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Stretching the Comfort Zone: Using Early Clinical Contact to Influence Professional Identity Formation in Medical Students
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-04-26)Purpose: To explore first-year medical students’ affective reactions to intimate encounters with severely sick patients in their homes, within a curricular innovation targeting the development of a patient-centered ... -
Striving for a life worth living: stroke survivors' experiences of home rehabilitation
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-02-04)Background: For mild-to-moderate stroke survivors, early supported discharge from hospital, followed by home rehabilitation is preferred over conventional care. How this mode of service contributes to recovery from stroke ... -
Striving for a life worth living: stroke survivors’ experiences of home rehabilitation
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015)Background: For mild-to-moderate stroke survivors, early supported discharge from hospital, followed by home rehabilitation is preferred over conventional care. How this mode of service contributes to recovery from stroke ... -
Striving for a safe ground—A lifeworld approach of family members' experiences of the critical illness trajectory
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Aims and Objectives To explore the experiences of family members after they have lived through a close one's illness trajectory starting with critical illness and intensive care treatment, throughout hospitalisation and ... -
Stroke identification by criteria based dispatch - a register based study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018-01)Background: Rapid and precise dispatch of resources is a key element in pre‐hospital emergency medicine. Emergency medical communication centres (EMCCs) dispatch resources based on protocols and guidelines, balancing the ... -
Stroke Mimics on the Stroke Unit – Temporal trends 2008–2017 at a large Norwegian university hospital
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Objectives: The objective was to quantify temporal trends in stroke mimics (SM) admissions relative to cerebrovascular accidents (CVA), incidence of hospitalized SMs and characterize the SM case-mix at a general hospital's ... -
Stroke rehabilitation in the context of early supported discharge. Quantitative and qualitative aspects of daily life after mild-to-moderate stroke
(Doctoral thesis, 2015-11-12)Stroke affects mainly elderly people and is a major cause of disability worldwide. A primary focus in rehabilitation is stroke survivors’ ability to engage in daily life. Current evidence supports Early Supported Discharge ... -
Stroke severity quantification by critical care physicians in a mobile stroke unit
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Background Cerebral revascularization in acute stroke requires robust diagnostic tools close to symptom onset. The quantitative National Institute of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) is widely used in-hospital, whereas shorter ... -
Stroke survival and the impact of geographic proximity to family members: A population-based cohort study
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Introduction Familial support may be important for post-stroke survival. Objective To determine if geographical proximity between stroke survivors and their family members, i.e having a spouse/partner or distance to ... -
Strong effects of home-based voluntary HIV counselling and testing on acceptance and equity: A cluster randomised trial in Zambia
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2013-06)Home-based voluntary HIV counselling and testing (HB-VCT) has been reported to have a high uptake, but it has not been rigorously evaluated. We designed a model for HB-VCT appropriate for wider scale-up, and investigated ... -
Study protocol for Norwegian Psychomotor Physiotherapy versus Cognitive Patient Education in combination with active individualized physiotherapy in patients with long-lasting musculoskeletal pain – a randomized controlled trial
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016-08-05)Background: Norwegian Psychomotor Physiotherapy (NPMP) has been an established treatment approach for more than 50 years, although mostly in the Scandinavian countries, and is usually applied to patients with widespread ... -
Styring og kontroll med kvalitet i helseforetak: med fokus på helseforetaksstyrets arbeid
(Master thesis, 2014)Background: The quality, quantity and funding of the public specialist health enterprises, are determined by Stortinget (parliament) and the Government. The ministry of health work out the specifics and pass the mission ... -
Styringstiltak og rettferdighet i helse- og omsorgstjenesten: samspill og spenninger
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)I denne kommentar-artikkelen vil jeg rette oppmerksomheten mot strukturelle utfordringer knyttet til rettferdig fordeling av helse- og omsorgstjenester i kommunene. Disse utfordringene kan oppstå i samspillet mellom ulike ... -
Subacromial smertesyndrom. Praktisk intervensjon med mobilisering, veiledet trening og hjemmetrening. Et Single Subjekt Design
(Master thesis, 2016-10-31)Background: There is evidence from several RCT studies that joint mobilization combined with exercise is more effective treatment in reducing pain in subacromial pain syndrome than exercise alone. Research question: Can ... -
Subjective and objective sleep among air ambulance personnel
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)The present study aimed to investigate the effects of shift work on sleep among pilots and Helicopter Emergency Medical Service crew members (HCM) in the Norwegian Air Ambulance. Sleep was assessed by diaries and actigraphy ... -
Subjective health complaints predict functional outcome six months after stroke
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017-02)Objectives: Cerebrovascular stroke is a main cause of lasting disability in older age, and initial stroke severity has been established as a main determinant for the degree of functional loss. In this study, we searched ... -
Subjective symptoms and serum methadone concentrations: what should guide dose adjustments in methadone maintenance treatment? A naturalistic cohort study from Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Background: There is little evidence-based guidance on how to optimize methadone dosages among patients with opioid addiction undergoing methadone maintenance treatment (MMT). This study aims to investigate whether ... -
Substance use and symptoms of mental health disorders: a prospective cohort of patients with severe substance use disorders in Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021-02-27)Background:There is high co-occurrence of substance use disorders (SUD) and mental health disorders. We aimedto assess impact of substance use patterns and sociodemographic factors on mental health distress using the ... -
Substituted decision making and the dispositional choice account
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)There are two main ways of understanding the function of surrogate decision making in a legal context: the Best Interests Standard and the Substituted Judgment Standard. First, we will argue that the Best Interests Standard ... -
Successes and challenges of the national programme for the prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission (PMTCT) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Implementation and impact
(Doctoral thesis, 2012-01-20)Mother-to-child HIV transmission (MTCT) is the main source of HIV infection among children under the age of 15. The majority of these transmissions occur in utero and during the intra-partum period and are associated with ...