Treating the disease and meeting the person with the illness-patient perspectives of needs during infective endocarditis, a qualitative study

• Helena Lindberg ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Helena Lindberg, Ingrid Larsson

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: helena.lindberg@regionhalland.se

  Affiliations Department of Infectious Diseases, Hospital of Halland, Halmstad, Sweden, Department of Clinical Sciences Lund, Division of Infection Medicine, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7493-3979

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• Johan Vaktnäs ,

  Roles Formal analysis, Supervision, Validation

  ¶‡ JV and MR also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Oncology and Palliative Medicine, Hospital of Halland, Varberg, Sweden

  https://orcid.org/0009-0009-8576-2082

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• Magnus Rasmussen ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ JV and MR also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences Lund, Division of Infection Medicine, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

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• Ingrid Larsson

  Contributed equally to this work with: Helena Lindberg, Ingrid Larsson

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Health and Nursing, School of Health and Welfare, Halmstad University, Halmstad, Sweden, Spenshult Research and Development Centre, Halmstad, Sweden, Department of Clinical Sciences, Section of Rheumatology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4341-660X

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