Lindblad, Marléne
Unbeck, Maria
Nilsson, Lena
Schildmeijer, Kristina
Ekstedt, Mirjam
Funding for this research was provided by:
Forskningsrådet i Sydöstra Sverige (No 470161)
Region östergötaland (LiO-537211)
Article History
Received: 3 December 2019
Accepted: 23 March 2020
First Online: 6 April 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Ethical approval was provided by the Regional Ethics Committee of Linköping (numbers 2014/150–31 and 2016/45–32). The ethical committe approved that the Head of department at each location gave his/her permission to one of the employees, a clinical nurse, to review a random sample of home healthcare records from their own organization for the aim of this study. The review team member at each location retrieved a predefined number of randomly selected records. As this study is retrospective and all data was anonymized, the ethical committee approved that no formal consent was necessary.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.