Mette Kjer Kaltoft, PhD
R&D Nurse
Odense University Hospital - Svendborg
Valdemarsgade 51
Svendborg
Denmark
5700
Email:
mette.kjer.kaltoft@rsyd.dk
Biographical Sketch: Mette recently successfully defended her PhD thesis Towards improved decision quality in person-centred healthcare: exploring the implications of decision support via Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis at the University of Southern Denmark, based in the Department of Public Health. Her professional background includes RN, post-graduate courses at Mayo Medical Center and obstetrics at a WHO-accredited Baby-Friendly Birth Center in Rochester Minnesota, USA, intensive care pediatric and community nursing, outreach projects in sexual- and reproductive health, and health visitiing in multi-ethnic communities. Research positions and working as a R&D nurse at Odense University Hospital Svendborg Sygehus preceded the PhD study which is investigating the delivery of Annalisa-based decision support to patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease in St Mark's Hospital, London, and Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney. The findings will feed into the Danish context and involve translation. A major interest since 1984 has been exploring ways to help translate policy for equity in access to health into practice, also literally; and thus to a multi-criteria decision-analytic focus.
Papers:
THRESHOLD-BASED GUIDELINES THREATEN PREFERENCE-SENSITIVE DECISION MAKING IN PERSON-CENTRED CARE