Browsing Institutt for helse og samfunn by Author "Førde, Reidun"
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Thoresen, Lisbeth; Pedersen, Reidar; Lillemoen, Lillian; Gjerberg, Elisabeth; Førde, Reidun (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)Background 52% of all deaths in Norway occur in nursing homes. Still advance care planning (ACP) is scarce and heterogeneous. To improve the implementation and practice of ACP in nursing homes, knowledge about health care ...
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Aasland, Olaf Gjerløw; Husum, Tonje Lossius; Førde, Reidun; Pedersen, Reidar (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)More knowledge is needed on how to reduce the prevalence of formal and informal coercion in Norwegian mental health care. To explore possible reasons for the widespread differences in coercive practice in psychiatry and ...
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Bringedal, Berit; Isaksson Rø, Karin; Magelssen, Morten; Førde, Reidun; Aasland, Olaf G. (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)Background: We present and discuss the results of a Norwegian survey of medical doctors' views on potential ethical dilemmas in professional practice. Methods: The study was conducted in 2015 as a postal questionnaire to ...
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Agledahl, Kari Milch; Førde, Reidun; Wifstad, Åge (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2011)The principle of respect for autonomy has shaped much of the bioethics' discourse over the last 50 years, and is now most commonly used in the meaning of respecting autonomous choice. This is probably related to the ...
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Agledahl, Kari Milch; Gulbrandsen, Pål; Førde, Reidun; Wifstad, Åge (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2011)Objective To study how doctors care for their patients, both medically and as fellow humans, through observing their conduct in patient–doctor encounters. Design Qualitative study in which 101 videotaped consultations ...
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Larsen, Berit Hofset; Lundeby, Tonje; Gerwing, Jennifer; Gulbrandsen, Pål; Førde, Reidun (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)Objective Advanced cancer poses a threat to all aspects of being, potentially causing existential suffering. We explore what kind of existential concerns patients with advanced cancer disclose during a routine hospital ...
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Gjerberg, Elisabeth; Lillemoen, Lillian; Førde, Reidun; Pedersen, Reidar (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2015)Background Involving nursing home patients and their relatives in end-of-life care conversations and treatment decisions has recently gained increased importance in several Western countries. However, there ...
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Lillemoen, Lillian; Syse, Irene; Pedersen, Reidar; Førde, Reidun (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)Kliniske etikkomiteer (KEK) har vært etablert i norske helseforetak siden 1996, først som et prøveprosjekt, senere som et permanent tiltak med et nasjonalt mandat. I forbindelse med det nasjonale etikkprosjektet «Samarbeid ...
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Magelssen, Morten; Holmøy, Trygve; Horn, Morten Andreas; Fondenes, Ove; Dybwik, Knut Gustav; Førde, Reidun (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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Karlsen, Heidi Marie; Gjerberg, Elisabeth; Førde, Reidun; Magelssen, Morten; Pedersen, Reidar; Lillemoen, Lillian (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)Bakgrunn: Ansatte i kommunal helse- og omsorgstjenestene står overfor mange etiske utfordringer i sin arbeidshverdag. Det nasjonale prosjektet «Samarbeid om etisk kompetanseheving (2007–2015)» i regi av KS, hadde som ...
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Romøren, Maria; Pedersen, Reidar; Førde, Reidun (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)Background Ethically challenging critical events and decisions are common in nursing homes. This paper presents nursing home doctors’ descriptions of how they include the patient and next of kin in end-of-life ...
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Karlsen, Heidi Marie; Lillemoen, Lillian; Magelssen, Morten; Førde, Reidun; Pedersen, Reidar; Gjerberg, Elisabeth (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)Background: Healthcare personnel in the municipal healthcare systems experience many ethical challenges in their everyday work. In Norway, 243 municipalities participated in a national ethics project, aimed to increase ...
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Romøren, Maria; Hermansen, Karin B.; Sævareid, Trygve J. L.; Brøderud, Linn; Westbye, Siri F.; Wahl, Astrid K.; Thoresen, Lisbeth; Rostoft, Siri; Førde, Reidun; Ahmed, Marc; Aas, Eline; Midtbust, May H.; Pedersen, Reidar (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)Background Acutely ill and frail older adults and their next of kin are often poorly involved in treatment and care decisions. This may lead to either over- or undertreatment and unnecessary burdens. The ...
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Sævareid, Trygve J L; Lillemoen, Lillian; Thoresen, Lisbeth; Førde, Reidun; Gjerberg, Elisabeth; Pedersen, Reidar (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)Background Close to half of all deaths in Norway occur in nursing homes, which signals a need for good communication on end-of-life care. Advance care planning (ACP) is one means to that end, but in Norwegian ...
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Magelssen, Morten; Pedersen, Reidar; Miljeteig, Ingrid; Ervik, Håvard; Førde, Reidun (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)Case consultation performed by clinical ethics committees (CECs) is a complex activity which should be evaluated. Several evaluation studies have reported stakeholder satisfaction in single institutions. The present study ...
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Robertsen, Annette; Helseth, Eirik; Førde, Reidun (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)Background Prognostic uncertainty is a challenge for physicians in the neuro intensive care field. Questions about whether continued life-sustaining treatment is in a patient’s best interests arise in ...
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Klomstad, Kristin; Pedersen, Reidar; Førde, Reidun; Romøren, Maria (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)Background Many of the elderly in nursing homes are very ill and have a reduced quality of life. Life expectancy is often hard to predict. Decisions about life-prolonging treatment should be based on a ...
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Heggestad, Anne Kari Tolo; Førde, Reidun (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)Background One of the core ethical principles in the Norwegian welfare state is the principle of justice; all citizens should have equal access to healthcare services, including nursing homes, independent of where they ...
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Førde, Reidun; Aasland, Olaf Gjerløw (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)Objective Being involved in serious patient injury is devastating for most doctors. During the last two decades, several efforts have been launched to improve Norwegian doctors’ coping with adverse events and ...
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Førde, Reidun; Linja, Trude (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2015)Background All hospital trusts in Norway have clinical ethics committees (CEC). Some of them invite next of kin/patients to be present during the discussion of their case. This study looks closer at how ...