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Intensive care patient diaries in Scandinavia: a comparative study of emergence and evolution Critical illness and intensive care therapy are often followed by psychological problems such as nightmares, hallucinations, delusions, anxiety, depression, and symptoms of posttraumatic stress. Intensive care patient diaries have been kept by nurses and the patients' family since the early 1990s in the S
Objectives: The aim of this study was to gain an increased understanding of the intensive care unit diary and how it affects patients’ recovery after intensive care. Methodology/design: The study had a qualitative design and was conducted by two focus group interviews in October 2021 and was analysed with thematic analysis. Setting: Ventilator treated intensive care patients with a length of stay
Background: Post-intensive care syndrome-family is a common problem in relatives of patients who die in an intensive care unit. Family-centred end-of-life care with support for the family during and after the death is supposed to prevent suffering and avoid illness. Aims and objectives: This study aimed to investigate family-centred end-of-life care and bereavement follow-up services offered to fa
Background: Relevance to clinical practice The findings from the study highlighting family involvement, high-quality communication and flexible visiting policy as central aspects of family care may inspire clinicians to identify aspects of everyday family care in their ICUs calling for further improvement. Aims and objectives: To describe family involvement, communication practices and visiting po
Purpose: To describe sleep assessment and strategies to promote sleep in adult ICUs in ten countries. Methods: Multicenter, self-administered survey sent to nurse managers. Results: Response rate was 66% with 522 ICUs providing data. ‘Lying quietly with closed eyes’ was the characteristic most frequently perceived as indicative of sleep by >60% of responding ICUs in all countries except Italy. Few
Objectives: To examine conditions and strategies to meet the challenges imposed by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)-related visiting restrictions in Scandinavian intensive care units. Research methodology/design: A cross-sectional survey. Setting: Adult intensive care units in Denmark, Norway and Sweden. Main outcome measures: Likert scale responses and free-text comments within six areas:
Background: The benefit of the ICU for older patients is often debated. There is little knowledge on subjective impressions of excessive care in ICU nurses and physicians combined with objective patient data in real-life cases. Research Question: Is there a difference in treatment limitation decisions and 1-year outcomes in patients < 75 and ≥ 75 years of age, with and without concordant perceptio
Ethiopian air pollution is understudied yet highly relevant considering population size and source abundance including solid fuel cooking, small scale waste burning and vehicle fleet. Low cost PM2.5 sensors can be used to mitigate this by mapping pollution exposure. We report on indoor and outdoor measurements with Sensirion sensors SPS30 and SEN55, the former extensively validated in literature,
A detailed restriction system for restaurants in Sweden was developed from 1850 to 1922. The original restriction framework was dismantled in 1955, but many of the restrictions remained in place. The paper, based on official documents and news articles, argues that the restrictions can be seen as a living culinary cultural heritage, which has implications for both the restaurant industry and the g
In communication and management research, coworker voice has been widely acknowledged as a central component for organizations’ long-term development and survival. With the increasing digitalization and need for flexibility, digital workplace meetings have become a common form of communication, demonstrating a new arena where coworker voice is expressed and shaped. Thus, the aim of this study is t
Universities and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are increasingly engaging in collaborations that translate academic knowledge into practical business applications, thereby contributing to innovation, competitiveness, and development. For SMEs, which often face resource and capability constraints, partnerships with universities can provide important support for business model innovation
This study develops an integrated decision-support framework for blockchain-enabled Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) compliance in global supply networks. Multinational enterprises face complex sustainability challenges due to fragmented supplier systems, inconsistent standards, and limited traceability. Blockchain technology offers transparency, immutability, and decentralized validati
This paper examines how aesthetics can foster inclusion in everyday urban infrastructures, using recycling rooms in residential areas as a case study. Drawing on a design ethnographic study of 27 municipal recycling facilities, three interconnected dimensions – access aesthetics, communicative aesthetics, and spatial aesthetics – were identified. Environments that are neglected, dark, and smelly t
Introduction: Human rhinovirus (HRV) is the primary cause of acute respiratory infections, but research on the likely transmission pathway via aerosols remains limited. Here, we investigate how relative humidity (RH) influences rhinovirus infectivity in the aerosol phase, which is essential for developing effective mitigation strategies.Method: Rhinovirus was aerosolized using a nebulizer into a f
This paper is based on interviews with 20 expert industrial designers with 8-40+ years of experience about how they are adopting generative AI into their workflows. Using thematic analysis, the study reveals how top-down pressure for speed and efficiency drives rapid, bottom-up adoption of generative AI tools. The core finding is that in this scramble for adoption, designers and design businesses
