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Ung voksen med Ravmatoid Artritt. En kvalitativ studie om mestringsstrategier
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011)Bakgrunn: Livet som ung med Revmatoid artritt (RA) kan være krevende. Å studere unge voksne RA-pasienter som opplever velvære, antas å kunne gi nyttig kunnskap om mestringstrategier. Hensikt: Å beskrive unge voksne ... -
Unplanned out-of-institution births: Incidence, outcome, and prediction of imminent childbirth
(Doctoral theses at NTNU;2017:367, Doctoral thesis, 2017)SUMMARY Background On average, there are 60,000 births in Norway every year. Most take place at birth institutions: planned home births are few. For many women, an increase in the centralization of care has led to longer ... -
Unraveling the multifaceted in vivo fate of cancer nanomedicine
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Unsupervised supervoxel-based lung tumor segmentation across patient scans in hybrid PET/MRI
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Tumor segmentation is a crucial but difficult task in treatment planning and follow-up of cancerous patients. The challenge of automating the tumor segmentation has recently received a lot of attention, but the potential ... -
An Update on Prevalence, Assessment, and Risk Factors for Sleep Disturbances in Patients with Advanced Cancer—Implications for Health Care Providers and Clinical Research
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Simple Summary This review focuses on sleep in patients with advanced cancer. Cancer patients experience multiple symptoms and they receive concomitant medications. These are all factors that may affect sleep. In this ... -
Upper limb pain and function in patients treated for breast cancer - pattern and predictors
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Urinary detection of corticosteroid in topical treatment of skin disease by 19F MRS
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Objective To investigate if it was feasible to quantify the renal excretion of topically applied corticosteroids by 19F MRS. Materials and methods Five participants, one healthy and four with skin diseases, were treated ... -
The use of handheld ultrasound devices: a position statement of the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging (2018 update)
(Journal article, 2019)Recent technological advances in echocardiography, with progressive miniaturization of ultrasound machines, have led to the development of handheld ultrasound devices (HUD). These devices, no larger than some mobile phones, ... -
Use of inhaled corticosteroids and the risk of lung cancer, the HUNT study
(Master thesis, 2017)Abstract Background: Inflammation plays a central role in COPD and lung cancer carcinogenesis. Inhaled corticosteroids (ICS) reduce inflammation. This study has investigated whether ICS use are associated with a lower ... -
Use of national early warning score for observation for increased risk for clinical deterioration during post-ICU care at a surgical ward
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Purpose: Patients transferred from an intensive care unit (ICU) to a general ward are at risk for clinical deterioration. The aim of the study was to determine if an increase in National Early Warning Score (NEWS) value ... -
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. ... -
User involvement in early-stage design of medical training devices – case of a palpation task trainer prototype
(Journal article, 2021)Design of new medical training equipment is demanding as unavoidable complexity and ambiguity facing designers must be addressed in the early stages of the development. In this paper, a novel concept for abdominal palpation ... -
Using electrophysiological measures to evaluate the sense of presence in immersive virtual environments: An event‐related potential study.
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Sense of presence has been often explored in the context of virtual reality (VR) and immersive visual technologies; however, standardized and objective measures of the sense of presence have been difficult to find. Studies ... -
Using machine learning to assess the extent of busy ambulances and its impact on ambulance response times: A retrospective observational study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)Background Ambulance response times are considered important. Busy ambulances are common, but little is known about their effect on response times. Objective To assess the extent of busy ambulances in Central Norway ... -
Using Salivary Biomarkers for Stress Assessment in Offshore Saturation Diving: a Pilot Study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Health monitoring during offshore saturation diving is complicated due to restricted access to the divers, the desire to keep invasive procedures to a minimum, and limited opportunity for laboratory work onboard dive support ... -
Using the CustusX toolkit to create an image guided bronchoscopy application: Fraxinus
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Purpose The aim of this paper is to show how a specialized planning and guidance application called Fraxinus, can be built on top of the CustusX platform (www.custusx.org), which is an open source image-guided intervention ... -
Utarbeiding av sjekkliste: et hjelpemiddel ved implementering av bildefusjonering på ultralyd
(Bachelor thesis, 2020)Bakgrunn: Helsevesenet er under stadig utvikling, spesielt innenfor teknologiske fremskritt. Derfor er det nødvendig at helsepersonell har oppdatert kunnskap og kompetanse innen teknologi i utvikling. Å jobbe kunnskapsbasert ...