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1. 1. Refusing Medical Treatment due to Mental Capacity - A Study of the Concept of a Valid Consent and What the Healthcare Personnel's Obligations are When the Patient has not Given an Informed Consent

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakulteten

   Author : Thérèse Bennshagen; [2021]
   Keywords : Healthcare; Mental Capacity; Legal Capacity; Administrative Law; Social and Welfare Law; Public International Law; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : This essay has two purposes: to examine how much the patient has to understand to be able to consent to medical treatment and what the healthcare personnel's obligations are when the consent is not informed. Regarding the first purpose I concluded that there is no explicit requirement of a certain mental capacity to consent but that if one considered an uninformed consent to constitute a forced bodily intervention, which is prohibited in Chapter 2 Section 6 Instrument of the Government, then medical treatment can be refused. READ MORE

3. 2. Analysis of Physiotherapists Perceptions for Improvement of Digital Innovation

   University essay from KTH/Medicinteknik och hälsosystem

   Author : Per Gustav Eriksson; [2020]
   Keywords : Digital innovation; Digitalisation; eHealth; mHealth; Healthcare; Physiotherapists; Q methodology;

   Abstract : With the current challenges for the healthcare such as increased demand for care, financial and resource constraints along with rapid changes and complexity there is high believe in digital innovation and digitalisation to efficacy resources and aid in delivering a safer, more accessible and patient centred valuable care. There is a digitalisation that is ongoing, being used and implemented over several different areas of healthcare. READ MORE

4. 3. Analysis of Physiotherapists Perceptions for Improvement of Digital Innovation

   University essay from KTH/Skolan för kemi, bioteknologi och hälsa (CBH)

   Author : Per Gustav Eriksson; [2020]
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   Abstract : Abstract With the current challenges for the healthcare such as increased demand for care, financial andresource constraints along with rapid changes and complexity there is high believe in digitalinnovation and digitalisation to efficacy resources and aid in delivering a safer, more accessibleand patient centred valuable care. There is a digitalisation that is ongoing, being used and implemented over several differentareas of healthcare. READ MORE

5. 4. Usability in Patient-Oriented Drug Interaction Checkers : A Scandinavian Sampling and Heuristic Evaluation

   University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för informatik (IK)

   Author : David Vingen; Elias J. Andrews; [2020]
   Keywords : patient-oriented healthcare; drug interactions; usability; heuristic evaluation; patientorienterad hälsovård; läkemedelsinteraktioner; användbarhet; heuristisk utvärdering;

   Abstract : Drug interactions are an important source of medical error. Studies have also shown it as a topic of particular interest to patients. To allow patients to participate in decision-making regarding their own health, they need to be empowered with information. This information must be provided through usable information systems. READ MORE

6. 5. Video Analysis Supporting Stroke Assessment within the Prehospital Care

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för Biomedicinsk teknik

   Author : Emma Anzén; [2018]
   Keywords : Augmented reality; FAST; NIHSS; prehospital care; quantitative measurements; stroke; telestroke; video analysis; Technology and Engineering;

   Abstract : Sweden, as well as the rest of the world has an increasing life-expectancy creating higher demands on the healthcare providers and on the quality of healthcare. Stroke is the third leading cause of death in Sweden. Prehospital stroke assessment is completed as rapid assessments by paramedics through the use of different stroke scales. READ MORE