Research: Quality of Life

Within the health-care system, patients are often seen as helpless and in need of caretaking by healthcare professionals. This view may many times be disabling for the health-care process, extending rehabilitation, resulting in great costs both to the patient and to the health-care sector. It would clearly be beneficial if the health-care process could be made more efficient, with more expedient care, a shorter rehabilitation process involving more outpatient care and at the same time could be tailored more specifically to the individual patient’s needs and resources. Empowering patients to take charge of their own health and rehabilitation process is an important step in actualizing the overall goal of a more efficient health-care process.

An ongoing research project investigates empowerment in outpatient care for patients with hip fractures. This is a collaboration with researchers at the Karolinska University Hospital in Huddinge.

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• Mats G. Hansson, Professor of Biomedical Ethics
  
  
  
  
• Lena Ring, Associate Professor of Pharmaceutical Outcomes Research