Search for dissertations about: "patient-safe"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 swedish dissertations containing the word patient-safe.

  1. 1. 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

  2. 2. Communication over language barriers in paediatric oncology care : a prerequisite for equity in care

    Author : Johanna Granhagen Jungner; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
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    Abstract : Background: Out of Sweden's more than two million children under the age of eighteen, 23% have a foreign background, which means that every fourth child has a foreign background. We know that migration and the mixed population are reflected in all healthcare settings nationwide and are naturally also reflected in paediatric oncology care. READ MORE

  3. 3. Monitoring calls in telephone advice nursing : parents' and telenurses' experiences

    Author : Susanna Sandelius; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
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    Abstract : Background: Approximately 2 million of the 4.5 million calls made in 2016 to the 1177 healthcare advice line resulted in the telenurse providing self-care advice to the care seeker. In some of these calls, the care seekers were offered the possibility of receiving a monitoring call. In 2016, 275,000 monitoring calls were registered. READ MORE

  4. 4. Privacy and Security Analysis : Assessing Risks and Harm to Patients

    Author : Samuel Wairimu; Stefan Lindskog; Lothar Fritsch; Rose-Mharie Åhlfeldt; Karlstads universitet; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Privacy; Security; e-Health; Risks; Harms; Personlig integritet; Informationss ̈akerhet; e-h ̈alsa; Risker; Skador; Computer Science; Datavetenskap;

    Abstract : Disruptive technologies in the form of e-Health or electronic healthcare (the use of information technology in health) have the ability to provide positive implications to both patients and healthcare professionals. Recently, public health agencies deployed contact tracing apps with the aim of curbing the spread of COVID-19, by aiding manual contact tracing, and lifting restrictions. READ MORE

  5. 5. Central venous catheterisation - clinical studies on mechanical complications in the ultrasound-guided era

    Author : Maria Adrian; Anestesiologi och intensivvård; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; central venous catheterisation; ultrasound; mechanical complication; subclavian vein; Internal jugular vein; femoral vein; guidewire;

    Abstract : Central venous catheterisation is one of the most common invasive procedures performed on patients in secondary care. Unfortunately the catheterisation procedure is associated with mechanical complications that both can be life-threatening and may force postponement of life-saving treatments such as surgery and chemotherapy. READ MORE