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Development and validation of patients' surgical safety checklist
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Background: Poor uptake and understanding of critical perioperative information represent a major safety risk for surgical patients. Implementing a patient-driven surgical safety checklist might enhance the way critical ... -
Development and validation of surgical Patients’ own Safety Checklist – PASC : A new tool to involve patients in safety
(Doctoral thesis, 2022-10-07)Bakgrunn: Sjekklister for bruk av kirurgisk helsepersonell er vist å ha forbedret teamarbeid og pasientsikkerhet. Fremdeles opplever et stort antall pasienter feil som kunne ha vært forebygget. Verdenshelseorganisasjons ... -
Development of an international Core Outcome Set (COS) for best care for the dying person: study protocol
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-11-30)Background: In contrast to typical measures employed to assess outcomes in healthcare such as mortality or recovery rates, it is difficult to define which specific outcomes of care are the most important in caring for dying ... -
Development of an internet-delivered cognitive behavioral therapy program for use in combination with exercise therapy and education by patients at increased risk of chronic pain following total knee arthroplasty
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Background Approximately 20% of patients experience chronic pain after total knee arthroplasty (TKA). Due to the growing number of TKA procedures, this will affect an increasing number of people worldwide. Catastrophic ... -
Development of and Gathering Validity Evidence for a Theoretical Test in Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) is an imaging modality applied in a broad field of medical specialties for diagnostic uses, guidance during biopsy procedures and ablation therapies and sonoporation therapy. Appropriate ... -
Device Failure and Adverse Events Related to Single-use and Reusable Flexible Ureteroscopes: Findings and New Insights From an 11-Year Analysis of the Manufacturer and User Facility Device Experience Database
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Objective To catalog and characterize device failures and adverse events related to flexible ureteroscopes from a national database. Methods Search of the Manufacturer User and Facility Device Experience database ... -
Diabetic diarrhoea: a study on gastrointestinal motility, pH levels and autonomic function
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Background Chronic diarrhoea is a common, but poorly investigated diabetes complication. Autonomic neuropathy is a leading pathophysiological theory founded on old, small studies. Studies of gastrointestinal motility and ... -
Diabetic gastroenteropathy examined with wireless motility capsule
(Doctoral thesis, 2022-03-11)Background Diabetic gastroenteropathy may affect all parts of the gastrointestinal tract. Despite being prevalent, knowledge is limited and treatment often generalised and unsatisfactory. To deliver personalised treatment, ... -
Diabetisk ketoacidose ved bruk av SGLT2-hemmer – en pasientserie
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Bakgrunn: Hemmere av natriumglukose-kotransportør 2 (SGLT2-hemmere) benyttes i økende grad ved diabetes type 2. Resultater fra tidligere studier tyder på en økt forekomst av diabetisk ketoacidose ved bruk av disse ... -
Diagnosing Schizophrenia from Activity Records using Hidden Markov Model Parameters
(Chapter, 2021)The diagnosis of Schizophrenia is mainly based on qualitative characteristics. With the usage of portable devices which measure activity of humans, the diagnosis of Schizophrenia can be enriched through quantitative features. ... -
Diagnosis and therapy of myasthenia gravis—the patients’ perspective: a cross-sectional study
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)The survey aimed to explore patients’ perspectives with myasthenia gravis (MG) toward the diagnosis made and the therapy used to treat MG. The survey was conducted with a quantitative method, using the CAWI technique. A ... -
Diagnostic accuracy of a short endoscopic secretin test in patients with cystic fibrosis
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-02-16)Objective: Short endoscopic secretin tests for exocrine pancreatic function are not properly evaluated in cystic fibrosis (CF). Methods: Patients with CF and healthy controls (HCs) underwent endoscopic collection of duodenal ... -
Diagnostic Accuracy of Transabdominal Ultrasound and Computed Tomography in Chronic Pancreatitis: A Head-to-Head Comparison
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Purpose Computed tomography (CT) is the most used imaging modality for diagnosing chronic pancreatitis (CP), but advances in transabdominal ultrasound (US) technology have given US a position as a viable alternative. We ... -
Diagnostic accuracy of transabdominal ultrasound in chronic pancreatitis
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017-04)The performance of transabdominal ultrasound (US) in chronic pancreatitis (CP) following the advances in US technology made during recent decades has not been explored. Our aim in this prospective study was to evaluate the ... -
The diagnostic differentiation challenge in acute appendicitis: How to distinguish between uncomplicated and complicated appendicitis in adults
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022-07-15)Background: How to best define, diagnose and differentiate uncomplicated from complicated acute appendicitis remains debated. Hence, the aim of this review was to present an overview of the current knowledge and emerging ... -
Diagnostic Performance of Novel Troponin Algorithms for the Rule-Out of Non-ST-Elevation Acute Coronary Syndrome
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Background The European Society of Cardiology (ESC) rule-out algorithms use cutoffs optimized for exclusion of non-ST elevation myocardial infarction (NSTEMI). We investigated these and several novel algorithms for the ... -
Diagnostic utility of oropharyngeal swabs as an alternative to lower respiratory tract samples for PCR-based syndromic testing in patients with community-acquired pneumonia
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Syndromic PCR-based analysis of lower respiratory tract (LRT) samples in patients with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) improves the bacterial yield and time-to-results compared to culture-based methods. However, obtaining ... -
Diagnostic value of serum biomarkers FGF21 and GDF15 compared to muscle sample in mitochondrial disease
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)The aim of this study was to compare the value of serum biomarkers, fibroblast growth factor 21 (FGF21) and growth differentiation factor 15 (GDF15), with histological analysis of muscle in the diagnosis of mitochondrial ... -
Dialectical behavioral therapy-based group treatment versus treatment as usual for adults with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder: a multicenter randomized controlled trial
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Background Studies on structured skills training groups have indicated beneficial, although still inconclusive, effects on core symptoms of ADHD in adults. This trial examined effects of Dialectical Behavioral Therapy-based ...