Post discharge digital health technology interventions in ambulatory surgery: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Background: Given the early discharge associated with ambulatory surgery, digital health interventions (DHIs) may be useful in out of hospital follow-up. However, there are no systematic reviews concerning the use of DHIs in this setting.

Objective: To identify and evaluate the effects of DHIs on, patient safety, patient experience, and efficiency in post discharge ambulatory surgery.

Placental pathology and neonatal morbidity: exploring the impact of gestational age at birth.

Aim: To evaluate placental pathology in term and post-term births, investigate differences in clinical characteristics, and assess the risk of adverse neonatal outcome.

Methods: This prospective observational study included 315 singleton births with gestational age (GA) > 36 weeks + 6 days meeting the local criteria for referral to placental histopathologic examination. We applied the Amsterdam criteria to classify the placentas.

Patient positioning on the operating table and patient safety: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Aim: To identify occurrence of harmful incidents related to patient positioning on operating table.

Design: Systematic review and meta-analysis.

Data Sources: Eight databases including Ovid, Medline, Embase, CINAHL, the Cochrane Library, Epistemonikos, Scopus, Web of Science and Google Scholar were systematically searched from the inception of the databases to August 2023.

The association between perception of noise from a mechanical heart valve and symptoms of anxiety and depression.

Aims: Patients with symptomatic aortic valve stenosis are efficiently treated by aortic valve replacement (AVR), using a biological or mechanical valve. For some patients with mechanical valves, the metallic clicking sound may be problematic. The aim of this study was to investigate the perceived disturbance from the sound of a mechanical valve and the association between noise perception and symptoms of anxiety and depression.

Growth dynamics of incidental meningiomas: A prospective long-term follow-up study.

Background: There is no consensus on the management of incidental meningiomas. The literature on long-term growth dynamics is sparse and the natural history of these tumors remains to be illuminated.

Methods: We prospectively assessed long-term tumor growth dynamics and survival rates during active monitoring of 62 patients (45 female, mean age 63.

Histologic chorioamnionitis in extremely preterm births, microbiological findings and infant outcome.

Background: Histologic chorioamnionitis (HCA) is most often caused by ascending bacterial infection originating from the cervicovaginal tract.

Objectives: To investigate whether HCA with a fetal inflammatory response (FIR) has a worse clinical outcome than HCA alone. Further, if FIR or a positive maternal microbiologic culture obtained prior to birth were related to adverse neonatal outcomes in a cohort of extremely preterm (EP) neonates.

ALPS-Neo pain and stress assessment scale for neonates-A measure for procedural pain.

Aim: The aim of this study was to investigate psychometric properties, reliability and validity, of Astrid Lindgren and Lund Children's Hospitals Pain and Stress Assessment Scale for Preterm and Sick Newborn Infants (ALPS-Neo), as a measure for procedural pain.

Methods: This observational, prospective study with a repeated measures design, explored inter-rater reliability by two raters assessing 21 neonates during non-pain and pain events. Construct validity was explored, that is, ability to discriminate between non-pain and pain, and criterion validity by correlating ALPS-Neo with Premature Infant Pain Profile-Revised (PIPP-R) and Skin Conductance Algesimeter (SCA) in 54 neonates without ventilator support and sedation undergoing routine heel-stick procedure in a tertiary neonatal intensive care unit.

Long-Term Change and Predictors of Change in Physical and Mental Function after Rehabilitation: A Multi-Centre Study.

Objective: To investigate changes and predictors of change in physical and mental function over a 3-year period after rehabilitation.

Design: Prospective cohort.

Participants: Patients, across diseases, living in western Norway, accepted for somatic specialized interprofessional rehabilitation (n = 984).

Vascular risk factors and staging of atherosclerosis in patients and controls: The Norwegian Stroke in the Young Study.

Objectives: We studied the prevalence of vascular risk factors (RFs) among 385 ischaemic stroke patients ⩽60 years and 260 controls, and their association with atherosclerosis in seven vascular areas.

Methods: History of cardiovascular events (CVE), hypertension, diabetes mellitus (DM), dyslipidaemia, pack-years of smoking (PYS), alcohol, and physical inactivity were noted. Blood pressure, body mass index (BMI), waist-hip ratio (WHR), lipid profile, epicardial adipose tissue (EAT), visceral abdominal adipose tissue (VAT), and subcutaneous abdominal adipose tissue were measured.

Petechial hemorrhages, ethanol, and opioids in victims from intoxication.

Petechial hemorrhages are of interest to forensic pathologists because of their association with pressure on the neck. This study shows the associations between ethanol, opioids in blood and the risk of petechiae in conjunctivae and eye lids of 865 medico-legally examined victims from intoxication, 112 (12.9 %) with petechiae.

Development of health-related quality of life and subjective health complaints in adults born extremely preterm: a longitudinal cohort study.

Purpose: To study development trajectories to 34 years of age of health-related quality of life (HRQoL) and subjective health complaints in extremely preterm (EP) born subjects with and without disability, and to compare with term-born controls.

Methods: A Norwegian longitudinal population-based cohort of subjects born in 1982-85 at gestational age ≤ 28 weeks or with birth weight ≤ 1000 g and matched term-born controls completed the Norwegian version of the Short Form Health Survey-36 at ages 24 and 34 and the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children-Symptom Checklist at ages 17, 24 and 34 years. Data were analysed by unadjusted and adjusted mixed effects analyses with time by subject group as interaction term.

Placental histology predicted adverse outcomes in extremely premature neonates in Norway-population-based study.

Aim: We evaluated the role of placental pathology in predicting adverse outcomes for neonates born extremely preterm (EPT) before 28 weeks of gestation.

Methods: This was a prospective observational study of 123 extremely preterm singletons born in a hospital in western Norway, and the placentas were classified according to the Amsterdam criteria. The associations between histologic chorioamnionitis (HCA), by the presence or the absence of a foetal inflammatory response (FIR+ or FIR-), maternal vascular malperfusion (MVM) as a whole and adverse neonatal outcomes were evaluated by logistic regression analyses.

Prevalence of fibromyalgia 10 years after infection with : a controlled prospective cohort study.

Objectives: To investigate whether acute infection with is associated with fibromyalgia 10 years after infection and whether fibromyalgia is associated with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and chronic fatigue (CF) in this setting.

Methods: A cohort study was established after an outbreak of in Bergen, Norway, 2004. Laboratory-confirmed cases and a matched control group were followed for 10 years.

Prognostic role of tumour-infiltrating lymphocytes and macrophages in relation to MSI, CDX2 and BRAF status: a population-based study of metastatic colorectal cancer patients.

Background: Tumour-infiltrating CD3, CD8 lymphocytes and CD68 macrophages are associated with favourable prognosis in localised colorectal cancer, but the effect in metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) is not established.

Methods: A Scandinavian population-based cohort of non-resectable mCRC patients was studied. Tissue microarrays (n = 460) were stained with CD3, CD8 and CD68 using fluorescence-based multiplex immunohistochemistry.

Psychological health in preschool children with underweight, overweight or obesity: a regional cohort study.

Objective: To examine if underweight (UW), overweight (OW) or obesity (OB), or body mass index (BMI) expressed as its SD score (BMI SDS), were associated with psychological difficulties in preschool children.

Design: Regional cohort study.

Setting: Oppland County, Norway.

Loneliness Among Cognitively Intact Residents of Nursing Homes With and Without Cancer: A 6-Year Longitudinal Study.

Limited information exists regarding the natural development of loneliness and its determinants among cognitively intact nursing home residents. We aimed to examine loneliness among nursing home residents by following up for 6 years and to determine whether sociodemographic factors, diagnosis of cancer, sense of coherence, social support, and depression symptoms influence loneliness. The study was longitudinal and prospective and included baseline assessment and 6-year follow-up.

Clinimetric properties of a translated and culturally adapted Norwegian version of the Patient and Observer Scar Assessment Scale for use in clinical practice and research.

Purpose: To translate and culturally adapt the Patient and Observer Scar Assessment Scale, POSAS, to Norwegian and explore its test-retest, intra- and inter-tester reliability.

Methods: POSAS was translated into Norwegian following international guidelines in collaboration with an international translation bureau. Twenty-six adults and 24 children were recruited from a burns outpatient clinic.

A Health Economic Evaluation of the World Health Organization Surgical Safety Checklist: A Single Center Assessment.

Objectives: To evaluate cost-effectiveness of the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist.

Background: The clinical effectiveness of surgical checklists is largely understood. Few studies to-date have evaluated the cost-effectiveness of checklist use.

How are body mass and body attitude impacted by a behaviour change intervention in primary care? A pragmatic randomised controlled trial.

This study evaluated the effect of behaviour change interventions at Norwegian Healthy Life Centres on change in body mass index (BMI) and body attitude, and explored the predictors for change after 6 months. We randomised 118 participants to either an intervention or a control group. Eligible participants: ⩾18 years and able to take part in group-based interventions.

Impact of the Norwegian National Patient Safety Program on implementation of the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist and on perioperative safety culture.

Objectives: Our primary objective was to study the impact of the Norwegian National Patient Safety Campaign and Program on Surgical Safety Checklist (SSC) implementation and on safety culture. Secondary objective was associations between SSC fidelity and safety culture. We hypothesised that the programme influenced on SSC use and operating theatre personnel's safety culture perceptions.

A simple score to estimate the likelihood of pseudoprogression vs. recurrence following stereotactic radiosurgery for brain metastases: The Bergen Criteria.

Background: A major challenge in the follow-up of patients treated with stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) for brain metastases (BM) is to distinguish pseudoprogression (PP) from tumor recurrence (TR). The aim of the study was to develop a clinical risk assessment score.

Methods: Follow-up images of 87 of 97 consecutive patients treated with SRS for 348 BM were analyzed.

Development and Validation of a Simple Ultrasound Activity Score for Crohn's Disease.

Background And Aims: To improve management of patients with Crohn's disease, objective measurements of disease activity are needed. Ileocolonoscopy is the current reference standard but has limitations that restrict repeated use. Ultrasonography is potentially useful for activity monitoring, but no validated sonographic activity index is currently in widespread use.

Predicting physical activity in a national cohort of children born extremely preterm.

Unlabelled: Predicting physical activity in a national cohort of children born extremely preterm.

Objectives: To compare physical activity among school-aged children born extremely preterm or with extremely low birthweight (EP/ELBW) to term-born children, and to identify early predictors for physical inactivity in the EP/ELBW-children.

Methods: A national cohort born during 1999-2000 at gestational age < 28 weeks or birthweight <1000 g and term-born controls were assessed.

Clinical Efficacy of Combined Surgical Patient Safety System and the World Health Organization's Checklists in Surgery: A Nonrandomized Clinical Trial.

Importance: Checklists have been shown to improve patient outcomes in surgery. The intraoperatively used World Health Organization surgical safety checklist (WHO SSC) is now mandatory in many countries. The only evidenced checklist to address preoperative and postoperative care is the Surgical Patient Safety System (SURPASS), which has been found to be effective in improving patient outcomes.