Search for dissertations about: "PATIENT"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 4960 swedish dissertations containing the word PATIENT.
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1. Patient Patients? : Achieving Patient Empowerment through active participation, increased knowledge and organisation
Abstract : This study examines patient empowerment in two local diabetes branch organisations in Sweden. In particular, the study focuses on the organisations’ membership, participation and influence on external actors. READ MORE
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2. Collective Patient Participation : Patient Voice and Civil Society Organizations in Healthcare
Abstract : The importance of engaging patients in the development of healthcare services and policy has received increasing attention over the last decades. However, this attention has mainly been directed towards various forms of involvement of individual patients. READ MORE
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3. Patient participation : what it is and what it is not
Abstract : In general, patient participation is regarded as being informed and partaking in decision making regarding one’s care and treatment. This interpretation is common in legislation throughout the Western world and corresponding documents guiding health care professionals, as well as in scientific studies. READ MORE
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4. Non-conveyance within the Swedish ambulance service : A prehospital patient safety study
Abstract : BackgroundThere is an increasing demand for ambulance services and more patients than before are requesting ambulance assistance for low acuity conditions. Ambulance services non-convey patients because they lack acute care needs. READ MORE
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5. Patient safety and suicide : learning in theory and practice from investigations of suicide as patient harm
Abstract : Suicide is a global public health challenge, around 700 000 people die from suicide every year. A large proportion was in contact with healthcare close in time before death, suggesting healthcare to be an important resource in the work with prevention of suicide. READ MORE