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Anna Holm

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RN, MScN, PhD, post doc

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Development, evaluation, and implementation of patient involvement interventions. My current project is a mixed methods study with a focus on how patient involvement interventions support healthcare professional’s clinical reasoning process.

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Anna Winterbottom 

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Dr 

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Anna has expertise in (health) psychology, decision sciences and health services research methods, which she uses to investigate patients' and professionals' experience of treatment decision-making for kidney disease. Her current research focuses on the design and implementation of decision support interventions for people with established kidney disease, making treatment decisions.   

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Anne Bendix Andersen

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Manager of Research, Teacher & Part-time Associate Professor

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Intersectoral collaboration in the Danish Healthcare system. Focus on health professionals' collaboration. Focus on the structural and organizational conditions for intersectoral collaboration. Social constructivist approaches such as discourse analysis, positioning theory and ethnography with an interactionistic approach.

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Anne Katrine Leonhard

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MD, Research Assistant

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I work with a school-based HPV vaccination project, a cross-sectoral intervention which investigates whether school-based vaccination and increased information about HPV and vaccination can increase adherence. User involvement is applied and quantitative as well as qualitative analysis.

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Anne Mette Schmidt

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PhD, cand.scient.san, physiotherapist    

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I conduct research in the continuity of care internally at the regional Hospital of Silkeborg and across sectors. I apply quantitative methods and have knowledge and competencies within complex interventions including process evaluation, intervention research, rehabilitation and user involvement. 

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Annesofie Lunde Jensen

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Clinical Nurse Specialist & Associate Professor

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My professional research area focus on patient involvement, patient-reported outcome, telehealth intervention, health pedagogy, nursing and medical anthropology. It includes research with patients with endocrine disorders and patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. 

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Annette de Thurah

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Professor in health services research

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Health services research based on the development of new care and treatment interventions that make use of telemedicine and digital solutions. The goal is to establish user-driven solutions without loss of quality, which are developed based on the individual users' needs and health competencies.

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Annette Zøylner

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Clinical Nurse Specialist & PhD

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Patient involvement on the organizational and individual level. My Phd project: Patient involvement in the development of the surgical breast cancer patient pathway and the development and implementation of a patient decision aid are examples. My research orientation is action research.

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Bente Skovsby Toft

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Clinical Specialist, PhD, Master in Health and Humanities studies, Bach.Scient. in sports science, physiotherapist  

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Bente Skovsby Toft researches in patient involvement in own treatment and healthcare. Bente conducts literature reviews and qualitative health research on different perspectives on the evaluation of patient involvement in complex interventions.  

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Birgit Refsgaard Iversen

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Clinical Specialist, Phd

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My research is mainly within the fields of self-mangement, PRO-data, telemedicine, cross-sectorial collaboration, palliation, health literacy, quality of life and patient and public involvement. My research is on patients with pulmonary diseases, and, in particular, on patients with chronic illness. 

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Birgith Engelst Grove

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Pro-consultant, Phd

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In a randomised trial, Birgith investigates the use of patient reported outcome (PRO) in outpatients with renal failure. She evaluates if remote PRO-based follow-up is at least as effective as usual follow-up in managing decline in renal function and maintaining patients’ quality of life.

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Camilla Blach Rossen

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RN, MSN & PhD

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My area of research is cross-sectoral with a focus on the perspective of patients, relatives and professionals. I use user-involving and qualitative methods and focus on developing interventions that can create more coherent patient pathways.      

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Charlotte Arp Sørensen

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Pharmacist & PhD

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Different medication concepts at the hospital (eg. medication dispensing by nurse, self-administration of medication by patients, automatic medication system). Patient involvement, self-management support, medication errors, medication adherence, patient perspectives and health economic evaluations.

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Charlotte Dyrehave

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PhD, masters in medical Anthropology & Nurse 

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Adherence & health literacy, migrant health, cultural competence, patients’ narratives, history, and culture. The title of my PhD is: Development of an intervention to improve health literacy and adherence among patients with HIV and African background.

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Dorthe S. Nielsen

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Nurse and Professor in vulnerability 

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My research is focused on vulnerability and vulnerable patients, especially migrant health and older people have been my focal point in my research. I have competencies in qualitative research methods, but also surveys and questionnaires are within my area of research.    

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Eva Ladekjær Larsen

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Associate professor

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My research profile is characterized by taking a critical humanistic stand towards concepts and approaches that are used in health care and public health research. By the use of ethnographic methodology, I have studied how key concepts constitute and shape the frameworks and systems within which health care and welfare professionals are operating and how key concepts are practiced, negotiated, and resisted in social interactions between patients and professionals.        

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Eva Rames Nissen

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MSc Psychology & PhD 

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Psychosocial aspects of cancer survivorship, psychological interventions for psychological distress in cancer survivors, mindfulness-based interventions, eHealth, and patient and public involvement in research.    

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Gitte Susanne Rasmussen

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Clinical Nurse Specialist & Senior Researcher

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Henriette Vind Thaysen

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Assistant professor & Clinical Nurse Specialist

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Ida Hovdenak Jakobsen

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Clinical Nurse Specialist & PhD

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• Cancer follow-up (evidence base for follow-up, organisational approaches, patient involvement, handling of late-effects, psychosocial needs and support)
• Nursing and inter-disciplinary interventions related to patients with colorectal, hepato-biliary-pancreatic, ventricular and esophageal diseases.    

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Jeanette Finderup

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Clinical Nurse Specialist & PhD

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Developing and evaluating shared decision-making interventions and self-management support interventions. Involving patient and clinicians in the whole research process. Using patient reported outcome measures and patient involvement in nursing documentation.

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Kim Jørgensen

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Assistant Professor & PhD

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Psychiatric nursing, Health promotion, User involvement, recovery, interprofessional and cross-sectoral collaboration, Qualitative research (Interview studies, field studies), Action research, Systematic reviews (scoping and integrative), Discourse analysis.

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Lene Bastrup Jørgensen

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Chief Knowledge Officer, Associate Professor & PhD

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In my research, I focus on coping with health-related issues, and the use plus effect of different kinds of health informatics in various groups of patients in different settings of health sectors. This is accomplished in using mixed methods designs in collaboration with interdisciplinary research teams.

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Lene Seibæk

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Associate professor

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As a disease cannot be isolated from the person suffering from it, patient care represents an important element of all treatment. I research pre- and postoperative care, symptom relief, follow-up, patient involvement, and psychosocial support using qualitative as well as quantitative methods. 

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Liv Marit Valen Schougaard

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Project coordinator

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Louise Abildgaard Møller

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Assistant professor, PhD

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Patient involvement, Neurological care, Patient perspective, qualitative methods. In my PhD thesis, I explored everyday life aging with neuromuscular disease. Currently, I work on developing an intervention supporting coherent aging lives for persons with neuromuscular disease.   

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Mette Spliid Ludvigsen

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Associate professor and professor

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My research focuses predominantly on patient perspectives on health and disease and patient and public involvement. I have a particular interest in transitional care, and current research activities emphasise older adults' involvement in transitions between hospital and home using qualitative (review) methodologies.

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Mette Terp Høybye

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Associate professor

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My work engages questions related to medical technologies, uncertainties in diagnosis and prognosis of consciousness, knowledge making and translation in clinical research settings, social and cultural aspects of illness and methodological innovation within qualitative health research.

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Mia Blaabjerg

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Project nurse

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Mia Blaabjerg is developing a nursing intervention, targeting relatives in the Trauma Centers at Aarhus and Aalborg University Hospitals. The purpose of the intervention is to develop nursing skills and competencies to handle relatives to critically ill, injured or dead patients.

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Morten Deleuran Terkildsen

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Researcher & Part-time Associate Professor

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Palle Bager

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Clinical Nurse Specialist, Senior Researcher & Associate Professor

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Patients with liver or gut diseases are the main focus of my research. Topics include fatigue, worries, health-related quality of life, adherence, and health literacy. Also broader topics like patient involvement, development of care, self-management and equality in health are studied.

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Pernille Skovlund 

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PhD & Clinical nurse specialist

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Patient-reported outcomes, clinical cancer settings, patient-centered communication, self-management, health-related quality of life, patient and public involvement in research.

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MNSc, Project nurse, National Implementation Coordinator at DCCL

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Late-effects of breast cancer, Patient-reported outcomes, Self-management, Digital Health, Patient involvement, Health literacy, Development and implementation of digital tools.

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Pia Kirkegaard

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Senior Researcher

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Rikke Buus Bøje

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Postdoc

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Rikke Buus Bøje works on an EU-funded project – CBIG-Screen aiming to reduce inequality in cervical cancer screening. We involve stakeholders on a micro, meso and macro level in the development of tailored tools that aim to attract vulnerable women to be included in the screening programs.    

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Rikke Damkjær Maimburg

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Associate Professor

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Rikke Elmose Mols

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Associate Professor, PhD, Nurse and Head of Research of the project: MultiHeart and Coherence in Health Care

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The research programme investigates the psychosocial vulnerability in patients with advanced heart failure. To identify the impact of the psychosocial burden, the project explores if multimorbidity and the psychosocial burden are associated with cross-sectional health care services and prognosis.

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Susanne Nygaard Nielsen

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Clinical Nurse Specialist

Research area

Health Literacy, primarily digital and organizational health literacy. Is currently involved in conducting a prevalence study on digital health literacy among citizens with contact to a medium-sized hospital unit in Denmark. 

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Tina Wang Vedelø

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Associate Professor & PhD

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Patient involvement, neurosurgical care, brain cancer care, existential values. Currently working on "How to measure and improve patient participation during hospital admission – A Complex intervention to increase patient participation at the Department of neurosurgery, Aarhus University hospital".    

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Trine Ellegaard 

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Researcher

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Trine Laura Overgaard Hasle 

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Cand.scient.anth. & User experience consultant

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Trine Laura Overgaard Hasle assiste researchers, clinicians and administrative officers in practicing user involvement. Previously, she has been engaged in developing the method for user involvement "Borgerdesign" and affiliated as a researcher in the field of cancer diagnostics.

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Troels Kjærskov Hansen

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MD & PhD

Research area

Frailty, care transition, readmission and involvement of frail older patients as research partners. 

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Vibeke Bregnballe

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Part-time Associate Professor

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Course coordinator and instructor of the course on Patient and public involvement which is part of the healthcare master's degree programmes. Supervisor at master's level in the following areas: 1) patient and public involvement and 2) children and adolescents. No longer active in research. 

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Anne Poder Petersen

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MSc in Nursing, Research Assistant & PhD student

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My PhD project is about developing and evaluating a motivation-enhancing intervention to retain participants in a trial after treatment with allergen immunotherapy. Patients and clinicians will be involved in the process. 

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Anne Wilhøft Kristensen

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PhD-student & Clinical Nurse Specialist

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The research focus is to develop a patient decision aid to support patients with head and neck cancer with the decision to participate in clinical trials with proton therapy. A cross-sectional study on socioeconomic and psychosocial factors' influence on clinical trial participation is also conducted.

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Jonas Thorborg Stage

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Sociologist, Ph.D. Fellow.

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Jonas Thorborg Stage studies social differentiation in relation to inequalities in health. Grounded in sociology of health and illness, he analyses the relationships between institutions, fields, professions from the perspectives of citizens, patients, relatives and health professionals. Moreover, how practices of involvement reconfigure our healthcare system.    

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Kristian Damgaard Lyng    

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BPT., M.Sc. Clinical Science and Technology AAU, PhD-student 

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Kristian Damgaard Lyng's research focuses on improving the lives of both children and adults living with chronic musculoskeletal pain. He focuses on conducting research that actively engages patients and other stakeholders. He works with areas such as: self-management, shared decision-making, patient involvement and multi-disciplinary collaborations.

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Line Raunsbæk Knudsen

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Nurse responsible for Development & Education, Master & PhD-student

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Nursing, clinical research, health services research, qualitative research. Line Raunsbæk Knudsen's focus is mainly on research addressing new models of care for the benefit of patients with rheumatic diseases and the future health care system. In her PhD, she examines the effect of a web-based patient education program.

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Louise Engelbrecht Buur

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Phd-student

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Developing and evaluating an intervention using qualitative and quantitative methods to support shared decisions about End-of-Life Care between people with end stage kidney disease, their relatives and health professionals.

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Maria Højen

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RN, MScN, PhD Student

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E-learning in cross-sectorial cancer rehabilitation with a focus on exploring how an e-learning platform can strengthen rehabilitation across sectors and support the experience of coherence for patients and relatives in the management of everyday life living with cancer. The research method is qualitative.

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Marie Louise Thise Rasmussen 

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Nurse, MPH, PhD-student 

Research area

Patient involvement, shared decision making, transition of care, emergency department, both quantitative and qualitative design, constipation, cross-sectoral intervention.

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Sarah Cecilie Tscherning

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PhD student

Research area
The development of an intervention to improve guidance for researchers to engage patient partners in the research process. The outcome of the PhD project will provide guidance to ensure that future research corresponds with patient's priorities. The research method is qualitative.

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Tina Birkeskov Axelsen  

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Clinical Pharmacist & PhD-student 

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Tina Birkeskov Axelsen researches in developing and evaluating a shared decision-making intervention with a focus on psychiatric patient involvement in medication treatment and intersectoral collaboration between health professionals. She focuses on patient involvement in research, Shared Pharma Care, complex qualitative intervention.