At Danish Center for Health Services Research, we have PhD students who research in a wide range of areas within health economics, quality improvements in the health care system, health inequality and much more.
Below is a list of current and completed PhD projects.
Current PhD projects
Simon Grøntved:
”My PhD is about capacity demand forecasting. I study the future demand for capacity in the Region North Denmark Psychiatry, related to diagnosing attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).”
Forecasting attention deficit hyperactivity disorder psychiatric care capacity demand
Sabine M. Raunbak:
"My PhD is about the methodological issues in conducting health economic evaluations of telemedicine, where there is a focus on evaluating a telemedicine solution for citizens with COPD in Denmark."
Klaudia Kristensen:
“My PhD is about patients' priorities for their treatment process in psychiatry. I am conducting a quantitative survey to investigate what patients in psychiatry find important in their treatment process. I am doing this in a collaborative manner by working together with patients throughout the entire PhD period.”
Louise Gundel Stenfeldt:
"My PhD is about long term side effects after radiotherapy to the neck. I am studying the risk of stroke in cancer patients who have received radiation to the neck, and whether a dose-response relationship exists."
Maja Thaarup:
“My PhD is about patients with blood clots or bleeding in the brain (stroke). I investigate disparities before, during, and after hospitalization with stroke in Denmark to identify the most disadvantaged patients.”
Stine Foged Lindegaard:
”My PhD stems from the national research project, ATTEND-PE, aiming to develop and implement a structured follow-up program for patients with pulmonary embolism. In my Ph.D., I will conduct a clinical and health economic evaluation of the implementation of the follow-up program and address its effects both at the patient and societal levels."
Helena Palsgaard Nielsen:
"I investigate the long-term psychosocial consequences that witnesses and relatives of homicidal events experience, as well as the derived consequences for society. The findings will be used to improve and qualify the support and help offered to witnesses and relatives in the social and health care system."
Jakob Juul Christensen:
"My PhD focuses on the use of advanced paramedics as an alternative to traditional ambulance responses in the North Denmark Region. The project will examine whether this approach improves response times, reduces pressure on emergency departments, while also ensuring a high level of patient safety. Additionally, the project will shed light on the economic consequences and organizational implications of implementing advanced paramedics on a larger scale or with alternative implementation strategies."
Jakob Nebeling Hedegaard:
”My PhD is about automatic surveillance of Danish clinical health registry data. I am studying a range of algorithms, which, through unsupervised learning, can discover subpopulations of patients with trends in quality of care or clinical outcomes that warrant attention.”
Louise Juhl:
"My PhD project uses AI and machine learning to analyze health data and identify individuals at risk of stroke. I am testing new cuffless blood pressure monitoring technology, aiming to make screening more accessible and thereby improve early detection and prevention of strokes."
Viktor Kristoffersen:
"The aim of my PhD is identifying both barriers and opportunities for ensuring integrated person-centric care and treatment in peripheral arterial disease. Throughout the project both qualitative and quantitative insights will be created regarding patients’ treatment and care pathways. From these insights, we hope to provide the foundation for improvements in quality of care and further enlighten both society and specialists on peripheral arterial disease."
Affiliates Phd Projects
Heidi S. Eddelien:
“My PhD is about coherent stroke treatment. My objective is to examined fulfillment of process performance measures from DanStroke and mortality”
Jeannette Springer:
“My PhD-study is a nationwide epidemiologic study of long-term complications in children with arterial ischemic stroke and cerebral sinovenous thrombosis.
I am studying long-term neurological and psychiatric outcome in 251 Danish children after a cerebral thrombosis, as well as the economic aspect and academic performance. The results will be compared with a match from the general population.”
Completed PhD projects under DCHI, DACS and the Danish Center for Health Services Research
2025:
Birgitte Hede Ebbesen: Development of a patientcentered and evidence-based intervention following transient ischemic attack by exploring prognosis and impact
2024
Henrik Vitus Bering Laursen: Decision Models And Real-World Practice: Examining Non-Insulin Antidiabetic Treatments In Danish Type 2 Diabetes Patients Using Danish Registry Data
Charlotte B. Andersson: Quality and safety in childbirth the role of advanced gestational age and fetal acidosis
Juliane Frydenlund: Immigrants and atrial fibrillation: incidence, clinical out-comes, and treatment.
Peter Preben Eggertsen: Exploring Persistent Post-Concussion Symptoms: An Epidemiological, Biomedical, and Psychosocial Approach
Tora Rydtun Haug: Clinical outcomes and surgical skill assessment in Laparoscopic Complete Mesocolic Excision
2023
Line R. Rasmussen: Disparities in care and outcomes among patients admitted with depression
Amalie H. Simoni: Time trends in incidence, treatment, and clinical outcomes according to socioeconomic position in patients with acute coronary syndrome
2022
Pinar Kara: Composite Measures of Quality of Healthcare
Julie Mackenhauer: Disparities in emergency care among patients with mental illness
Søren Valgreen Knudsen: Inequalities in quality of care and clinical outcomes among Danish inpatients with major depressive disorder
Signe Heuckendorff: Health outcomes in children of parents with mental health conditions – Morbidity and use of healthcare services in early childhood
2020
Annette Willemoes Holst-Kristensen: Different aspects of municipal rehabilitation and the use of a capability measure –The importance of choice of outcome measure
2018
2017
Anne Sig Vestergaard: Using quality indicators in health economic evaluation to establish the value for money of quality improvements – obstacles and opportunities
Ann Lykkegaard Sørensen: Medication Safety in Psychiatry — Experiences from Medication Reviews and a Nurse-led Intervention
Cathrine Elgaard Jensen: Implementing Clinical Practice Guidelines into Everyday Practice – Potentials and Pitfalls
Flemming Witt Udsen: Health Economic Evaluation of Telehealthcare: Can we include “why” and “under what circumstances” telehealthcare is cost-effective in health economic evaluation?
Michael Falk Hvidberg: A framework for identifying disease burden and estimating health-related quality of life and prevalence rates for 199 medically defined chronic conditions
2016
Louise Hansen: The importance of epidemiological predictors for healthcare costs for chronic patients. A case study on osteoporotic fracture patients