Browsing Fakultet for medisin og helsevitenskap (MH) by Title
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Vacuum births and barriers to its use: An observational study in governmental hospitals in Sierra Leone
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Objectives Assisted vaginal births (AVD) can prevent unnecessary caesarean sections (CS). The number of CS is increasing rapidly in sub-Saharan Africa; these are still associated with high perioperative mortality rates. ... -
Vagotomy and Gastric Tumorigenesis
(Journal article, 2016)Vagotomy reduces gastric acid secretion and was therefore introduced as a surgical treatment for peptic ulcers in the 1970s. Later, it was replaced by acid reducing medication, such as histamine type 2 (H2) receptor ... -
Vagueness in Medicine: On Disciplinary Indistinctness, Fuzzy Phenomena, Vague Concepts, Uncertain Knowledge, and Fact-Value-Interaction
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)This article investigates five kinds of vagueness in medicine: disciplinary, ontological, conceptual, epistemic, and vagueness with respect to descriptive-prescriptive connections. First, medicine is a discipline with ... -
Vaksine mot Plasmodium Falciparum Malaria, hvor langt er vi kommet? - En litteraturstudie om arbeidet med immunisering
(Master thesis, 2017)Sammendrag Bakgrunn Malaria er en vektorbåren parasittsykdom, som smitter ved hjelp av mygg som tilhører myggslekten Anopheles. Det finnes fem plasmodium-parasitter som smitter til mennesker. Den farligste varianten heter ... -
Vakuumbehandling som ny postoperativ behandling etter pinch-graft hudtransplantasjon
(Master thesis, 2013)Bakgrunn: Hele 1-2% av befolkningen vil i løpet av livet bli rammet av sår som ikke heler normalt. Slike kroniske sår kan medføre dårligere livskvalitet, sykemeldinger og ulik grad av uførhet for pasienten. Utgifter til ... -
Valg av administrasjonsmåte til barn - Sykepleieres erfaringer («FAGARTIKKEL»)
(Bachelor thesis, 2023)Sammendrag Bakgrunn/hensikt Barn i akuttmottak kan ofte være engstelige og preget av smerter. I noen tilfeller vil det være behov for medikamentell behandling av smerte og engstelse hos disse barna. Sykepleiere administrerer ... -
Valg av modalitet ved karundersøkelser: CTA vs. MRA
(Bachelor thesis, 2021)Hensikt Hensikten med denne studien var å undersøke hva som legges til grunn for radiologens valg av modalitet ved karundersøkelser. Dette med hensyn til at radiografen, med ansvar for berettigelse og selvstendig utførelse ... -
Valg av modalitet ved karundersøkelser: CTA vs. MRA
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Valg om meg, tas ikke uten meg
(Bachelor thesis, 2020)Sammendrag Hensikten med denne studien var å få innsikt i hvilke erfaringer helsepersonell har med brukermedvirkning i arbeid med pasienter og pårørende. I Norge er brukermedvirkning en lovpålagt rettighet pasienter ... -
Valgdeltagelse blant personer med utviklingshemming
(Bachelor thesis, 2020)Tittel: Valgdeltagelse blant personer med utviklingshemming Problemstilling: Hvilke faktorer påvirker mulighetene for politisk deltagelse hos mennesker med utviklingshemming? Nøkkelord: utviklingshemming, valgdeltagelse, ... -
Valgdeltakelse blant personer med utviklingshemming
(Bachelor thesis, 2019)Denne bacheloroppgaven er resultatet av studier av internasjonal litteratur som omtaler valgdeltakelse blant personer med psykisk utviklingshemming. I de respektive kapitlene vil leseren finne mer utdypende informasjon om ... -
Validating the Five-ItemWorld Health Organization Well-Being Index
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Purpose: Research on the psychological well-being of caregivers of children diagnosed with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) suggests that the well-being of parents and caregivers has been negatively affected ... -
Validating the Working Alliance Inventory as a tool for measuring the Effectiveness of Coach-Athlete relationships in Sport
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)The current study investigates whether the Working Alliance Inventory (Blascovich, Mendes, Hunter, Lickel, & Kowai-Bell) and its factors bond, goal, and task are a suitable measurement for documenting the coach–athlete ... -
Validation and development of models using clinical, biochemical and ultrasound markers for predicting pre-eclampsia: an individual participant data meta-analysis
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Background: Pre-eclampsia is a leading cause of maternal and perinatal mortality and morbidity. Early identification of women at risk is needed to plan management. Objectives: To assess the performance of existing pre-eclampsia ... -
Validation in Indonesia of two published scores for mortality prediction after cardiac surgery
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Introduction: No mortality risk prediction model has previously been validated for cardiac surgery in Indonesia. This study aimed at validating the EuroSCORE II and Age Creatinine Ejection Fraction (ACEF) score as predictors ... -
Validation of a new smartphone app to assess neonatal jaundice in a Mexican population.
(Master thesis, 2019)Background: Neonatal jaundice is a common and temporary finding in newborns but severe cases can progress to bilirubin encephalopathy and kernicterus which may have serious or fatal consequences. Early detection can be ... -
Validation of a prediction model for post-chemotherapy fibrosis in nonseminoma patients
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Objective To validate Vergouwe's prediction model using the Swedish and Norwegian Testicular Cancer Group (SWENOTECA) RETROP database and to define its clinical utility. Materials and methods Vergouwe's prediction ... -
Validation of algorithms for energy expenditure evaluation in children using raw acceleration data
(Master thesis, 2017)Backround: The relation between energy expenditure (EE) in childhood physical activity and childhood or later adult health status is not clearly established. Thus, a better understanding of relation between energy expenditure ... -
Validation of algorithms for physical activity type detection in children using raw acceleration data
(Master thesis, 2016)Background: Accelerometry has become the objective method of choice to assess physical activity in children. However a number of limitations are related to how accelerometer data from children are analyzed. Valid algorithms ... -
Validation of Doloplus-2 among nonverbal nursing home patients--an evaluation of Doloplus-2 in a clinical setting.
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2010)In the present study, more patients were categorized as having pain while using Doloplus-2 compared with nurses' estimation of pain without using any tools. The fact that nurses could not report if the patients were in ...