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Use of alcohol and drugs with addiction potential among older women and men in a population-based study. The Nord-Trøndelag Health Study 2006-2008 (HUNT3)
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Background Little is known about the consumption habits of older adults in Norway with respect to alcohol and the use of drugs with addiction potential, such as benzodiazepines, z-hypnotics and opioids, among regular ... -
Use of liraglutide and risk of major cardiovascular events: a register-based cohort study in Denmark and Sweden
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Use of mechanical and pharmacological restraint over an eight-year period and its relation to clinical factors
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Background: Use of restraint and finding the balance between security and ethics is a continuous dilemma in clinical psychiatry. In daily clinic and in planning health-care service, knowledge on the characteristics of ... -
The use of Misoprostol in the Management of Incomplete Abortion in Selected Health Facilities in Malawi
(Doctoral theses at NTNU;2024:47, Doctoral thesis, 2024)Malawi is a landlocked, low-income country in sub-Saharan Africa with a population of about 17.6 million. The country has one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the world and up to a quarter of these deaths are due ... -
Use of oral medicines for short-term illnesses in children - Perspectives on prescribing, dispensing and administration
(Doctoral theses at NTNU;2018:332, Doctoral thesis, 2018)Summary About half of all children receive one or more prescriptions per year, most commonly oral medicines for short-term illnesses. Choosing an appropriate medicine for a specific child can be challenging due to the ... -
Use of peripheral venous catheters in two Norwegian hospitals.
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)BAKGRUNN De fleste pasienter ved norske sykehus får rutinemessig ett eller flere perifere venekatetre. Et perifert venekateter regnes som ufarlig, men kan gi lokal infeksjon, med blodstrømsinfeksjon og sepsis som følge. ... -
Use of pregnancy ultrasound before the 19th week scan: an analytical study based on the Icelandic Childbirth and Health Cohort
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)Background and aim Use of ultrasound scans early in pregnancy is increasing, but we have limited knowledge about the actual prevalence, associated decision-making and impact on expectant women/couples in a general population. ... -
Use of prescription medication prior to suicide in Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Background The use of psychotropic medications in relation to mental disorders is considered central to preventing suicide. However, few studies have addressed prescription patterns at different time points within the ... -
Use of sodium-glucose co-transporter 2 inhibitors and risk of serious renal events: Scandinavian cohort study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)OBJECTIVE To assess the association between use of sodiumglucose co-transporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitors and risk of serious renal events in data from routine clinical practice. DESIGN Cohort study using an active comparator, ... -
User employment in hospital institutions - A qualitative study of physicians’ point of view
(Master thesis, 2017)Background and aim User involvement in delivering and planning health services is recommended and said to be useful to improve the quality of health services. Studies have shown that managers and health professionals are ... -
User need and resource allocation in public long-term care. The use of disability and impairment instruments: Application on a large Norwegian municipality
(Doctoral thesis at NTNU;2016:89, Doctoral thesis, 2016)Summary: In the coming decades, the European countries will witness great demographic changes. Within the next 25 years, the number of people aged 80 years or older will double. The elderly’s overall use of resources ... -
User-centred Design of a Digital Care Plan for Patients and Professionals in Cross-organisational Teams
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Care for patients with multimorbidity and long-term complex needs is costly and with demographic changes this group is growing. The research project Dignity Care addresses how to improve the care for this patient group by ... -
The Uses of Attention: Elements of Meditative Practice
(Chapter, 2014)This essay explores typical features of meditative techniques, primarily by investigating two aspects of attention: its focus and its mode. -
Using adopted individuals to partition indirect maternal genetic effects into prenatal and postnatal effects on offspring phenotypes
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Maternal genetic effects can be defined as the effect of a mother’s genotype on the phenotype of her offspring, independent of the offspring’s genotype. Maternal genetic effects can act via the intrauterine environment ... -
Using Automated Feature Selection for Building Case-Based Reasoning Systems: An Example from Patient-Reported Outcome Measurements
(Chapter, 2021)Feature selection for case representation is an essential phase of Case-Based Reasoning (CBR) system development. To (semi-)automate the feature selection process can ease the knowledge engineering process. This paper ... -
Using Genomic Structural Equation Modeling to Partition the Genetic Covariance Between Birthweight and Cardiometabolic Risk Factors into Maternal and Offspring Components in the Norwegian HUNT Study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)The Barker Hypothesis posits that adverse intrauterine environments result in fetal growth restriction and increased risk of cardiometabolic disease through developmental compensations. Here we introduce a new statistical ... -
Using Intervention Mapping to Develop a Decision Support System–Based Smartphone App (selfBACK) to Support Self-management of Nonspecific Low Back Pain: Development and Usability Study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Background: International guidelines consistently endorse the promotion of self-management for people with low back pain (LBP); however, implementation of these guidelines remains a challenge. Digital health interventions, ... -
Using multiple random index dates with the reverse waiting time distribution improves precision of estimated prescription durations
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Purpose To improve the precision of prescription duration estimates when using the reverse waiting time distribution (rWTD). Methods For each patient we uniformly sampled multiple random index dates within a sampling ... -
Using multivariable Mendelian randomization to estimate the causal effect of bone mineral density on osteoarthritis risk, independently of body mass index
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Objectives Observational analyses suggest that high bone mineral density (BMD) is a risk factor for osteoarthritis (OA); it is unclear whether this represents a causal effect or shared aetiology and whether these ... -
Using Prior Information from the Medical Literature in GWAS of Oral Cancer Identifies Novel Susceptibility Variant on Chromosome 4-the AdAPT Method
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012)Background: Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) require large sample sizes to obtain adequate statistical power, but it may be possible to increase the power by incorporating complementary data. In this study we ...