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Editorial
. 2025 Jul;69(6):e70082.
doi: 10.1111/aas.70082.

Interactions With Relatives of Critically Ill Non-Western Immigrants: Do We Have a Blind Spot?

Mitti Blakoe  1 , Christian Sylvest Meyhoff  1 , Ditte Strange  2
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Editorial

Interactions With Relatives of Critically Ill Non-Western Immigrants: Do We Have a Blind Spot?

Mitti Blakoe et al. Acta Anaesthesiol Scand. 2025 Jul.
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Conflict of interest statement

None related to the present manuscript, but Christian Sylvest Meyhoff has founded a spin‐out company, WARD24/7 ApS, with the aim of pursuing the regulatory and commercial activities of the WARD‐project (Wireless Assessment of Respiratory and circulatory Distress, a project developing a clinical support system for continuous wireless monitoring of vital signs). WARD24/7 ApS has obtained license agreement for any WARD‐project software and patents. One patent has been filed: “Wireless Assessment of Respiratory and circulatory Distress (WARD), EP 21184712.4 and EP 21205557.8.”

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Examples of cultural dissonance between non‐Western relatives' cultural norms and the Scandinavian health care system's cultural norms.
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