Article History
Received: 1 June 2017
Accepted: 19 July 2018
First Online: 28 July 2018
Authors’ information
: DMS had 2 years of clinical experience as Registered Nurse (RN) in medical wards and 5 years in research and has not previously worked theoretically with relatives. LLS had 10 years of clinical experience as RN and 5 years in research of older medical patients. TL has 40 years of experience as RN and almost 20 years of experience with research regarding relatives of older patients.
: The Health Research Ethics Committee of the Capital Region of Denmark was presented with the project and found that formal ethical approval was not needed. According to Danish law, only research projects that involve testing on human beings and/or human biological material are required to report and get approval from the Ethics Committee before they can proceed [CitationRef removed]. Patients and relatives all gave written informed consent in accordance with the Helsinki Declaration and Danish law.
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: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
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