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Article History

Received: 29 January 2020

Accepted: 6 April 2020

First Online: 19 May 2020

Ethics approval and consent to participate

: This study was conducted according to International research ethics and standards following the Declaration of Helsinki and was approved by the Swedish Ethical Review Authority in Uppsala, Sweden (No. 2016/264). To get permission to conduct the study, information was provided both verbally and in writing to the medical director of the surgical department and nurse managers at the OR department. Those who volunteered gave their written informed consent after receiving verbal and written information from one researcher (CG) including the voluntary nature of participation and the ability to withdraw at any time without further explanation, and confidential treatment of data. The manuscript had followed the reporting criteria for qualitative research according to the COREQ checklist.

: Consent for publication has been obtained from participants.

: The authors report no conflict of interest. The authors alone are responsible for the content and the writing of this manuscript.