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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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(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, 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)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 ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)Background: How long one lives, how many years of life are spent in good and poor health, and how the population's state of health and leading causes of disability change over time all have implications for policy, planning, ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)BACKGROUND: As mortality rates decline, life expectancy increases, and populations age, non-fatal outcomes of diseases and injuries are becoming a larger component of the global burden of disease. The Global Burden of ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)Background Improving survival and extending the longevity of life for all populations requires timely, robust evidence on local mortality levels and trends. The Global Burden of Disease 2015 Study (GBD 2015) provides a ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)The purpose of the study is to explore what it entails for nurses to perform good work. It may be challenging to maintain good work when demands of efficiency threaten professional and ethical ideals. How nurses describe ...