• Breastfeeding as a Specific Value in Women's Lives: The Experiences and Decisions of Breastfeeding Women 

      Lööf-Johanson, Margaretha; Foldevi, Mats; Rudebeck, Carl Edvard (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2013)
      Background: Worldwide, breastfeeding is recommended for every woman who gives birth to a child. The propensity to breastfeed varies. There is considerable knowledge about the experiences and circumstances that affect the decision to breastfeed, but knowledge about what actually generates the decision’s force still needs to be increased. The aim of this study was to gain knowledge of how the ...
    • The characteristics of general practice and the attractiveness of working as a GP: medical students´ views 

      Landström, Björn; Mattsson, Bengt; Nordin, Per; Rudebeck, Carl Edvard (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2014)
    • Clinical Gaze in Risk-Factor Haze: Swedish GPs' Perceptions of Prescribing Cardiovascular Preventive Drugs 

      Hultberg, Josabeth; Rudebeck, Carl Edvard (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2012)
      To explore general practitioners’ (GPs’) descriptions of their thoughts and action when prescribing cardiovascular preventive drugs. Methods. Qualitative content analysis of transcribed group interviews with 14 participants from two primary health care centres in the southeast of Sweden. Results. GPs’ prescribing of cardiovascular preventive drugs, from their own descriptions, involved “the patient ...
    • GPs' decision-making - perceiving the patient as a person or a disease 

      Andre, M; Anden, A; Borgquist, L; Rudebeck, Carl Edvard (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2012)
      Background: The aim of this study was to analyse the clinical decision making strategies of GPs with regard to the whole range of problems encountered in everyday work. Methods: A prospective questionnaire study was carried through, where 16 General practitioners in Sweden registered consecutively 378 problems in 366 patients. Results: 68.3% of the problems were registered as somatic, 5.8% as ...
    • "I did not intend to stop. I just could not stand cigarettes any more." A qualitative interview study of smoking cessation among the elderly 

      Medbø, Astri; Melbye, Hasse; Rudebeck, Carl Edvard (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2011)
      Every year, more than 650,000 Europeans die because they smoke. Smoking is considered to be the single most preventable factor influencing health. General practitioners (GP) are encouraged to advise on smoking cessation at all suitable consultations. Unsolicited advice from GPs results in one of 40-60 smokers stopping smoking. Smoking cessation advice has traditionally been given on an individual ...
    • Leadership in rural medicine: The organization on thin ice? 

      Hana, jan; Rudebeck, Carl Edvard (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2011-04-28)
      Objective. To explore the personal experiences of and conceptions regarding leading rural primary care in Northern Norway. Design. Qualitative content analysis of focus-group interviews. Setting. Lead primary care physicians in the three northernmost counties. Subjects. Four groups with 22 out of 88 municipal lead physicians in the region. Results. Three main categories were developed and bound ...
    • Patient participation in decision-making about cardiovascular preventive drugs-resistance as agency 

      Hultberg, Josabeth; Rudebeck, Carl Edvard (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2017-02-28)
      <p><i>Objective</i>: The aim of the study was to describe and explore patient agency through resistance in decision-making about cardiovascular preventive drugs in primary care.</p> <p><i>Design</i>: Six general practitioners from the southeast of Sweden audiorecorded 80 consultations. From these, 28 consultations with proposals from GPs for cardiovascular preventive drug treatments were chosen ...
    • Physicians' messages in problematic sickness certification : a narrative analysis of case reports 

      Engblom, Monika; Alexanderson, Kristina; Rudebeck, Carl Edvard (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2011)
      Many physicians find sickness certification tasks problematic. There is some knowledge about situations that are experienced as problematic, whereas less is understood about how physicians respond to the problems they face. One way to acquire such knowledge is to consider “reflection-in-action”, aspects of which are expressed in the physician’s interpretation of the patient’s story. The aim of this ...
    • A qualitative study of final-year medical students’ perspectives of general practitioners’ competencies 

      Landstrøm, Bjørn; Mattsson, Bengt; Rudebeck, Carl Edvard (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2011-09-23)
      Objectives: To investigate final-year medical students' perspectives of general practitioners' competencies. A further aim of the study was to investigate which type of clinical problems is properly managed by GPs according to students.<p> <p>Methods: We conducted a qualitative study of 49 final year medical students from two programmes. Reflective writing statements were used to collect data. ...
    • Touch and relate: body experience among staff in habilitation services 

      Råsmark, Görel; Richt, Bengt; Rudebeck, Carl Edvard (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2014)
      In habilitation centres staff meet children with different impairments, children who need extensive support and training while growing up. A prevailing biomedical view of the body in habilitation services is gradually becoming supplemented by a perspective on the body as constantly involved in experiencing and communicating, the latter involving also the bodies of the therapists. Investigating ...