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Mia Svantesson

Position: Affiliated Researcher School/office: School of Health Sciences

Email: mia.svantesson@oru.se

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Research subject

Nursing Science

About Mia Svantesson

Mia Svantesson is an associate professor in medical ethics, affiliated to Örebro University, but employed as a research supervisor at the University Health Research Center and as ethics advisor in Region Örebro County. She has a background as a critical care nurse specialist.

Research

The focus is ethics research related to decision-making about life-sustaining treatment and methods to support healthcare professionals in ethically difficult situations; clinical ethics support/moral case deliberation.

Mia possesses expertise on complex research methods; eg abductive content analysis, ethnography and participant observation. Mia has been involved in or led European ethics research projects. Mia has a significant publication of scientific papers, editorials and review assignments. She has also been interviewed in popular science magazines, received an ethics award for moral case deliberation research and has now been appointed as an 'outstanding author' by Annual palliative medicine.

Collaborations and assignments

Participating researcher in the European critical care projects ETHICATT, Ethicus and CONFLICUS departing from European Society of Intensive Care Medicine
Senior research fellow in a UK ethnographic project Warwick university, funded by the National Institute for Health Research on understanding the decision-making process about intensive care.
Directed a research project on assessments of intensive care/level of care during Covid-19, as well as on staff moral distress.
Shared project leadership with Bert Molewijk, University Medical center, Amsterdam regarding the European collaboration on the development of an evaluation instrument for ethics support. The revision work has transitioned to national collaboration with shared project leadership with Pernilla Pergert, Caroline Institute. There is also a collaboration regarding different methods for ethics support in Sweden in this national ethics support research team.
Member in the European Clinical Ethics Network, the Swedish Nurses Association's ethics delegation and ethics advisor in the Clinical Ethics Committee and the Political Ethics Council, RÖL.
Supervision of a total of nine doctoral students with emphasis on ethics.

Research projects
Publications

Active projects

Experiences and outcomes of cough-assist for persons with progressive neurological disease

Publications

Articles in journals

Andersson-Watz, A. , Nygren-Bonnier, M. , Bergdahl, E. , Eriksson Crommert, M. & Svantesson, M. (2024). Introducing Mechanically Assisted Cough for Patients with Progressive Neurological Disease: Patient-Physical Therapist Interaction and Physical Therapist Perspective. Physical Therapy.
Jakobsen, L. M. , Molewijk, B. , de Snoo-Trimp, J. , Svantesson, M. & Ursin, G. (2024). What is a High-Quality Moral Case Deliberation? Facilitators' Perspectives in the Euro-MCD Project. HEC Forum.
Heidenreich, K. , Svantesson, M. , Karlsson, M. & Bremer, A. (2023). Exploring what is reasonable: uncovering moral reasoning of vascular surgeons in daily practice. BMC Medical Ethics, 24 (1).
Svantesson, M. , Durnell, L. & Heidenreich, K. (2023). What are surgeons' feelings of moral (di)stress?. Annals of palliative medicine, 12 (5), 868-871.
de Snoo-Trimp, J. C. , Molewijk, A. C. , Svantesson, M. , Widdershoven, G. A. M. & de Vet, H. C. W. (2022). Field-Testing the Euro-MCD Instrument: Important Outcomes According to Participants Before and After Moral Case Deliberation. HEC Forum, 34 (1), 1-24.
Svantesson, M. , Durnell, L. , Hammarström, E. , Jarl, G. & Sandman, L. (2022). Moral and exhausting distress working in the frontline of COVID-19: a Swedish survey during the first wave in four healthcare settings. BMJ Open, 12 (7).
Griffiths, F. , Svantesson, M. , Bassford, C. , Dale, J. , Blake, C. , McCreedy, A. & Slowther, A. (2021). Decision-making around admission to intensive care in the UK pre-COVID-19: a multicentre ethnographic study. Anaesthesia, 76 (4), 489-499.
Svantesson, M. , Griffiths, F. , White, C. , Bassford, C. & Slowther, A. (2021). Ethical conflicts during the process of deciding about ICU admission: an empirically driven ethical analysis. Journal of Medical Ethics, 47 (12).
Appelros, P. , Svensson, E. , Heidenreich, K. & Svantesson, M. (2021). Ethical issues in stroke thrombolysis revisited. Acta Neurologica Scandinavica, 144 (6), 611-615.
Heidenreich, K. , Slowther, A. , Griffiths, F. , Bremer, A. & Svantesson, M. (2021). UK consultants' experiences of the decision-making process around referral to intensive care: an interview study. BMJ Open, 11 (3).
de Snoo-Trimp, J. C. , Molewijk, B. , Ursin, G. , Brinchmann, B. S. , Widdershoven, G. A. , de Vet, H. C. & Svantesson, M. (2020). Field-testing the Euro-MCD Instrument: Experienced outcomes of moral case deliberation. Nursing Ethics, 27 (2), 390-406.
de Snoo-Trimp, J. C. , de Vet, H. C. W. , Widdershoven, G. A. M. , Molewijk, A. C. & Svantesson, M. (2020). Moral competence, moral teamwork and moral action: the European Moral Case Deliberation Outcomes (Euro-MCD) Instrument 2.0 and its revision process. BMC Medical Ethics, 21 (1).
Mahdi, A. , Svantesson, M. , Wretenberg, P. & Hälleberg Nyman, M. (2020). Patients’ experiences of discontentment one year after total knee arthroplasty: a qualitative study. BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, 21 (1).
Silén, M. & Svantesson, M. (2019). Impact of clinical ethics support on daily practice: First-line managers' experiences in the Euro-MCD project. Journal of Nursing Management, 27 (7), 1374-1383.
Svantesson, M. , de Snoo-Trimp, J. C. , Ursin, G. , de Vet, H. C. , Brinchmann, B. S. & Molewijk, B. (2019). Important outcomes of moral case deliberation: a Euro-MCD field survey of healthcare professionals' priorities. Journal of Medical Ethics, 45 (9), 608-616.
Bassford, C. R. , Krucien, N. , Ryan, M. , Griffiths, F. E. , Svantesson, M. , Fritz, Z. , Perkins, G. D. , Quinton, S. & et al. (2019). U.K. Intensivists' Preferences for Patient Admission to ICU: Evidence From a Choice Experiment. Critical Care Medicine, 47 (11), 1522-1530.
Svantesson, M. , Silén, M. & James, I. (2018). It's not all about moral reasoning: Understanding the content of Moral Case Deliberation. Nursing Ethics, 25 (2), 212-229.
Heidenreich, K. , Bremer, A. , Materstvedt, L. J. , Tidefelt, U. & Svantesson, M. (2018). Relational autonomy in the care of the vulnerable: health care professionals' reasoning in Moral Case Deliberation (MCD). Medicine, Health care and Philosophy, 21 (4), 467-477.
Prenkert, M. , Carlsson, E. , Svantesson, M. & Anderzén-Carlsson, A. (2017). Healthcare-professional patients’ conceptions of being ill and hospitalised: a phenomenographic study. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 26 (11-12), 1725-1736.
Rasoal, D. , Kihlgren, A. & Svantesson, M. (2017). ‘It’s like sailing’: experiences of the role as facilitator during moral case deliberation. Clinical Ethics, 12 (3), 1-8.
Nilsson, C. , Bremer, A. , Blomberg, K. & Svantesson, M. (2017). Responsibility and compassion in prehospital support to survivors of suicide victim - Professionals' experiences. International Emergency Nursing, 35, 37-42.
de Snoo-Trimp, J. , Widdershoven, G. , Svantesson, M. , de Vet, R. & Molewijk, B. (2017). What Outcomes do Dutch Healthcare Professionals Perceive as Important Before Participation in Moral Case Deliberation?. Bioethics, 31 (4), 246-257.
Svantesson, M. , Carlsson, E. , Prenkert, M. & Anderzen-Carlsson, A. (2016). 'Just so you know, the patient is staff': healthcare professionals' perceptions of caring for healthcare professional-patients. BMJ Open, 6 (1).
Svensson, M. , Nilsson, U. & Svantesson, M. (2016). Patients’ experience of mood while waiting for day surgery. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 25 (17-18), 2600-2608.
Carlsson, E. , Anderzén Carlsson, A. , Prenkert, M. & Svantesson, M. (2016). Ways of understanding being a healthcare professional in the role of family member of a patient admitted to hospital: A phenomenographic study. International Journal of Nursing Studies, 53, 50-60.
Rasoal, D. , Kihlgren, A. , James, I. & Svantesson, M. (2016). What healthcare teams find ethically difficult: Captured in 70 moral case deliberations. Nursing Ethics, 23 (8), 825-837.
Svantesson, M. , Karlsson, J. , Boitte, P. , Schildman, J. , Dauwerse, L. , Widdershoven, G. , Pedersen, R. , Huisman, M. & et al. (2014). Outcomes of Moral Case Deliberation: the development of an evaluation instrument for clinical ethics support (the Euro-MCD). BMC Medical Ethics, 15.
Bulow, H. , Sprung, C. L. , Baras, M. , Carmel, S. , Svantesson, M. , Benbenishty, J. , Maia, P. A. , Beishuizen, A. & et al. (2012). Are religion and religiosity important to end-of-life decisions and patient autonomy in the ICU?: The Ethicatt study. Intensive Care Medicine, 38 (7), 1126-1133.
Anderzén-Carlsson, A. , Kihlgren, M. , Svantesson, M. & Sorlie, V. (2010). Parental handling of fear in children with cancer: caring in the best interests of the child. Journal of Pediatric Nursing: Nursing Care of Children and Families, 25 (5), 317-326.
Svantesson, M. , Anderzén-Carlsson, A. , Thorsén, H. , Kallenberg, K. & Ahlström, G. (2008). Interprofessional ethics rounds concerning dialysis patients: staff's ethical reflections before and after rounds. Journal of Medical Ethics, 34 (5), 407-413.
Svantesson, M. , Löfmark, R. , Thorsén, H. , Kallenberg, K. & Ahlström, G. (2008). Learning a way through ethical problems: Swedish nurses’ and doctors’ experiences from one model of ethics rounds. Journal of Medical Ethics, 34 (5), 399-406.
Silén, M. , Svantesson, M. & Ahlström, G. (2008). Nurses' conceptions of decision making concerning life-sustaining treatment. Nursing Ethics, 15 (2), 160-173.
Sprung, C. L. , Carmel, S. , Sjokvist, P. , Baras, M. , Cohen, S. L. , Maia, P. , Beishuizen, A. , Nalos, D. & et al. (2007). Attitudes of European physicians, nurses, patients, and families regarding end-of-life decisions: the ETHICATT study. Intensive Care Medicine, 33 (1), 104-110.
Anderzén-Carlsson, A. , Kihlgren, M. , Svantesson, M. & Sörlie, V. (2007). Children's fear as experienced by the parents of children with cancer. Journal of Pediatric Nursing: Nursing Care of Children and Families, 22 (3), 233-244.
Benbenishty, J. , DeKeyser Ganz, F. , Lippert, A. , Bulow, H. , Wennberg, E. , Henderson, B. , Svantesson, M. , Baras, M. & et al. (2006). Nurse involvement in end-of-life decision making: the ETHICUS Study. Intensive Care Medicine, 32 (1), 129-132.
Svantesson, M. , Sjökvist, P. , Thorsén, H. & Ahlström, G. (2006). Nurses’ and physicians’ opinions on aggressiveness of treatment for general ward patients. Nursing Ethics, 13 (2), 147-162.
Svantesson, M. , Sjökvist, P. & Thorsén, H. (2003). End-of-life decisions in Swedish ICUs: how do physicians from the admitting department reason?. Intensive & Critical Care Nursing, 19 (4), 241-251.

Conference papers

Högström, S. , Duberg, A. & Svantesson, M. (2021). Parents’ experiences of how their daughters, with recurrent abdominal pain, were influenced by participating in an intervention study with dance and yoga. Paper presented at European Paediatric Psychology Conference 2021, Stockholm [DIGITAL], October 4-6, 2021.
Heidenreich, K. , Slowther, A. , Bremer, A. , Griffiths, F. & Svantesson-Sandberg, M. (2019). The complex decision-making process of referring patients to intensive care: meanings of senior doctor’s experiences. Paper presented at EACME Annual Conference: Rethinking Ethics in 21st Century Europe, Oxford, United Kingdom, September 12-14, 2019.
Svantesson Sandberg, M. & Heidenreich, K. (2018). Do analysis methods need to be altered when using software program?. Paper presented at The third Nordic Conference in Nursing Research – Methods and Networks for the future, Oslo, Norway, June 13-15, 2018.
Svantesson-Sandberg, M. , Griffiths, F. , Bassford, C. & Slowther, A. (2017). Values in conict during the decision making process surrounding admission to intensive care: Ethnographic study in six British hospitals. Paper presented at 2017 The European Association of Centres of Medical Ethics (EACME) Annual Conference, Barcelon, Spain, September 7-9, 2017.

Daily newspapers

Eriksson, M. , Johansson, S. , Sandman, L. & Svantesson, M. (2021). Oetiskt att vägra vård till vaccinmotståndare. Dagens Nyheter.

Doctoral theses, comprehensive summaries

Svantesson, M. (2008). Postpone death?: Nurse-physician perspectives on life-sustaining treatment and ethics rounds. (Doctoral dissertation). (Comprehensive summary) Örebro: Örebro universitet.

Manuscripts

Rasoal, D. , Svantesson, M. & Kihlgren, A. ‘It’s like sailing’- experiences of the role as facilitator during moral case deliberation.

Other

Svantesson, M. , Molewijk, B. & Slowther, A. (2020). Using moral case deliberation as an analysis tool for exploring decision-making around admission to intensive care, in research before and during COVID-19. BMJ Publishing Group Ltd.

Reports

Bassford, C. , Griffiths, F. , Svantesson, M. , Ryan, M. , Krucien, N. , Dale, J. , Rees, S. , Rees, K. & et al. (2019). Developing an intervention around referral and admissions to intensive care: a mixed-methods study. Southampton, UK: NIHR Journals Library (Health Services and Delivery Research 7).