Doktorsavhandlingar / Doctoral Theses - C7 (LIME): Recent submissions
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From in-situ simulation to beyond : improving paediatric trauma care
(Inst för lärande, informatik, management och etik / Dept of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, 2021-09-08)Background: In-situ-simulation (ISS) has been adopted across the globe as an educational tool to enhance the quality of care provided to severely injured children. As an intervention that trains individuals where they work, ... -
Enterprise within the enterprise : a study of management and performance in a public health care delivery organisation
(Inst för lärande, informatik, management och etik / Dept of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, 2021-06-01)Background: The challenges in healthcare are an everyday struggle for managers. Efficiency and responsiveness of public sector services have been of interest over the past decades. Different reforms have been launched. One ... -
Making use of patient-reported outcome measures in health care : the case of EQ-5D in the Swedish national quality registries
(Inst för lärande, informatik, management och etik / Dept of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, 2021-05-27)Introduction: Patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) have been widely used in clinical trials and research, for example to monitor the health of specific populations or to evaluate treatment effects. In the Swedish ... -
Studio DöBra : creating spaces for engaging with end-of-life issues and interacting across generations through community-based arts activities
(Inst för lärande, informatik, management och etik / Dept of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, 2021-05-18)Background: Studio DöBra was a community-based arts initiative about dying, death, and loss, involving children (9 years old) and older adults (most 80+) as participants. The goals were to support community engagement with ... -
Hips don't lie : the use of benchmarking and register data to assess the performance of orthopaedic care
(Inst för lärande, informatik, management och etik / Dept of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, 2021-05-05)Background: Today’s healthcare systems face challenges involving rising need and demand for healthcare as well as concerns about cost containment, misuse of medical services and unwarranted variations in medical practices. ... -
Dying to talk : methods and tools for conversations about dying, death and advance end-of-life care planning
(Inst för lärande, informatik, management och etik / Dept of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, 2021-04-15)Introduction: Advance care planning has been described as a process of reflection and discussion about values and preferences for future end-of-life care. In Sweden, advance care planning is rarely systematically practiced ... -
From patient to person : perspectives on the role of quality data, patient experience and patient involvement in the improvement of chronic care
(Inst för lärande, informatik, management och etik / Dept of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, 2021-02-18)Introduction. Healthcare systems in many countries face numerous challenges including the increase in the number of chronic health conditions, the expectations that significant advances in healthcare and technology imposes, ... -
The burden of back pain : evaluation of costs and health outcomes
(Inst för lärande, informatik, management och etik / Dept of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, 2020-11-27)Background: Back pain is a leading cause of disability in the world. Beyond the negative impact on people’s health and quality of life, back pain is associated with substantial costs both within and outside the health care ... -
Overlooking health acculturation : a grounded theory study illustrating the complexity of intercultural consultation in Swedish primary care
(Inst för lärande, informatik, management och etik / Dept of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, 2020-11-24)Background: Intercultural consultations are perceived as complex by physicians and when asked why, ‘cultural differences’ are often mentioned. With increasing patient diversity in primary care, because of increasing global ... -
Transforming medical competency into medical management capability : developing physician leaders by finding management in medicine
(Inst för lärande, informatik, management och etik / Dept of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, 2020-10-16)Background: Management thinking has made inroads into health care, but the relationship between medicine and management is often described as one of competing logics. Given a recognized need for bridging the two logics, ... -
Entrance to and advancement within the Swedish medical labour market for physicians with a medical degree from outside the European Union
(Inst för lärande, informatik, management och etik / Dept of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, 2020-10-01)Background: Many physicians who migrate wish to continue practicing medicine in their destination country. However, they may meet barriers and obstacles that prolong the process of entering and advancing within the destination ... -
Will diabetes care move closer to rural patients in China? Assessing the impact of an educational intervention for type 2 diabetes among patients and health care professionals in rural China
(Inst för lärande, informatik, management och etik / Dept of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, 2020-09-22)Aim: The overall aim of this PhD thesis was to increase knowledge on the feasibility and impact of an educational intervention to shift the management of type 2 diabetes mellitus from hospitals to primary health care ... -
Counting what counts : time-driven activity-based costing in health care
(Inst för lärande, informatik, management och etik / Dept of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, 2020-04-17)Introduction: Patients with multiple chronic conditions consume over 40% of health care resources. The si- loed nature of the health care system exacerbates these costs, and integrated care solutions are required to ... -
Pharmacoepidemiology and health economics of adherence to pharmaceutical fracture prevention
(Inst för lärande, informatik, management och etik / Dept of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, 2020-04-06)Background: Osteoporosis is a disease characterized by weak bone, affecting hundreds of millions of people worldwide, predominantly postmenopausal women. The main clinical consequence of the disease is bone fractures and ... -
External collaborations in multinational pharmaceutical companies
(Inst för lärande, informatik, management och etik / Dept of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, 2020-03-26)Traditionally, the internal research and development (R&D) departments of multinational companies (MNCs) have served as a main driver of MNCs innovative capacity. Today’s high pace of change and competitive landscape have ... -
Exploring the impact of virtual patient design : medical students' small group learning around medical error
(Inst för lärande, informatik, management och etik / Dept of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, 2020-02-27)Background: The demands on medical and healthcare practitioners are continuously changing, with new technologies, treatments and regulatory guidelines emerging each year. One such example is increased focus on the impact ... -
Healthcare financing challenges and opportunities to achieving universal health coverage in the low- and middle-income country context
(Inst för lärande, informatik, management och etik / Dept of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, 2020-02-05)Background: In Bangladesh, on an average 62% of total healthcare spending was borne by households through out-of-pocket (OOP) payments annually during 2000- 2015. Because of such high OOP payments, a sizeable proportion ... -
Clinical decision support in emergency medicine : exploring the prerequisites
(Inst för lärande, informatik, management och etik / Dept of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, 2019-10-18)A clinical decision support system is a technical system that combines individual patient data and evidence-based clinical knowledge to give advice and support to clinicians. For quite a long time, the emergence of such ... -
Tobacco cessation on prescription : a primary healthcare intervention targeting socioeconomically disadvantaged areas in Stockholm
(Inst för lärande, informatik, management och etik / Dept of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, 2019-10-04)Background: In Sweden, the prevalence of tobacco use is higher among socioeconomically disadvantaged groups. Primary healthcare (PHC) has the main responsibility for tobacco cessation treatment in the Swedish healthcare ... -
Make it happen and make it matter : implementation and impact of primary healthcare-academia partnerships
(Inst för lärande, informatik, management och etik / Dept of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, 2019-09-26)Introduction: Most patients’ health problems are initially managed within primary healthcare. Increasingly, current reforms in healthcare emphasize the important role of primary healthcare in the healthcare system. Therefore, ...