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Acting between guidelines and reality- an interview study exploring the strategies of first line managers in patient safety work

BMC Health Services Research, 2021
Background Safety culture can be described and understood through its manifestations in the organization as artefacts, espoused values and basic underlying assumptions and is strongly related to leadership-yet it remains elusive as a concept. Even if the
Mats Hedsköld, Magna Andreen Sachs, Torleif Rosander, Mia von Knorring, Karin Pukk Härenstam   +4 more
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The development and validation of a scale to explore staff experience of governance of economic efficiency and quality (GOV-EQ) of health care

BMC Health Services Research, 2018
Background In publicly funded health care systems, governance models are developed to push public service providers to use tax payers’ money more efficiently and maintain a high quality of service.
Sara Korlén, Anne Richter, Isis Amer-Wåhlin, Peter Lindgren, Ulrica von Thiele Schwarz   +4 more
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“You have to know why you're doing this”: a mixed methods study of the benefits and burdens of self-tracking in Parkinson's disease

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 2019
Background This study explores opinions and experiences of people with Parkinson’s disease (PwP) in Sweden of using self-tracking. Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative condition entailing varied and changing symptoms and side effects that can ...
Sara Riggare, Therese Scott Duncan, Helena Hvitfeldt, Maria Hägglund   +3 more
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Improved Hydrolytic and Mechanical Stability of Sulfonated Aromatic Proton Exchange Membranes Reinforced by Electrospun PPSU Fibers

Membranes, 2022
The hydrolytic stability of ionomer membranes is a matter of concern for the long-term durability of energy storage and conversion devices. Various reinforcement strategies exist for the improvement of the performances of the overall membrane. We propose
Luca Pasquini, Maxime Sauvan, Riccardo Narducci, Emanuela Sgreccia, Philippe Knauth, Maria Luisa Di Vona   +5 more
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Parametric updates in parametric timed automata [PDF]

Logical Methods in Computer Science, 2021
We introduce a new class of Parametric Timed Automata (PTAs) where we allow clocks to be compared to parameters in guards, as in classic PTAs, but also to be updated to parameters.
Étienne André, Didier Lime, Mathias Ramparison   +2 more
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Potential living kidney donors’ positive experiences of an information letter from healthcare: a descriptive qualitative study

BMC Nephrology, 2022
Background Patients who need a live donor kidney transplant (LDKT) must often ask potential donors (PLDs) themselves. This is a difficult task and healthcare could unburden them by making this first contact, ensuring also that PLDs receive correct ...
Eva Lagging, Kjerstin Larsson, Jonas Wadström, Linda Gyllström Krekula, Annika Tibell   +4 more
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“Right to recommend, wrong to require”- an empirical and philosophical study of the views among physicians and the general public on smoking cessation as a condition for surgery

BMC Medical Ethics, 2018
Background In many countries, there are health care initiatives to make smokers give up smoking in the peri-operative setting. There is empirical evidence that this may improve some, but not all, operative outcomes.
Joar Björk, Niklas Juth, Niels Lynøe
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Unfolding alignment – How top management work to align demand and capacity: an ethnographic study of resilience in a Swedish healthcare region

BMC Health Services Research, 2023
Background Resilient healthcare organizations maintain critical functions and high-quality care under varying conditions. While previous research has focused on the activities of frontline healthcare professionals working at the “sharp end” of care, less
Ingrid Svensson, Mia von Knorring, Heidi Hagerman, Cecilia Fagerström, Mirjam Ekstedt, Lisa Smeds Alenius   +5 more
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Del diseño gráfico a la comunicación en el espacio expositivo

Eikón Imago, 2019
El diseño gráfico resulta tan cotidiano como inadvertido. De esta paradoja surge la necesidad de su actualización. Remitiéndose a su función más primigenia, la de comunicar, este artículo propone replantear el concepto desde la base con la intención de ...
Nerea Gil Muñoz de la Nava, Marina Suárez Fernández, Guadalupe Cerezuela Sáenz de Buruaga   +2 more
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Advancing Health Services Collaborative and Partnership Research; Comment on “Experience of Health Leadership in Partnering with University-Based Researchers in Canada – A Call to ‘Re-imagine’ Research” [PDF]

International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2021
Bowen et al highlight the trend towards partnership research to address the complex challenges currently facing healthcare systems and organizations world-wide.
Monica E. Nyström, Helena Strehlenert
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