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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)Introduction: Assessment of ethics issues is an important part of health technology assessments (HTA). However, in terms of existence of quality assessment tools, ethics for HTA is methodologically underdeveloped in ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)Background and Objectives: Adolescence is a time of substantial change, bringing about the transition from childhood into adulthood. Patterns for future health behaviors are developed and continue into adult life. Little ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)Background Weak health systems pose many barriers to effective tuberculosis (TB) control. This study aimed at exploring health worker’s and TB control program coordinator’s perspectives on health systems challenges facing ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2015)Objective: The objective was to explore manager experiences using the RAFAELA system. Background: The RAFAELA system was developed in Finland during the 1990s to create a work situation where patients’ care needs were ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)Objectives To compare the quality of care—using unplanned acute hospital readmissions as a quality measure—among patients treated at private for-profit hospitals (PFPs), private non-profit hospitals (PNPs) and public ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)Background Making use of good, evidence based routines, for management of normal childbirth is essential to ensure quality of care and prevent, identify and manage complications if they occur. Two essential ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2010)Background In recent decades immigration to Norway from Asia, Africa and Eastern Europe has increased rapidly. The aim of this study was to assess the quality of care for type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2014)Background Osteoarthritis (OA) is one of the most common causes of pain and disability in the adult population. Several studies have documented discordance between general practioners (GP) practice and ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2014)Background QuantiFERON-TB Gold In-Tube® (QFT-GIT) test is used for the diagnosis of latent tuberculosis (TB) infection. Besides, QFT-GIT test could allow tracking changes in immune response among TB patients ...
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(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2016)This thesis is investigating if the risk of childhood leukemia and cancer in the central nervous system (CNS) increases in relation to high levels of indoor radon concentrations at home or low parental socioeconomic status. ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)Background Conducting systematic reviews is time-consuming but crucial to construct evidence-based patient decision aids, clinical practice guidelines and decision analyses. New methods might enable ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2013)Background Self-efficacy is needed for effectuating lifestyle changes, and it is therefore an important target related to health. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the psychometric properties of the ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)Background The concept of hope has been measured using the Herth Hope Index (HHI) in different samples, but varying factor structures comprising different items from the HHI have been reported. Therefore, ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2014)Background: The prevalence of morbid obesity is an increasing health problem in most parts of the world and is related to lower quality of life. Sense of coherence, or the perception that the world is meaningful and ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)Background Governments are facing tough choices about whether to fund new, promising but highly expensive drugs within the public healthcare system. Decisions that some drugs are not sufficiently beneficial ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)Objective: To explore reasons for attending a general emergency outpatient clinic versus a regular general practitioner (RGP). Design: Cross-sectional study using a multilingual anonymous questionnaire. Setting: Native ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)Aim: It has previously been shown that breastfeeding may reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes in mothers with recent gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM). This study compared the cessation of predominant breastfeeding in ...
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(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2014)Purpose. The overall aim of this thesis was to examine recovery of physical functioning in patients with hip osteoarthritis (OA) during the first year after total hip arthroplasty (THA). The specific aims were 1) to examine ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)Background: Acute intermittent porphyria (AIP) is an inherited disorder of haem metabolism characterized by life‐threatening acute neurovisceral attacks due to the induction of hepatic δ‐aminolevulinic acid synthase 1 ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)Purpose: The objective of this study was to explore the volunteers’ experiences with and perspectives on the community event-based surveillance system in Sierra Leone. Methods and materials: 62 volunteers from 14 different ...