Introduction: The National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics’ (NACA) severity score is widely used in pre-hospital emergency medicine to grade the severity of illness or trauma in patient groups but is scarcely validated. The aim of this study was to assess the score’s ability to predict mortality and need for advanced in-hospital interventions in a cohort from one anaesthesiologistmanned helicopter ...

Introduction and hypothesis: The aims were to establish the prevalence of sexually abstinent women because of Pelvic Floor Disorders (PFDs) in parous women, and to examine if abstinence was associated with symptoms of PFDs or functional anatomy of the pelvic floor. Methods: Cross-sectional study of parous women responding to a questionnaire and undergoing pelvic floor examination. Distress for ...

Introduction <br>Nearly 40% of patients with advanced NSCLC are in performance status (PS) 2. These patients have a shorter life expectancy than PS 0/1 patients and they are underrepresented in clinical trials. Data on how platinum-based combination chemotherapy affects Health Related Quality of Life (HRQOL) of patients with PS 2 are scarce and the treatment of this important group of patients is ...

<i>Objective</i>: Our study aimed to verify whether cyberbullying victimization among adolescents occurs concomitantly with other forms of violence exposure (at home, at school and in the community).<p> <p><i>Methods</i>: A collaborative longitudinal study by Norwegian and Brazilian researchers was conducted in Itaboraí, a low-income city in southeast Brazil. At baseline, trained interviewers ...

Aims. To evaluate whether reduced waiting time influences survival of patients treated with whole-brain radiotherapy (WBRT) for brainmetastases. Materials and Methods. Retrospective intention-to-treat study including 110 patients treated with primary WBRT (typically 10 fractions of 3Gy; no other treatment between diagnosis and WBRT). Uni- and multivariate tests were performed. Results. Median ...

The doctor-patient relationship has been the cornerstone of medical practice. As e-health is coming to play an increasingly important role, it is necessary to consider how e-health can draw on, integrate and safeguard aspects of this relationship and thereby improve services and engage patients.

The host is protected by pattern recognition systems, including complement and TLRs, which are closely cross-talking. If improperly activated, these systems might induce tissue damage and disease. Inhibition of single downstream proinflammatory cytokines, such as TNF, IL-1β, and IL-6, have failed in clinical sepsis trials, which might not be unexpected, given the substantial amounts of mediators ...

This study examined the robustness of a traditional memory task when moved out of controlled traditional settings. A letter recall task was designed to be self-administered via a smart-device which assessed recall by participants’ writing their responses on the device. This enabled collection of both the letter recalled and the timing of this recall such that the temporal dynamics could be examined. ...

BAKGRUNN Det er tidligere vist høy forekomst av skader og dødsfall i forbindelse med bruk av snøscooter og andre terrengkjøretøy i Nord-Norge. Det finnes ikke tilgjengelig offentlig statistikk der disse funnene kan følges over tid. Målet med studien var å fremskaffe nye prevalenstall for skader og dødsfall etter bruk av snøscooter og andre terrengkjøretøy og å bedømme samsvar mellom ulike datakilder.<p> ...

Cardiac rehabilitation is very important for the recovery and the secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease, and one of its main strategies is to increase the level of physical activity. Internet and mobile phone based interventions have been successfully used to help people to achieve this. One of the components that are related to the efficacy of these interventions is tailoring of content ...