Decentralized nursing education (DNE) was established at Tromsø University College in 1990 and has since become a part of the bachelor programme in nursing at UiT The Arctic University of Norway. The objective of the study was to investigate whether and to what degree the first DNE programme established in Norway has contributed to recruitment and retention of registered nurses (RNs) in rural ...

The identification of cell type-specific genes and their modification under certain conditions is essential for our understanding of the human body. Such knowledge also allows us to study the function of uncharacterised genes in the correct cell type. Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNAseq) can be used to profile different cell types, but cell removal and processing can introduce artifacts. In the ...

<i>Listeria monocytogenes</i> is a common food-borne pathogen that can disseminate from the intestine and infect multiple organs. Here, we used sequence tag-based analysis of microbial populations (STAMP) to investigate <i>L. monocytogenes</i> population dynamics during infection. We created a genetically barcoded library of murinized <i>L. monocytogenes</i> and then used deep sequencing to track ...

Objectives: : Vaccine refusal is increasing in Australia and is a major concern in high- and middle income countries. There is evidence to suggest that some parents, even those who elect to immunise, may be vaccine hesitant with some manipulating the schedule by excluding or delaying some vaccines. The aim of this review was to gain an understanding of factors that influence vaccine decision-making ...

Introduction: Optimal management of mechanical ventilation and weaning requires dynamic and collaborative decision making to minimize complications and avoid delays in the transition to extubation. In the absence of collaboration, ventilation decision making may be fragmented, inconsistent, and delayed. Our objective was to describe the professional group with responsibility for key ventilation ...

Background: Guidelines for primary prevention of cardiovascular disease provide little guidance on how patients’ preferences should be taken into account. We wanted to explore whether general practitioners (GPs) are sensitive to patient preferences regarding survival gains from statin therapy. Methods: In a cross sectional, online survey 3,270 Norwegian GPs were presented with a 55 year old patient ...

BACKGROUND In patients with lumbar spinal stenosis and degenerative spondylolisthesis, it is uncertain whether decompression surgery alone is noninferior to decompression with instrumented fusion. METHODS We conducted an open-label, multicenter, noninferiority trial involving patients with symptomatic lumbar stenosis that had not responded to conservative management and who had single-level ...

<i>Introduction - </i>In this study, we examined changes in depot medroxyprogesterone acetate (DMPA) prescriptions over a time‐period when new professions started prescribing, and when the method gained some negative media attention.<br><br> <i>Material and methods - </i>The Norwegian Prescription Database provided data on hormonal contraception from 2006 through 2012. We estimated the annual number ...

Given the constant pressure to increase patient throughput while respecting radiation protection, global body PET image quality (IQ) is not satisfactory in all patients. We first studied the association between IQ and other variables, in particular body habitus, on a digital PET/CT. Second, to improve and homogenize IQ, we evaluated a deep learning PET denoising solution (Subtle PET^TM) ...