anxiety, assessment tools must be acceptable, relevant, and easy to use for women in the perinatal p...
To determine the acceptability and ease of use of anxiety measures to pregnant or postpartum women (n = 41) we examined five versions of four measures: the Generalised Anxiety Disorder scale (GAD) 2-i...
All measures were acceptable. Some items were deemed less relevant to the perinatal period e.g., difficulties sleeping. Ease of comprehension, judgement, retrieval and responding varied, with all meas...
Findings can be used to inform clinical guidelines and research on acceptable anxiety assessment in pregnancy and after birth....
How do people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (PALS) deal with their diagnosis and engage in end-of-life decision-making? What informational or supportive needs do they have for counselling about l...
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is playing a major role in medical education, diagnosis, and outbreak detection through Natural Language Processing (NLP), machine learning models and deep learning tools....
Stay interviews can strengthen employee engagement and increase retention. This quality improvement project aimed to determine nurses' motivations for staying on their current unit by conducting peer-...
The aim of this study was to explore and understand the leadership experiences of medical consultants prior to a major hospital move. Health and care is becoming increasingly complex and there is no g...
A qualitative methodology was utilized with one-to-one semi-structured interviews conducted with ten medical consultants. These were transcribed verbatim and analyzed using inductive thematic analysis...
Four themes were found to influence medical consultants' experience of leadership: collaboration, patient centredness, governance and knowledge mobilization. Various factors were identified that negat...
This study provides a rich exploration of medical consultants' experience of collective leadership prior to a transition to a new hospital and provides new understandings of the way collective leaders...
The findings suggest that there are a number of factors that influence complexity leadership effectiveness. Addressing these areas may enhance leadership effectiveness and the experience of leadership...
Clinical leadership is associated with better outcomes for patients therefore any interventions that enhance leadership capability will improve outcomes for patients and therefore benefit society....
This is the first research to explore medical consultants' experience of collective leadership prior to a transition to a new hospital....
Pectus excavatum, or funnel chest, causes both physical and psychosocial issues, affecting health-related quality of life. However, the literature on how funnel chest affects daily living prior to cor...
The study had a qualitative exploratory design. Consecutive sampling was applied in which all individuals from a single cardiothoracic department scheduled for the minimally invasive repair of pectus ...
The overall theme "To have or not to have a cavity in my chest, it could make a difference" was interpreted as the latent meaning of the participants' experiences. The theme included two subthemes wit...
The results emphasize the heavy burden funnel chest causes and the great limitations it places on the individual. It also highlights the importance of surgery and the hope for a better future for indi...
Wandering is a symptom of dementia that can have devastating consequences on the lives of persons living with dementia and their families and caregivers. Increasingly, caregivers are turning towards e...
Compassion is a crucial aspect in the management of pediatric oncology patients as it has the potential to enhance nurse satisfaction levels, thereby further enhancing the quality and safety of the ca...
This research utilized a qualitative descriptive design. Content analysis was used to make sense of data collected via individual and semi-structured interviews conducted with nurses (n = 32) working ...
Nurses' understanding of compassionate care for children with cancer was organized into two categories: Humanistic compassionate care and compassionate end-of-life care. The humanistic compassionate c...
Compassionate care for children with cancer is marked by a strong emphasis on humanistic, cultural, and end-of-life considerations. Our findings further emphasize the paramount importance of taking fa...
