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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2011)Background Usually, colonoscopy insertion is performed by the colonoscopist (one-person technique). Quite common in the early days of endoscopy, the assisting nurse is now only rarely doing the insertion ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)Background Female drug users report poorer physical and mental health than male drug users. We describe female and male patients treated for acute recreational drug toxicity, and look for gender differences ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2015)Background Women have shown consistently higher levels of sickness absence from work in comparison to men, but explanations for this gender gap have not been completely understood. Life-course studies suggest that health ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)Background The EQ-5D-3 L instrument is a standardized questionnaire which was developed as a simple, generic measure of health for clinical and economic appraisal. To aid in the interpretation, scores are ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2010)Background The Prescription Peer Academic Detailing (Rx-PAD) project is an educational intervention study aiming at improving GPs' competence in pharmacotherapy. GPs in CME peer groups were randomised to ...
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(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2019)Comprehensive primary care services are associated with better healthcare quality. The aims of this thesis were to compare medical services provided by GPs in the Nordic countries, to study associations between organisational ...
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General practitioners' perspectives on care coordination in primary health care: A qualitative study (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)Introduction To explore Norwegian general practitioners’ experiences with care coordination in primary health care. Methods Qualitative study using data from five focus groups with 32 general practitioners in Norway. ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)Objective: To explore general practitioners’ (GPs) views on leadership roles and leadership challenges in general practice and primary health care. Design: We conducted focus groups (FGs) with 17 GPs. Setting: Norwegian ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2015)Objective An increasing number of cancer patients place a significant workload on hospital outpatient clinics, and health authorities are considering alternative follow-up regimens. It has been suggested that follow-up of ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)Antibiotic consumption varies greatly between Norwegian municipalities. We examine whether this variation is associated with inhabitants’ consultation rates or general practitioners’ (GP) prescription rates. Our study ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion, 2018)How can overdiagnosis be defined, explained, and estimated on an individual level? The answers to this question are essential for persons to be able to make informed choices and give valid consents for tests. Traditional ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2015)Anti-microbial resistance, emerging infectious diseases, and neglected diseases are all important public health concerns and priorities with serious market failures, deficits, and identified needs in biomedical innovation. It ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)This comparative case study investigated how two intergovernmental organisations without formal health mandates – the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the World Trade Organization (WTO) – have engaged with ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)Background Assessments of age-specific mortality and life expectancy have been done by the UN Population Division, Department of Economics and Social Affairs (UNPOP), the United States Census Bureau, WHO, and as part ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)At the broadest grouping of causes of death (Level 1), non-communicable diseases (NCDs) comprised the greatest fraction of deaths, contributing to 73·4% (95% uncertainty interval [UI] 72·5–74·1) of total deaths in 2017, ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)Background The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study 2015 provides an up-to-date synthesis of the evidence for risk factor exposure and the attributable burden of disease. By providing national and ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)Background: The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) 2017 comparative risk assessment (CRA) is a comprehensive approach to risk factor quantification that offers a useful tool for synthesising ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)METHODS: We used the comparative risk assessment framework developed for previous iterations of GBD to estimate levels and trends in exposure, attributable deaths, and attributable disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs), ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)Background Healthy life expectancy (HALE) and disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) provide summary measures of health across geographies and time that can inform assessments of epidemiological patterns and health system ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)METHODS: We used results from the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study 2016 for all-cause mortality, cause-specific mortality, and non-fatal disease burden to derive HALE and DALYs by sex for 195 ...