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Surgical treatment of shoulder instability in Norway. The Norwegian Shoulder Instability Register
(Doctoral thesis, 2016-02-12)Shoulder dislocation affects approximately 1300 person per year in Norway. The dislocation is normally caused by a fall on the outstretched arm. Many of the patients develop chronic recurrent instability, where the shoulder ... -
Surgical treatment outcome of children with neural-tube defect: A prospective cohort study in a high volume center in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Introduction Prevalence of neural tube defects (NTD) is high thus many children are born with a neural tube defect in Addis Ababa, and surgical closure is a commonly performed procedure at the pediatric neurosurgical ... -
Surgical vs conservative treatment of medication-related osteonecrosis of the jaw—A complex systematic review and meta-analysis
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Objective The objective of this study was to compare the outcome of surgical and conservative treatment approaches for medication-related osteonecrosis of the jaw. Study Design Publications in Medline, The Cochrane ... -
Surveillance of antimicrobial resistance at a tertiary hospital in Tanzania
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2004-10-11)Background: Antimicrobial resistance is particularly harmful to infectious disease management in low-income countries since expensive second-line drugs are not readily available. The objective of this study was to implement ... -
Surveillance of molecular markers for antimalarial resistance in Zambia: Polymorphism of Pfkelch 13, Pfmdr1 and Pfdhfr/Pfdhps genes
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-12)Antimalarial resistance is an inevitable feature of control efforts and a key threat to achieving malaria elimination. Plasmodium falciparum, the deadliest of several species causing human malaria, has developed resistance ... -
Surveillance of multiple congenital anomalies; searching for new associations
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Many human teratogens are associated with a spectrum of congenital anomalies rather than a single defect, and therefore the identification of congenital anomalies occurring together more frequently than expected may improve ... -
The surveillance of patients hospitalised with COVID-19 in Norway, February 2020 – May 2022 : Systems comparisons, risk factors and clinical course
(Doctoral thesis, 2024-04-26)Bakgrunn: I Norge ble tre ulike system for overvåking av pasienter innlagt i sykehus med COVID-19 opprettet for å overvåke alvorligheten av pandemien. Ett var en aggregert, manuell innrapportering om belegg ved sykehusene, ... -
Survey of ENT services in sub-Saharan Africa: Little progress between 2009 and 2015
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017)Background: A 2009 survey of ENT, audiology, and speech therapy services and training opportunities in 18 Sub-Saharan African countries reported that the availability of services was extremely poor, the distribution of ... -
A survey of Ethiopian physicians’ experiences of bedside rationing: extensive resource scarcity, tough decisions and adverse consequences
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-10-14)Background Resource scarcity in health care is a universal challenge. In high-income settings, bedside rationing is commonly discussed and debated as a means to addressing scarcity. However, little is known about physicians’ ... -
A survey of occupational health in The Royal Norwegian Navy
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2008)Objective. The aim of this article is to describe possible risk factors in the work environment that can affect the health of staff of the Royal Norwegian Navy (RNoN). The article presents the main results from a subproject ... -
A survey of surgical team members' perceptions of near misses and attitudes towards Time Out protocols
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2013-10-09)Background: Medical errors are inherently of concern in modern health care. Although surgical errors as incorrect surgery (e.g., wrong patient, wrong site, or wrong procedure) are infrequent, they are devastating events ... -
A survey of total IgE reference intervals reported by Scandinavian and British medical laboratories – a need for harmonisation
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Objectives There appears to be marked discrepancies between total IgE reference intervals (RIs) in use by many laboratories and those recommended by published studies. The aim of this study was therefore to review total ... -
Survey-based Women Empowerment Index for Afghanistan (SWEI-A): An Explanatory and Confirmatory Factor Analyses
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)This study aimed to develop a country-specific index to measure women empowerment among married women aged 15–49 years in Afghanistan. The data from the 2015 Afghanistan demographic health survey (ADHS) was used to develop ... -
Survival According to Primary Tumor Location, Stage, and Treatment Patterns in Locoregional Gastroenteropancreatic High-grade Neuroendocrine Carcinomas
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Background: Although the gastrointestinal tract (including the pancreas, gastroenteropancreatic (GEP) is the most common site for extrapulmonary neuroendocrine carcinoma (NEC), the current treatment patterns of locoregional ... -
Survival after aortic root replacement with a stentless xenograft is determined by patient characteristics
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Objectives Our objective was to examine intermediate-term survival and reinterventions in unselected patients, stratified according to indication, who received a Freestyle (Medtronic Inc, Minneapolis, Minn) bioprosthesis ... -
Survival analysis of COVID-19 patients in Ethiopia: A hospital-based study
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Background COVID-19 is a global public health problem causing high mortality worldwide. This study aimed to assess time to death and predictors of mortality among patients hospitalized for COVID-19 in the Arsi zone treatment ... -
Survival and cause of death in multiple sclerosis: A 60-year longitudinal population study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017)Objective: Survival and causes of death (COD) in multiple sclerosis (MS) provide ultimate endpoints. We aimed to investigate survival and COD in a 60-year population-based MS cohort compared with the general population. ... -
Survival and costs of colorectal cancer treatment and effects of changing treatment strategies: a model approach
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)New and emerging advances in colorectal cancer (CRC) treatment combined with limited healthcare resources highlight the need for detailed decision-analytic models to evaluate costs, survival and quality-adjusted life years. ... -
Survival and death causes of patients with giant cell arteritis in Western Norway 1972-2012: a retrospective cohort study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-06-25)Background: Our objective was to determine the survival and causes of death in a large and well-characterized cohort of patients with giant cell arteritis (GCA). Methods: This is a hospital-based, retrospective, observational ... -
The survival gap between young and older patients after surgical resection for colorectal cancer remains largely based on early mortality: A EURECCA comparison of four European countries.
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Background: A decade ago, it was demonstrated that the difference in survival between older patients and younger patients with colorectal cancer (CRC) was mainly due to mortality in the first postoperative year. Over the ...