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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)The special nature of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and tracheostomy with invasive ventilation (TIV) leads to challenges that can be difficult in two senses: not only to handle well, but also to discuss with patients ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)Background Caring for people with dementia living in their own homes is a challenging care issue that raises ethical dilemmas of how to balance autonomy with their safety and well-being. The theoretical ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)Human being has a tendency to use more resources than are available. More and more countries spend almost all their economic growth on health services and education. Yet the public do not feel that the huge increasing of ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; 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 ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)Geographical variations are documented for a wide range of health care services. As many such variations cannot be explained by demographical or epidemiological differences, they are problematic with respect to distributive ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)Human cerebral organoids (HCOs) are model systems that enable researchers to investigate the human brain in ways that had previously been impossible. The emergence of HCOs was accompanied by both expert and layperson ...
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(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2023)For approximately six decades, Research Ethics Committees (RECs), also known as Institutional Review Boards (IRBs), have played an integral part in the identification of ethical issues before the commencement of clinical ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)Background In the EU, clinical assessors, rapporteurs and the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use are obliged to assess the ethical aspects of a clinical development program and include major ethical flaws in ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)Background: Within the EU, regulators are obliged to take ethical issues into consideration during marketing authorization deliberation. The goal of this manuscript is to identify what kinds of ethical issues regulators ...
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(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2009)Background: The Lønning II white paper asks for more knowledge on clinical priorities in different areas of health care. This in particular goes for resources used in intensive care units. Thanks to improvements in medical ...
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(Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)An accepted version of a chapter published in The Routledge Handbook of Ethics and Public Policy (2018), eds. Lever, A. & Poama, A.
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2014)Objective: Recently there has been emerging clinical and research interest in the application of deep brain stimulation (DBS) and repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) to the treatment of anorexia nervosa ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2015)Background Systematic ethics support in community health services in Norway is in the initial phase. There are few evaluation studies about the significance of ethics reflection on care. The aim of this ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)Violence against women is a global pandemic, with the potential to spread through generations. Intimate partner violence has impacts on women’s sexual, reproductive, and psycho-social health. It can occur during pregnancy ...
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(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2023)This PhD thesis studies induced abortion in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. A main finding is that the abortion legislation gives healthcare personnel plenty of scope for their own interpretations. In practice, it is often up to ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)Background Ethnic minority groups from Asia and Africa living in Western countries have a higher prevalence of type 2 diabetes (T2DM) than the general population. We aimed to assess ethnic differences in ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)Objectives: To explore ethnic differences in changes in body mass index (BMI) from the age of 18 years to 3 months postpartum. Design: A population-based cohort study. Setting: Child Health Clinics in Oslo, Norway. Pa ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)Background Peri-conceptional use of folic acid supplements is recommended to prevent neural tube defects. Correct supplement use seems to be less common among ethnic minorities. We examined ethnic differences ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)Bakgrunn: Svangerskapsdiabetes, definert som diabetes som oppstår eller først oppdages i svangerskapet, øker risikoen for uønskede komplikasjoner for både mor og barnet under svangerskapet, fødselen og senere i livet. ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2013)Background: Neonates from low and middle income countries (LAMIC) tend to have lower birth weight compared with Western European (WE) neonates. Parental height, BMI and maternal parity, age and educational level often ...