Björn af Ugglas
Affiliated to Research
E-mail: bjorn.af.ugglas@ki.se
Visiting address: Widerströmska huset, Tomtebodavägen 18A, 17165 Solna
Postal address: C7 Lärande, Informatik, Management och Etik, C7 MMC Health Systems Leadership, Management and Safety, 171 77 Stockholm
Research
- My research is focused on demand and capacity imbalances in emergency care
and how this impacts patient outcomes. We recently published a study on how
hospital bed occupancy impacts patients and the emergency departments:
Association Between Hospital Bed Occupancy and Outcomes in Emergency Care: A
Cohort Study in Stockholm Region, Sweden, 2012 to 2016. [1]
Af Ugglas B, Djärv T, Ljungman PLS, Holzmann MJ
/Ann Emerg Med 2020 Jan - ():/
We did not find a significant association between higher bed occupancy and
increased 30-day mortality, but clear evidence that a higher bed occupancy
has a negative impact on the workload in the emergency department. As a next
step we are investigating if demand capacity imbalances (crowding) in the
emergency departments are associated with increased 30-day mortality,
increased revisits for discharged patients and increased hospital length of
stay for admitted patients.
[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31983500
Articles
- Article: SCANDINAVIAN JOURNAL OF TRAUMA, RESUSCITATION AND EMERGENCY MEDICINE. 2023;31(1):55
- Article: PLOS ONE. 2021;16(3):e0247881
- Article: JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF EMERGENCY PHYSICIANS OPEN. 2020;1(6):1312-1319
- Article: SCANDINAVIAN JOURNAL OF TRAUMA, RESUSCITATION AND EMERGENCY MEDICINE. 2020;28(1):107
- Article: ANNALS OF EMERGENCY MEDICINE. 2020;76(2):179-190
All other publications
- Thesis / dissertation: 2021
Employments
- Affiliated to Research, Department of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, Karolinska Institutet, 2023-2025
Degrees and Education
- Degree Of Doctor Of Philosophy, Department of Medicine, Solna, Karolinska Institutet, 2021