Table 1 Example of codes within the theme “Balance”
Example quotes from the interviews | Codes | Theme |
|---|---|---|
“We did not manage the higher healthcare level all by ourselves due to the hospital’s fundamental mission – we needed help from the University hospital.” | Capacity shortage | Balance |
“There were a lot of relocations of employees, staff members to other units, we needed to do it to strengthen the needing units, but that decreased the elective care a lot and for quite a long time.” | Decrease of elective care | |
“There is a special group for planning the number of surgery teams – but then we need to ensure that inpatient resources exist. I think it has worked well.” | Increase of elective care | |
“The first wave was worse than the second wave.” | Excess capacity during the first wave |