BACKGROUND Adults undergoing haemodialysis have significantly reduced physical capacity and run a high risk of developing cardiovascular complications. Research has shown that intra-dialytic cycling has many evidence-based health effects, but implementation is rare within renal clinical practice. This may be due to several causes, and this study focuses on the patients' perspective. This perspe...

This paper reports a phenomenographic study of how introductory students view objects that have been created and stored by an object-oriented program. By analyzing student interviews, we identify five categories of description, each representing a different kind of understanding of the phenomenon. Of these categories, some represent viable understandings that we would like our students to have....

Previous studies show that citizens usually prefer physicians as decision makers for rationing in health care, while politicians are downgraded. The findings are far from clear-cut due to methodological differences, and as the results are context sensitive they cannot easily be transferred between countries. Drawing on methodological experiences from previous research, this paper aims to identi...

BACKGROUND The publicly financed health service in Sweden has come under increasing pressure, forcing policy makers to consider restrictions. OBJECTIVE To describe different perceptions of rationing, in particular, what citizens themselves believe influences their acceptance of having to stand aside for others in a public health service. DESIGN Qualitative interviews, analysed by phenomenog...

OBJECTIVE Building surgical teams is one attempt to ensure the health-care system becomes more efficient, but how is 'efficiency' understood or interpreted? The aim was to study how organized surgical team members and their leaders understood operating room efficiency. DESIGN Qualitative study. SETTING A 1100-bed Swedish university hospital. PARTICIPANTS Eleven participants, nine team mem...

BACKGROUND General practitioners (GPs) have gradually become more involved in the prevention of cardiovascular disease (CVD), both through more frequent prescribing of pharmaceuticals and by giving advice regarding lifestyle factors. Most general practitioners are now faced with decisions about pharmaceutical or non-pharmaceutical treatment for primary prevention every day. The aim of this stud...

Introduction This chapter discusses using phenomenography to study information experience. Emphasizing the experiential nature of learning, Marton, Runesson, and Tsui (2004, p. 5) made the statement, " Powerful ways of acting spring from powerful ways of seeing. " This deceptively simple statement argues for the need for research that reveals the experiences (ways of seeing) of learners. It sug...

OBJECTIVE To portray experiences of women engaging in everyday tasks, activities, and occupations, from symptom onset to 12 months after diagnosis with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), and to explore the meanings attributed to their activities and occupations. METHODS A secondary analysis of qualitative data, guided by phenomenography, explored the stories of 37 women with early RA. The original st...

Entrepreneurial processes are most often based on new physical or organizational innovations; however, prior research has shown that the opening of markets for existing products can be a key innovative component in an entrepreneurial process. Most innovation focuses technologies, and forms. However, role played by different marketing tools is seldom highlighted. In this study, we highlight how ...