Sökning: "Practice Guidelines"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 348 avhandlingar innehållade orden Practice Guidelines.
1. Bring hypertension guidelines into play : guideline-based decision support system for drug treatment of hypertension and epidemiological aspects of hypertension guidelines
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2. Management of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and chronic heart disease in primary health care : Guidelines, patients and comorbidity
Sammanfattning : The overall aim of this compilation thesis was to explore different aspects of the management of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and heart disease in primary health care: guideline adherence in chronic heart failure (CHF) management (I); comparing patients with COPD and heart failure, and factors associated with the pa-tients’ exercise self-efficacy (II); and the influence of comorbid heart disease in COPD over time (III–IV).Materials and methods: Cross-sectional data from primary health care: 155 patients with heart failure (I) and 150 with COPD and/or heart failure (II). LÄS MER
3. Struggling for clarity : cultural context, gender and a concept of depression in general practice
Sammanfattning : Many depressed patients attend primary health care, and minority-group patients often see general practitioners for depressive symptoms. The diagnosis and classification criteria of depression and guidelines for management are based on symptoms. LÄS MER
4. Asthma nurse practice in primary health care : quality, costs and outcome
Sammanfattning : The primary aim of the present work was to document and analyse whether it is beneficial to patients and to the health care sector to organise asthma care in primary health care is the form of asthma nurse practices (ANPs). During the past decade ANPs have been established in primary health care in the county of Östergatland, Sweden. LÄS MER
5. Forgoing life-sustaining treatment in intensive care units. Practice, attitudes and ethics
Sammanfattning : Many deaths in intensive care units are preceded by decisions to withhold or withdraw life-sustaining treatment. Under what conditions are forgoing life-sustaining treatment considered appropiate, when is it optitional and when is it wrong? Relevant guidelines are essential to help medical decisionmakers, but they cannot be established only from medical knowledge. LÄS MER