Blar i Institutt for helsevitenskap Gjøvik på tidsskrift "Journal of Evaluation In Clinical Practice"
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Ethical issues with colorectal cancer screening—a systematic review
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Rationale, aims, and objectives Colorectal cancer (CRC) screening is widely recommended and implemented. However, sometimes CRC screening is not implemented despite good evidence, and some types of CRC screening are ... -
Evaluating facts and facting evaluations: On the fact-value relationship in HTA
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)Health technology assessment (HTA) is an evaluation of health technologies in terms of facts and evidence. However, the relationship between facts and values is still not clear in HTA. This is problematic in an era of “fake ... -
The first casualty of an epidemic is evidence
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Background The COVID‐19 has posed a wide range of urgent questions: about the disease, testing, immunity, treatments, and outcomes. Extreme situations, such as pandemics, call for exceptional measures. However, this ... -
Getting personal on overdiagnosis: On defining overdiagnosis from the perspective of the individual person
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)How can overdiagnosis be defined, explained, and estimated on an individual level? The answers to this question are essential for persons to be able to make informed choices and give valid consents for tests. Traditional ... -
How precision medicine changes medical epistemology: A formative case from Norway
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Rationale and Aims Precision medicine (PM) raises a key question: How do we know what works when the number of people with a health problem becomes small or one (n = 1)? We here present a formative case from Norway. The ... -
Increased magnetic resonance imaging in prostate cancer management—What are the outcomes?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Increased attention to cancer care has instigated altered systems for screening, diagnosis, and management of various types of cancer, such as in the prostate. While such systems very likely have improved the quality of ... -
Looking for trouble? Diagnostics expanding disease and producing patients
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)Novel tests give great opportunities for earlier and more precise diagnostics. At the same time, new tests expand disease, produce patients, and cause unnecessary harm in overdiagnosis and overtreatment. How can we evaluate ...