Browsing Institutt for helse og samfunn by Author "Pedersen, Reidar"
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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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Solbakk, Jan Helge; Bentzen, Heidi Beate; Holm, Søren; Heggestad, Anne Kari Tolo; Hofmann, Bjørn Morten; Robertsen, Annette; Alnæs, Anne Hambro; Cox, Shereen; Pedersen, Reidar; Bernabe, Rosemarie de la Cruz (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)Abstract The Covid-19 pandemic creates an unprecedented threatening situation worldwide with an urgent need for critical reflection and new knowledge production, but also a need for imminent action despite prevailing ...
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Brøderud, Linn; Pedersen, Reidar; Magelssen, Morten (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)Background In several countries, district medical officers (DMOs) are public health experts with duties including infection control measures. The Norwegian DMOs have been key actors in the local handling ...
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Westbye, Siri F.; Rostoft, Siri; Romøren, Maria; Thoresen, Lisbeth; Wahl, Astrid K.; Pedersen, Reidar (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)Background Advance care planning (ACP) is a way of applying modern medicine to the principle of patient autonomy and ensuring that patients receive medical care that is consistent with their values, goals ...
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Hansson, Kristiane M.; Romøren, Maria; Pedersen, Reidar; Weimand, Bente; Hestmark, Lars; Norheim, Irene; Ruud, Torleif; Hymer, Inger S.; Heiervang, Kristin S. (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)Background The uptake of family involvement in health care services for patients with psychotic disorders is poor, despite a clear evidence base, socio-economic and moral justifications, policy, and guideline ...
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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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Wikstøl, David; Horn, Morten A.; Pedersen, Reidar; Magelssen, Morten (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)Background Decisions about appropriate treatment at the end of life are common in modern healthcare. Non-treatment decisions (NTDs), comprising both withdrawal and withholding of (potentially) life-prolonging ...
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Hestmark, Lars; Romøren, Maria; Hansson, Kristiane Myckland; Heiervang, Kristin Sverdvik; Pedersen, Reidar (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)Background: Family involvement in mental health care ranges from basic practices to complex interventions such as Family psychoeducation, the latter being a well-documented treatment for psychotic disorders. The aim of ...
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Magelssen, Morten; Karlsen, Heidi; Pedersen, Reidar; Thoresen, Lisbeth (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion, 2020)Correction to: BMC Med Ethics 2020, 21: 82 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12910-020-00522-1
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Molewijk, Bert; Hem, Marit H; Pedersen, Reidar (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2015)Background Little is known about how health care professionals deal with ethical challenges in mental health care, especially when not making use of a formal ethics support service. Understanding this is ...
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Husum, Tonje Lossius; Pedersen, Reidar; Hem, Marit Helene (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)Helsetjenestene innehar mulighet til å bruke makt for å hjelpe mennesker i sårbare livssituasjoner. Dette gir også mulighet til maktmisbruk. Det er mange eksempler fra historien som viser at det har fart galt av sted, og ...
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Husum, Tonje Lossius; Hem, Marit Helene; Pedersen, Reidar (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)Senter for medisinsk etikk ved universitetet i Oslo har gjennomført en nettbasert spørreundersøkelse av helsepersonells erfaringer med etiske utfordringer, tvang og krenkelser innen psykiske helsetjenester. Denne artikkelen ...
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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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Hem, Marit Helene; Molewijk, Albert Christiaan; Pedersen, Reidar (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2014)Background: In recent years, the attention on the use of coercion in mental health care has increased. The use of coercion is common and controversial, and involves many complex ethical challenges. The research question ...
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Lillemoen, Lillian; Pedersen, Reidar (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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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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Svendsen, Edel Jannecke; Pedersen, Reidar; Moen, Anne; Bjørk, Ida Torunn (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)The aim of this study was to explore nurses’ and physicians’ perspectives on and reasoning about the use of restraint during medical procedures on newly admitted preschoolers in somatic hospital care. We analysed qualitative ...
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Husum, Tonje Lossius; Pedersen, Reidar; Aasland, Olaf Gjerløw (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)The main task of mental health care services is to provide good quality of care. Despite this, users are sometimes treated badly by staff. The purpose of this study was to investigate violations and infringements towards ...
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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 ...