<p>Bakgrunn: I takt med økt levealder forventes det en økning av mennesker med hjerneslag i befolkningen. En stor andel av disse menneskene vil oppleve svikt i arm/håndfunksjonen i både den akutte, subakutte og kroniske fasen. Det er usikkert hvilke tiltak som er best egnet for å gjenvinne arm/håndfunksjon, men tiltak som er oppgaverelatert og meningsfulle for vedkommende anbefales. Videre viser ...

Background - Sustainability has become a ubiquitous imperative across all sectors of society, including healthcare. Building on the broader discourse on sustainable development, sustainability is used in relation to social, ecological, and economic concerns with varying degrees of emphasis and often related to a sense of durability.<p> <p>Objective - To provide a detailed analysis of the concept ...

Aquaporin-4 (AQP4) is the main water channel in brain and is enriched in perivascular astrocyte processes abutting brain microvessels. There is a rich literature on the role of AQP4 in experimental stroke. While its role in oedema formation following middle cerebral artery occlusion (MCAO) has been studied extensively, its specific impact on infarct volume remains unclear. This study investigated ...

In clinical guidelines for patients with chronic musculoskeletal pain, reassurance is a key element. The purpose of reassuring patients is to change their views on their illness and, thereby, their actions. However, when symptoms persist without pathological findings, reassurance can be difficult to achieve. Drawing on observations of nineteen naturally occurring hospital consultations with chronic ...

The implementation of Open Notes in Sweden, granting patients access to their clinical records, has been a complex and nuanced endeavor, marked by regional variations in strategy and challenges arising from the diverging needs of healthcare providers and patients. This paper presents an interview study with managers about the implementation process in five of the 21 regions in Sweden. The aim of ...

Problem - For health care providers to ensure appropriate decision-making in clinical settings during childbirth, facilitators and barriers must be identified.<p> <p>Background - Women who experience a sense of control by participating in the decision-making process, are more likely to have a positive birth experience. However, decision-making may involve hierarchies of close observation and ...

Natural Language Processing (NLP) methods have shown promise for the assessment of formal thought disorder, a hallmark feature of schizophrenia in which disturbances to the structure, organization, or coherence of thought can manifest as disordered or incoherent speech. We investigated the suitability of modern Large Language Models (LLMs - e.g., GPT-3.5, GPT-4, and Llama 3) to predict expert-generated ...

Data analysis for athletic performance optimization and injury prevention is of tremendous interest to sports teams and the scientific community. However, sports data are often sparse and hard to obtain due to legal restrictions, unwillingness to share, and lack of personnel resources to be assigned to the tedious process of data curation. These constraints make it difficult to develop automated ...

Purpose To investigate the association between five dietary trajectories over 21 years and frailty in Norwegian older adults.<p> <p>Methods This study used data from three surveys of the Tromsø Study. Diet was measured using food frequency questionnaires at baseline (Tromsø4, 1994–95), after 7 years (Tromsø5, 2001) and at the end of follow-up (Tromsø7, 2015–16). Survey-specific diet scores were ...

Purpose The study’s purpose was to analyze return to work and other long-term outcomes in younger patients with newly diagnosed brain metastases, treated before they reached legal retirement age, i.e. younger than 65 years.<p> <p>Methods We included patients who survived greater than 2 years after their first treatment, regardless of approach (systemic therapy, neurosurgical resection, whole-brain ...