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Improving ambulance coverage in a mixed urban-rural region in Norway using mathematical modeling
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-04)Background Ambulance services play a crucial role in providing pre-hospital emergency care. In order to ensure quick responses, the location of the bases, and the distribution of available ambulances among these bases, ... -
Inhaled nitric oxide as temporary respiratory stabilization in patients with COVID-19 related respiratory failure (INOCOV): Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Background In March 2020, WHO announced the COVID-19 a pandemic and a major global public health emergency. Mortality from COVID-19 is rapidly increasing globally, with acute respiratory failure as the predominant cause ... -
Key topics in pandemic health risk communication: A qualitative study of expert opinions and knowledge
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Background Science communication can provide people with more accurate information on pandemic health risks by translating complex scientific topics into language that helps people make more informed choices on how to ... -
Potential causes of early death among admitted newborns in a rural Tanzanian hospital
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-10)Background Approximately 40,000 newborns die each year in Tanzania. Regional differences in outcome are common. Reviewing current local data, as well as defining potential causal pathways leading to death are urgently ... -
Preparedness for colorectal cancer surgery and recovery through a person-centred information and communication intervention - A quasi-experimental longitudinal design
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)To meet patients’ information and communication needs over time in order to improve their recovery is particularly challenging for patients undergoing cancer surgery. The aim of the study was to evaluate whether an ... -
A systematic review and meta-analysis uncovering the relationship between alcohol consumption and sickness absence. When type of design, data, and sickness absence make a difference
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Aim Earlier research has revealed a strong relationship between alcohol use and sickness absence. The aim of this review was to explore and uncover this relationship by looking at differences in type of design (cross-sectional ... -
The trigger-information-response model: Exploring health literacy during the first six months following a kidney transplantation
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-10)The main objective of this study was to explore how kidney transplant recipients find, understand, and use health information, and make decisions about their health—also known as health literacy. Kidney transplant recipients ... -
Time spent by hospital personnel on drug changes: A time and motion study from an inand outpatient hospital setting
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Introduction Medicines used at Danish public hospitals are purchased through tendering. Together with drug shortage, tendering result in drug changes, known to compromise patient safety, increase medicine errors and to ... -
A treatment strategy for meeting life as it is. Patients' and therapists' experiences of brief therapy in a district psychiatric centre: A qualitative study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-10)Abstract Background: Young adults increasingly seek help for mental health problems. In 2016, a district psychiatric centre in Norway started a brief treatment program to provide early and effective help for moderate ... -
Utopia for Norwegian helicopter emergency medical services: Estimating the number of bases needed to radically bring down response times, and lives needed to be saved for cost effectiveness
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023-03)Objectives Helicopter Emergency Medical Services (HEMS) throughout Europe are generally on scene within 10–15 minutes. In Norway, however, with its 13 HEMS bases, only 75% of the population can currently be reached within ... -
Who reported having a high-strain job, low strain job, active job and passive job? The WIRUS screening study
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-12)Objective The Job Demands and Control model classifies job types as active, passive, low-strain or high-strain, based on a combination of job demands and control. While studies have shown high-strain jobs to have adverse ...