Search for dissertations about: "Folke Sjöberg"
Showing result 16 - 20 of 27 swedish dissertations containing the words Folke Sjöberg.
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16. Risk-Adjustment for Swedish In-Hospital Trauma Mortality using International Classification of disease Injury Severity Score (ICISS) : issues with description and methods
Abstract : IntroductionDifferent methods have been used to describe the epidemiology of trauma with varying results. Crude mortality outcome data differ significantly from risk-adjusted information. A previous standard method for risk-adjustment in trauma was the Injury Severity Score (ISS), although it has several shortcomings. READ MORE
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17. Blood Flow Dynamics in Burns
Abstract : Objectives:Burns of intermediate thickness are hard to evaluate clinically. This often leads to unnecessary delays of up to 14 days before a surgical decision can be made. To counter this, several objective methods have been developed to determine the healing potential of the wound. READ MORE
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18. Patient-controlled sedation in procedural care
Abstract : The need for procedural sedation is extensive and on the increase in numbers of patients. Minor treatments or diagnostic procedures are being performed with inadequate sedation or even without any sedatives or analgesics. READ MORE
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19. Health related quality of life in adult former intensive care unit patients
Abstract : Background: Patients treated in an intensive care unit (ICU) are seriously ill, have a high co‐morbidity, morbidity and mortality. ICUs are resource – demanding as they consume significant hospital resources for a minority of patients. READ MORE
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20. Premature Discharge from Intensive Care with Special Reference to Night-Time Discharge and Capacity Transfers
Abstract : Objectives Intensive care is an expensive and limited resource, and when a demand supply mismatch between available beds and influx of patients occurs, one temporary measure is to discharge a patient to make room for the new admission. Sometimes the patient is discharged sooner from its original ICU than ideal; i.e. READ MORE