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Where Are the Newly Diagnosed HIV Positives in Kenya? Time to Consider Geo-Spatially Guided Targeting at a Finer Scale to Reach the “First 90”
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Background: The UNAIDS 90-90-90 Fast-Track targets provide a framework for assessing coverage of HIV testing services (HTS) and awareness of HIV status – the “first 90.” In Kenya, the bulk of HIV testing targets are aligned ... -
Which factors increase informal care hours and societal costs among caregivers of people with dementia? A systematic review of Resource Utilization in Dementia (RUD)
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Background Nearly 19 million people across OECD countries are living with dementia, and millions of family caregivers are affected by the disease. The costs of informal care are estimated to represent 40–75% of the total ... -
White Matter Hyperintensities and the Course of Depressive Symptoms in Elderly People with Mild Dementia
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2012)Objectives: To explore the relationship between white matter hyperintensities (WMH) and the prevalence and course of depressive symptoms in mild Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and Lewy body dementia. Design: This is a prospective ... -
White matter microstructural differences between hallucinating and non-hallucinating schizophrenia spectrum patients
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)The relation between auditory verbal hallucinations (AVH) and white matter has been studied, but results are still inconsistent. This inconsistency may be related to having only a single time-point of AVH assessment in ... -
Who benefits from increased service utilisation? Examining the distributional effects of payment for performance in Tanzania
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018-01-29)Background: Payment for performance (P4P) strategies, which provide financial incentives to health workers and/or facilities for reaching pre-defined performance targets, can improve healthcare utilisation and quality. P4P ... -
Who gets the ventilator? A multicentre survey of intensivists' opinions of triage during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Background The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a shortage of intensive care resources. Intensivists' opinion of triage and ventilator allocation during the COVID-19 pandemic is not well described. Methods This was a ... -
Who Has Mycobacterial Disease? A Cross Sectional Study in Agropastoral Communities in Tanzania
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016-05-23)Objective: To determine and describe clinical symptoms, demographic characteristics and environmental exposures as determinants of pulmonary mycobacterial diseases among patients examined for tuberculosis in agropastoral ... -
WHO multicentre study for the development of growth standards from fetal life to childhood: the fetal component
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-05-02)Background: In 2006 WHO presented the infant and child growth charts suggested for universal application. However, major determinants for perinatal outcomes and postnatal growth are laid down during antenatal development. ... -
Who takes the medicine? Adherence to antiretroviral therapy in Southern Ethiopia
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-10-29)Background: Treatment adherence is critical for the success of antiretroviral therapy (ART) for people living with HIV. There is limited representative information on ART drug adherence and its associated factors from ... -
A whole blood based resuscitation strategy in civilian medical services: Experience from a Norwegian hospital in the period 2017–2020
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Background: Civilian and military guidelines recommend early balanced transfusion to patients with life-threatening bleeding. Low titer group O whole blood was introduced as the primary blood product for resuscitation of ... -
Whole blood in prehospital damage control resuscitation : -Safety, feasibility, and logistics
(Doctoral thesis, 2023-06-14)Bakgrunn De siste tiårene har det vært et paradigmeskifte i behandlingen av blødningsjokk. Skadebegrensende resuscitering har som hensikt å understøtte hemostatisk evne hos pasienten og reversere og dempe konsekvensene ... -
Whole genome sequencing of clinical isolates of Giardia lamblia
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-10-29)Clinical isolates from protozoan parasites such as Giardia lamblia are at present practically impossible to culture. By using simple cyst purification methods, we show that Giardia whole genome sequencing of clinical stool ... -
Whole-genome sequencing identifies new candidate genes for nonobstructive azoospermia
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Background: Genetic causes that lead to spermatogenetic failure in patients with nonobstructive azoospermia (NOA) have not been yet completely established. Objective: To identify low-frequency NOA-associated single ... -
Whole-Volume Tumor MRI Radiomics for Prognostic Modeling in Endometrial Cancer
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Background In endometrial cancer (EC), preoperative pelvic MRI is recommended for local staging, while final tumor stage and grade are established by surgery and pathology. MRI‐based radiomic tumor profiling may aid in ... -
Why caretakers bypass Primary Health Care facilities for child care - a case from rural Tanzania
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2011-11-17)Background: Research on health care utilization in low income countries suggests that patients frequently bypass PHC facilities in favour of higher-level hospitals - despite substantial additional time and financial costs. ... -
Why do doctors in Norway choose general practice and remain there? A qualitative study about motivational experiences
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-05-12)Objective: To explore experiences motivating doctors to become and remain GPs. Design and contributors: Qualitative analysis of written responses from an open-ended question about motivational experiences posted on an ... -
Why do health workers in rural Tanzania prefer public sector employment?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2012-04-05)Background: Severe shortages of qualified health workers and geographical imbalances in the workforce in many low-income countries require the national health sector management to closely monitor and address issues related ... -
Why do some countries approve a cancer drug and others don’t?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-06)The term drug reimbursement describes the policy system that determines whether or not a drug is entitled to reimbursement within the healthcare system. Countries make different decisions regarding which cancer treatments ... -
Why several truths can be true
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016)In this paper, we offer a perspective on complementarity, acknowledging that it is not possible for human perception and cognition to grasp reality with unambiguous concepts or theories. Therefore, multiple concepts and ...