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Bengt Fridlund

Bengt Fridlund

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D-Index
72
Citations
18332
World Ranking
19844
National Ranking
384

Overview

Bengt Fridlund is affiliated with Linnaeus University in Sweden and has a research profile focused on medicine and health professions, with an emphasis on cardiology, emergency medicine, and epidemiology. Their work spans multiple subfields including cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, emergency medicine, general health professions, economics and econometrics, and epidemiology.

Their research topics include:

  • Emergency and Acute Care Studies
  • Cardiac Health and Mental Health
  • Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
  • Disaster Response and Management
  • Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy
  • Heart Failure Treatment and Management
  • Health Literacy and Information Accessibility

Bengt Fridlund has published extensively in several academic journals. Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing
  • BMJ Open
  • International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-Being
  • International Emergency Nursing
  • European Heart Journal

Significant recent papers by Bengt Fridlund and collaborators include:

  • "A scoping review and mapping exercise comparing the content of patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) across heart disease-specific scales," 2020, Journal of Patient-Reported Outcomes
  • "The dialogue as decision support; lived experiences of extended collaboration when an ambulance is called," 2021, International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-Being
  • "Health Literacy and Risk Factors for Coronary Artery Disease (From the CONCARDPCI Study)," 2022, The American Journal of Cardiology
  • "Patients' aged ≥65 years dispositions during ambulance assignments, including factors associated with non-conveyance to hospital: a longitudinal and comparative study," 2020, BMJ Open
  • "Frailty Status and Patient-Reported Outcomes in Octogenarians Following Transcatheter or Surgical Aortic Valve Replacement," 2021, Heart Lung and Circulation

Frequent collaborators include Carina Elmqvist, Anders Svensson, Tone M. Norekvål, Heather Allore, and Tore Wentzel-Larsen, who have coauthored multiple works with Bengt Fridlund. The collaboration with these researchers reflects a network engaged in multidisciplinary health research.

Best Publications

  • Patient satisfaction with nursing care in the context of health care: a literature study

    Peter Johansson;Magnus Oléni;Bengt Fridlund;Bengt Fridlund

  • Nurse-led heart failure clinics improve survival and self-care behaviour in patients with heart failure: results from a prospective, randomised trial.

    Anna Strömberg;Jan Mårtensson;Bengt Fridlund;Lars-Åke Levin

  • Gender differences in health habits and in motivation for a healthy lifestyle among Swedish university students.

    Margareta I K von Bothmer;Margareta I K von Bothmer;Bengt Fridlund;Bengt Fridlund;Bengt Fridlund

  • Stressful memories and psychological distress in adult mechanically ventilated intensive care patients - a 2-month follow-up study

    Karin Samuelson;Dag Lundberg;Bengt Fridlund

  • Sleep difficulties, daytime sleepiness, and health-related quality of life in patients with chronic heart failure

    Anders Broström;Anna Strömberg;Ulf Dahlström;Bengt Fridlund

  • Of vigilance and invisibility – being a patient in technologically intense environments

    Sofia Almerud;Richard J Alapack;Bengt Fridlund;Margaretha Ekebergh

  • The prevalence of the use of androgenic anabolic steroids by adolescents in a county of Sweden.

    Sverker Nilsson;Amir Baigi;Bertil Marklund;Bengt Fridlund

  • Living with heart failure: depression and quality of life in patients and spouses

    Jan Mårtensson;Jan Mårtensson;Kathleen Dracup;Cheryl Canary;Bengt Fridlund;Bengt Fridlund;Bengt Fridlund

  • Sexual counselling of cardiac patients:: Nurses perception of practice, responsibility and confidence

    Tiny Jaarsma;Anna Strömberg;B Fridlund;S De Geest

  • Patients' perceptions of self-determination as expressed in the context of care.

    Stina Nordgren;Bengt Fridlund

  • Female patients with congestive heart failure : how they conceive their life situation.

    Jan Mårtensson;Jan‐Erik Karlsson;Bengt Fridlund

  • Stressful experiences in relation to depth of sedation in mechanically ventilated patients.

    Karin A M Samuelson;Dag Lundberg;Bengt Fridlund

  • Male patients with congestive heart failure and their conception of the life situation

    Jan Mårtensson;Jan-Erik Karlsson;Bengt Fridlund

  • Memory in relation to depth of sedation in adult mechanically ventilated intensive care patients

    Karin Samuelson;Dag Lundberg;Bengt Fridlund

  • Computer-based education for patients with chronic heart failure. A randomised, controlled, multicentre trial of the effects on knowledge, compliance and quality of life.

    Anna Strömberg;Ulf Dahlström;Bengt Fridlund;Bengt Fridlund

  • Heart failure management programmes in Europe.

    Trijntje (Tiny) Jaarsma;A Stromberg;S. De Geest;B. Fridlund

  • Nurse-led follow-up on demand or by a physician after breast cancer surgery: a randomised study.

    Inga-Lill Koinberg;Inga-Lill Koinberg;Inga-Lill Koinberg;Bengt Fridlund;Bengt Fridlund;G.-B Engholm;L. Holmberg

  • Sexual Counseling for Individuals With Cardiovascular Disease and Their Partners A Consensus Document From the American Heart Association and the ESC Council on Cardiovascular Nursing and Allied Professions (CCNAP)

    Elaine E. Steinke;Tiny Jaarsma;Susan Ann Barnason;Molly Byrne

  • Self-rated health among university students in relation to sense of coherence and other personality traits.

    Margareta I K von Bothmer;Margareta I K von Bothmer;Bengt Fridlund;Bengt Fridlund;Bengt Fridlund

  • Nurse-led heart failure clinics in Sweden

    Anna Strömberg;Jan Mårtensson;Jan Mårtensson;Bengt Fridlund;Bengt Fridlund;Bengt Fridlund;Ulf Dahlström

Frequent Co-Authors

Amir H. Pakpour
Amir H. Pakpour Jönköping University
Tiny Jaarsma
Tiny Jaarsma Linköping University
David R. Thompson
David R. Thompson Queen's University Belfast
Per Nilsen
Per Nilsen Linköping University
Tore Wentzel-Larsen
Tore Wentzel-Larsen Norwegian Centre for Violence and Traumatic Stress Studies
Simon Stewart
Simon Stewart Torrens University Australia
Chung Ying Lin
Chung Ying Lin National Cheng Kung University
Anders Svensson
Anders Svensson University of Copenhagen
Sabina De Geest
Sabina De Geest University of Basel
Lars Holmberg
Lars Holmberg King's College London

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