Annemette Krintel Petersen

REVIEW ARTICLE Lotte Sørensen Corresponding Author E-mail address: lotsoere@rm.dk https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5123-151X Department of Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy, Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Denmark Corresponding author Lotte Sørensen, Department of Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy,Aarhus University Hospital, Palle Juul‐Jensens Boulevard 99, DK‐ 8200 Aarhus N.Denmark Email: lotsoere@rm.dk Search for more papers by...

Aims and objectives To explore patients’ experiences and perspectives of their challenges and needs regarding their return to everyday life after allogeneic non‐myeloablative haematopoietic stem cell transplantation (NMA‐HSCT). Background NMA‐HSCT can cure patients with malignant blood diseases, but during the following years the majority of patients suffer from serious side effects and complications.

To explore patients’ experiences of acute dyspnoea, physical functioning and perspectives on course of illness prior to admission to the emergency department. Many emergency admissions are considered unnecessary and avoidable. In this perspective, it seems relevant to gain insight into the patients’ perspective on acute dyspnoea and the need for emergency admission. However, only few studies have investigated reasons for emergency admission from a patient perspective.