DOCTORAL THESIS. An interactive web system with the help of your mobile phone can be an effective tool for better blood pressure control. Test persons lowered their blood pressure, were better able to understand how their lifestyle affects their blood pressure and actively participated in followup discussions. These results were shown in a doctoral thesis at Sahlgrenska Academy. Well controlled blood pressure reduces the risk for cardio-vascular complications. In addition to…
Gothenburg Coordinates EU-project on Reducing Healthcare Costs
EU-wide there is a clear and urgent need to curb healthcare costs. Researchers at the University of Gothenburg Centre for Person-centred care have been given the task of coordinating a project to investigate how Europe’s healthcare costs can be kept down whilst quality of care is maintained or even improved.
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Malin Högberg, curator at the Röhsska Museum, talks with Astrid Norberg, professor emerita at the University of Umeå. The conversation focuses on person-centered care, taking it’s starting point in Malin Högbergs own life with type 1 diabetes.
Almedalen 2013:Person-centred care – reduces pain and shortens hospital stay
What practical obstacles stand in the way of real patient power? Examples from Sahlgrenska University Hospital/Östra in Gothenburg, where research findings are quickly implemented, indicate that person-centred care can shorten hospital stays, and patients are more satisfied. At a seminar during Almedal week, representatives from the department related how they had succeeded in shortening length of stay by twelve per cent after just six months. “Specifically, providing person-centred care means that we now ask each patient three questions: Why are you here? How do you perceive your problems? What are your goals for this hospital stay? ” says Elin Hultgren, specialty registrar at the internal medicine department.