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Financial risk of seeking maternal and neonatal healthcare in southern Ethiopia: a cohort study of rural households
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Introduction Ethiopian households’ out-of-pocket healthcare payments constitute one-third of the national healthcare budget and are higher than the global and low-income countries average, and even the global target. Such ... -
Financial risk protection at the bedside: How Ethiopian physicians try to minimize out-of-pocket health expenditures
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-02-12)Background: Out-of-pocket health expenditures can pose major financial risks, create access-barriers and drive patients and families into poverty. Little is known about physicians’ role in financial protection of patients ... -
Financial risks of care seeking for malaria by rural households in Jimma Zone, Oromia Region, Southwest Ethiopia: a cross-sectional study
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Objectives Despite major progress in the prevention and control of malaria in recent years, the disease remains a major cause of morbidity in Ethiopia. Malaria also imposes substantial socioeconomic costs on households. ... -
“Finding oneself after critical illness”: voices from the remission society
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)The number of people who survive critical illness is increasing. In parallel, a growing body of literature reveals a broad range of side-effects following intensive care treatment. Today, more attention is needed to improve ... -
“Finding stability”. Experienced and measured function in patients undergoing surgery for patellar instability
(Doctoral thesis, 2023-12-15)Bakgrunn: Vurdering av knefunksjon er helt sentralt for diagnostikk, behandling og oppfølging av pasienter med ulike kneledds lidelser. Derfor er det behov for gyldige og pålitelige måleverktøy, inkludert pasientrapporterte ... -
Finding ways to carry on: stories of vulnerability in chronic illness
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Purpose: In this study, we explore the lived experiences of chronic illness in four groups of patients; children with asthma, adolescents with diabetes, young adults with depression, and adult patients with chronic, ... -
A Fine Balance: Drug Use in Norwegian Nursing Homes
(Doctoral thesis, 2018-09-11)Background: Today’s nursing home patients are old, fragile and suffer from multiple conditions. Consequently, they use on average seven different drugs each day. The total burden of these factors increases the vulnerability ... -
Fine mapping of genetic susceptibility loci for melanoma reveals a mixture of single variant and multiple variant regions
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-08-14)At least 17 genomic regions are established as harboring melanoma susceptibility variants, in most instances with genome-wide levels of significance and replication in independent samples. Based on genome-wide single ... -
Fine mapping of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) in myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) suggests involvement of both HLA class I and class II loci
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)The etiology of myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) is unknown, but involvement of the immune system is one of the proposed underlying mechanisms. Human leukocyte antigen (HLA) associations are ... -
Fine needle aspirates of kidneys: A promising tool for RNA sequencing in native and transplanted kidneys
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018-09-18)Background: Transcriptome analysis is emerging as emerging as a promising tool to enhance precision of diagnosis and monitoring in solid organ transplantation. Clinical progress has however been hampered by the current ... -
Fingolimod does not enhance cerebellar remyelination in the cuprizone model
(Journal article, 2015-08)Fingolimod (FTY720) is approved for treatment of relapsing–remitting multiple sclerosis. In vitro studies have found that fingolimod stimulates remyelination in cerebellar slices, but in vivo animal studies have not detected ... -
Finite element analysis of mitral valve annuloplasty in Barlow's disease
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Barlow’s Disease affects the entire mitral valve apparatus causing mitral regurgitation. Standard annuloplasty procedures lead to an average of 55% annular area reduction of the end diastolic pre-operative annular area in ... -
First identification of bla NDM-5 producing Escherichia coli from neonates and a HIV infected adult in Tanzania
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Introduction. Carbapenem-resistant members of the family Enterobacteriaceae are emerging as a global public-health threat and cause substantial challenges in clinical practice. Gap Statement. There is a need for increased ... -
First in-mouse development and application of a surgically relevant xenograft model of ovarian carcinoma
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-03-04)Purpose: Preclinical models of epithelial ovarian cancer have not been exploited to evaluate the clinical standard combination therapy of surgical debulking with follow-up chemotherapy. As surgery is critical to patient ... -
First responder resuscitation teams in a rural Norwegian community: sustainability and self-reports of meaningfulness, stress and mastering
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2010-05-04)Background: Training of lay first responder personnel situated closer to the potential victims than medical professionals is a strategy potentially capable of shortening the interval between collapse and start of cardiopulmonary ... -
The first vanE-type vancomycin resistant Enterococcus faecalis isolates in Norway – phenotypic and molecular characteristics
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Objectives We aimed to characterize the vanE cluster and its genetic support in the first Norwegian vanE-type isolates and assess genetic relatedness to other vanE isolates. Methods Two vanE-type vancomycin resistant ... -
A first-level customization study of SAPS II with Norwegian Intensive Care and Pandemic Registry (NIPaR) data
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Background: Severity scores and mortality prediction models (MPMs) are important tools for benchmarking and stratification in the intensive care unit (ICU) and need to be regularly updated using data from a local and ... -
Fish oil and krill oil differentially modify the liver and brain lipidome when fed to mice
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-08-11)Background: Marine food is an important source of omega-3 fatty acids with beneficial health effects. Oils from marine organisms have different fatty acid composition and differ in their molecular composition. Fish oil ... -
Fish oil and krill oil supplementations differentially regulate lipid catabolic and synthetic pathways in mice
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-04-27)Background: Marine derived oils are rich in long-chain polyunsaturated omega-3 fatty acids, in particular eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), which have long been associated with health promoting ... -
A fish protein hydrolysate alters fatty acid composition in liver and adipose tissue and increases plasma carnitine levels in a mouse model of chronic inflammation
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2013-10-07)Background: There is growing evidence that fish protein hydrolysate (FPH) diets affect mitochondrial fatty acid metabolism in animals. The aim of the study was to determine if FPH could influence fatty acid metabolism and ...