PhD theses (HV)
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Municipal postnatal healthcare : The perspectives of parents and nurses
(PhD thesis UiS;, Doctoral thesis, 2023)Background: Postnatal healthcare is a key component of the maternal, newborn and childcare continuum and contributes to improved health outcomes for women, babies and their families in the first six weeks after birth. The ... -
Succeeding with Rapid Response Systems in Hospitals: A mixed methods research project
(PhD thesis UiS;, Doctoral thesis, 2023)Background: Modern hospital care is both advanced and complicated with multiple opportunities for medical errors including serious adverse events. Rapid Response Systems (RRSs) have been implemented in hospitals globally ... -
Bridging the clinical experience gap: –using simulation to improve ventilation performance during neonatal resuscitation in a high-resource setting
(PhD thesis UiS;, Doctoral thesis, 2023)Background: Up to 10% of newborn babies need help to establish regular breathing at birth. Those who do breathe, and who are not fortunate enough to receive prompt and effective help, will die. The burden of neonatal ... -
Simulation-based training and data-guided feedback for neonatal resuscitation in rural Tanzania
(PhD thesis UiS;, Doctoral thesis, 2023)Summary Background: Globally, 1.4 million newborns die every year due to intrapartum related events and fresh stillbirths, nearly all occurring in low and middle-income countries. Many of these deaths could be prevented ... -
Psychosocial and physical factors of importance for recovery from curative colorectal cancer surgery among persons ≥80 years old: a mixed method study
(PhD thesis UiS;, Doctoral thesis, 2023-06)Background: Colorectal cancer is the third most common cancer worldwide. Colorectal cancer can be a fatal disease accompanied by suffering if untreated. Surgery is the mainstay for cure and is considered safe for patients ... -
Clinical observation of deteriorating frail older patients: Improving the competence of homecare professionals
(PhD thesis UiS;705, Doctoral thesis, 2023-08)Introduction: Homecare services are providing care to an increasing number of frail older patients with complex care needs. These patients are in a vulnerable state and have an increased risk of deterioration, and the ... -
Clinical and neuroimaging prognostic markers in Alzheimer's Disease and Lewy Body Dementia: The role of muscle status and nutrition
(PhD thesis UiS;, Doctoral thesis, 2023)Alzheimer's Disease and Lewy body dementia are the two most common neurodegenerative dementias. They have a progressive course with devastating consequences for the people living with these diseases and their families, but ... -
Nursing students’ clinical learning: Combining simulation training with nursing home practice
(PhD thesis UiS;, Doctoral thesis, 2023-02)Background: The traditional clinical practice model for first-year nursing students in Norwegian nursing education is placement in nursing homes for six to eight weeks supervised by on-site registered nurses. In nursing ... -
National implementation of whole crew on-call in situ simulation in Norwegian HEMS; feasibility, challenges, and possibilities : An implementation study
(PhD thesis UiS;, Doctoral thesis, 2022-10)This research project is a PhD-project on implementing medical orientated in situ simulation for on-call air ambulance crews in Norway, and the alternative use of “observed clinical practise” in real-life missions when ... -
Voluntary and involuntary hospitalizations in acute psychiatric wards in Norway
(PhD thesis UiS;, Doctoral thesis, 2022-10)ENGLISH ABSTRACT Background and aim The use of coercion in mental health care services has been widely debated, and it is agreed that the level of coercive hospitalizations should be as low as possible. In 2004-2005, ... -
Resuscitation of term and near-term newborns in low-resourced settings : Studies of positive end-expiratory pressure and expired CO2 during bag-mask ventilation at birth
(PhD thesis UiS;, Doctoral thesis, 2021)Background: An estimated 0.7 million newborns die due to perinatal asphyxia each year, most are born at or near term. The major burden of preventable newborn deaths occur in low-resourced settings. A self-inflating bag is ... -
Interprofessional Teamwork in Hospital Units: A human factors approach to patient safety
(PhD thesis UiS;, Doctoral thesis, 2022)Introduction Human factors, such as teamwork and communication, have an important impact on patient safety in hospitals. Hospitals have a patient safety problem, with more than every 10th patient experiencing errors and ... -
Psychotic depression and suicide risk - a mixed methods study
(PhD thesis UiS;, Doctoral thesis, 2022)Background The reasons behind suicide are multifactorial, complex, and poorly understood. Despite decades of research, suicide rates remain elevated both during hospitalization as well as shortly after discharge. Clinically ... -
Deep learning for an improved diagnostic pathway of prostate cancer in a small multi-parametric magnetic resonance data regime
(PhD thesis UiS;, Doctoral thesis, 2022-06)Prostate Cancer (PCa) is the second most commonly diagnosed cancer among men, with an estimated incidence of 1.3 million new cases worldwide in 2018. The current diagnostic pathway of PCa relies on prostate-specific antigen ... -
Alcohol-related Problems and Sick Leave. Do Attitudes towards Drinking matter?
(PhD thesis UiS;, Doctoral thesis, 2022-05)Background: Drinking alcohol is integrated into people’s social- and work lives. Drinking attitudes and norms stand out as significant predictors of drinking alcohol but few studies have been focused on working populations. ... -
Interactions between platelets and hematopoietic cells
(PhD thesis UiS;, Doctoral thesis, 2022-04)In addition to their primary role in hemostasis, platelets are increasingly recognized as important participants in numerous biological processes. Their ability to adhere to and communicate with different immune cells, ... -
Exploring the role of managers in quality and safety work in nursing homes and homecare services: A multiple case study
(PhD thesis UiS;, Doctoral thesis, 2022)Introduction: Working on quality and safety in nursing home and homecare services is difficult. Ever-increasing demands from an ageing population and political pressure to keep patients at home are among the challenges ... -
Patient safety and feeling of safety when telecare is used among home-dwelling older adults : A qualitative study
(PhD thesis UiS;, Doctoral thesis, 2022-03)Background The use of telecare technologies is regarded as an important measure in meeting future healthcare challenges, and is a major focus area both in Norway and internationally. With the help of telecare, older ... -
The prevalence, implications, and clinical course of pregnancy-related pelvic girdle pain
(PhD thesis UiS;, Doctoral thesis, 2021-12)Background Pelvic girdle pain (PGP) during pregnancy is common and, indeed, has always been considered normal. It is commonly associated with moderate to severe pain that impairs everyday activities such as getting up ... -
Optimizing Helping Babies Breathe implementation in a resource limited setting to improve perinatal outcome
(PhD thesis UiS;, Doctoral thesis, 2021-09)Globally, deaths around the time of birth are unacceptably high of which there are about 2.7 million neonatal deaths and 2.6 million stillborn annually. Perinatal mortality accounts for deaths after 28 weeks of gestation ...
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