Sökning: "patient outcome assessment"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 272 avhandlingar innehållade orden patient outcome assessment.
1. Patient safety and suicide : learning in theory and practice from investigations of suicide as patient harm
Sammanfattning : Suicide is a global public health challenge, around 700 000 people die from suicide every year. A large proportion was in contact with healthcare close in time before death, suggesting healthcare to be an important resource in the work with prevention of suicide. LÄS MER
2. Outcome Assessment in Lumbar Spine Surgery
Sammanfattning : No consensus regarding outcomes assessment in spine patients exists. Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQoL) questionnaires are increasingly used. The objective of this thesis was the evaluation of HRQoL measures before and after lumbar spine surgery, and their relation to other evaluation parameters as well as relevance of differences. LÄS MER
3. Decision Support for Treatment of Patients with Advanced Parkinson’s Disease
Sammanfattning : The overall aim of this thesis was to develop, deploy and evaluate new IT-based methods for supporting treatment and assessment of treatment of advanced Parkinson’s disease. In this condition a number of different motor and non-motor symptoms occur in episodes of varying frequency, duration and severity. LÄS MER
4. The sensational hand. Clinical assessment after nerve repair
Sammanfattning : Following the transection and repair of major nerve trunks in the forearm, the functional outcome is influenced by mechanisms in the peripheral, as well as in the central nervous system. In the present thesis the interest is focused on assessment of the outcome after nerve repair, central nervous factors influencing the outcome, and sense substitution to compensate for sensory loss. LÄS MER
5. Measurement of outcome in lumbar spine surgery : Validity and interpretability of frequently used outcome measures in the Swespine register
Sammanfattning : BACKGROUND. The purpose of elective lumbar spine surgery is mainly to reduce pain and to improve physical function and quality of life. The quality and results of the interventions are monitored in the Swedish spine register, Swespine. LÄS MER