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Are MRI high-signal changes of alar and transverse ligaments in acute whiplash injury related to outcome?
(BioMed Central, 2010-11-11)
Background: Upper neck ligament high-signal changes on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) have been found in patients with whiplash-associated disorders (WAD) but also in non-injured controls. The clinical relevance of such ...
Can Electronic Tools Help Improve Nursing Home Quality?
(Hindawi, 2011)
Background: Nursing homes face challenges in the coming years due to the increased number of elderly. Quality will be under pressure, expectations of the services will rise, and clinical complexity will grow. New strategies ...
Age-dependent association between protein expression of the embryonic stem cell marker Cripto-1 and survival of glioblastoma patients
(Elsevier, 2013-12)
Exploring the re-emergence of embryonic signaling pathways may reveal important information for cancer biology. Nodal is a transforming growth factor-β (TGF-β)-related morphogen that plays a critical role during embryonic ...
Attributable fractions used for partitioning risk and evaluating disease prevention. Concepts, estimation, interpretation and presentation
(The University of Bergen, 2008-04-18)
Background:
In medical research some fundamental tasks are to study potential harmful exposures
that may give increased risk of getting some disease, potential beneficial treatments
that may increase chance of recovering ...
Psychometric properties of the Vertigo symptom scale – Short form
(BioMed Central, 2008-03-27)
Background
The aim of the study was to examine the psychometric properties of the Vertigo symptom scale – short form (VSS-SF), a condition-specific measure of dizziness, following translation of the scale into ...
Health related quality of life after extremely preterm birth: a matched controlled cohort study
(BioMed Central, 2010-05-23)
Background:
The majority of infants born before the last trimester now grow up. However, knowledge on subsequent health related quality of life (HRQoL) is scarce. We therefore aimed to compare HRQoL in children born ...
Severity of Giardia infection associated with post-infectious fatigue and abdominal symptoms two years after
(BioMed Central, 2009-12-15)
Background: A high rate of post-infectious fatigue and abdominal symptoms two years after a
waterborne outbreak of giardiasis in Bergen, Norway in 2004 has previously been reported. The
aim of this report was to identify ...
Patient safety in surgical environments: Cross-countries comparison of psychometric properties and results of the Norwegian version of the Hospital Survey on Patient Safety
(BioMed Central, 2010-09-22)
Background:
How hospital health care personnel perceive safety climate has been assessed in several countries by using the Hospital Survey on Patient Safety (HSOPS). Few studies have examined safety climate factors in ...
Atrial fibrillation and heart failure in seven nursing homes
(Sciedu Press, 2012-11-01)
Objectives: Previous research suggests that blood-thinning treatment for patients with atrial fibrillation as well as treatment for patients with heart failure is not adequate among the elderly. We tested this among long-term ...
Interferon (IFN)-γ-mediated inflammation and the kynurenine pathway in relation to bone mineral density: the Hordaland Health Study
(WileyBritish Society for Immunology, 2014-04-24)
The risk of osteoporosis increases in inflammatory disorders. In cell-mediated immune activation, interferon (IFN)-γ stimulates macrophage release of neopterin and increases the activity of indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase ...