Search for dissertations about: "healthcare use"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 537 swedish dissertations containing the words healthcare use.

2. 1. Use or Misuse? : Addiction Care Practitioners’ Perceptions of Substance Use and Treatment

   Author : Eva Samuelsson; Jan Blomqvist; Lena Hübner; Lisa Wallander; Ingrid Sahlin; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; substance use; treatment; practitioners’ perceptions; social services; regional healthcare; factorial survey; multi-level analysis; focus group interviews; discourse analysis; Sweden; Social Work; socialt arbete;

   Abstract : The aim of this thesis has been to study boundary-making in addiction care practitioner’s perceptions of substance use and treatment. The four papers are based on three data collections in Swedish outpatient addiction care: a) a survey conducted in 2006 (n=655), b) a factorial survey using randomly constructed vignettes conducted in 2011 (n=474), and c) a focus group interview study from 2013 (n=30) with a sample of the respondents from the factorial survey. READ MORE

4. 2. The use of interpreter in healthcare : Perspectives of individuals, healthcare staff and families

   Author : Emina Hadziabdic; Aina Willman; Linnéuniversitetet; []
   Keywords : communication; healthare service; patient-safe quality care; qualitative data collection; qualitative data analysis; users perceptions experiences; utilization of interpreters; Vårdvetenskap; Caring Science;

   Abstract : This thesis focuses on the use of interpreters in Swedish healthcare. The overall aim was to explore how individuals, healthcare professionals and family members experience and perceive the use of interpreters in healthcare.The study design was explorative and descriptive. READ MORE

5. 3. Predictive Healthcare : Cervical Cancer Screening Risk Stratification and Genetic Disease Markers

   Author : Nicholas Baltzer; Jan Komorowski; Mark Jit; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Bioinformatics; Cervical Cancer; Screening; Computer Science; Algorithmics; Machine Learning; Genetics; SNPs; Rough Sets; Bioinformatics; Bioinformatik;

   Abstract : The use of Machine Learning is rapidly expanding into previously uncharted waters. In the medicine fields there are vast troves of data available from hospitals, biobanks and registries that now are being explored due to the tremendous advancement in computer science and its related hardware. READ MORE

6. 4. Exploring Paths of Justice in the Digital Healthcare : A Socio-Legal Study of Swedish Online Doctors

   Author : Peter Bergwall; Rättssociologiska institutionen; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; rättssociologi; ehealth; critical realism; distributive justice; ethical principles in healthcare; free choice; healthcare demands; healthcare law and ethics; healthcare need; Kry; latent variables; mHealth; Alan Norrie; online doctors; online survey; PLS path modelling; PLS-SEM; privacy calculus; procedural justice; retail health; SmartPLS; sociology of law; Swedish healthcare; telehealth; quasi-market;

   Abstract : Online doctor services, healthcare provided via smartphone apps, have gone from being peripheral to seriously challenging the conventional Swedish way of providing healthcare services. The accessibility of online doctors is unsurpassed but all patient groups have not gotten better access to healthcare thanks to online doctors. READ MORE

7. 5. Improving healthcare information systems : A key to evidence based medicine

   Author : Hanife Rexhepi; Rose-Mharie Åhlfeldt; Anne Persson; Karin Hedström; Högskolan i Skövde; []
   Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Process orientation; Knowledge management; Healthcare; Evidence based medicine; Information Systems; Informationssystem IS ;

   Abstract : Delivering good quality care is a complex endeavor that is highly dependent on patient information and medical knowledge. When decisions about the care of a patient are made, they must, as far as possible, be based on research-derived evidence rather than on clinical skills and experience alone. READ MORE