Background Information on cause of death may help appraise the degree to which the high excess mortality after hip fracture refects pre-existing comorbidities or the injury itself. We aimed to describe causes of death and causespecifc excess mortality through the frst year after hip fracture.<p> <p>Methods For studying the distribution of causes of death by time after hip fracture, we calculated ...

Spillbasert læring bruker prinsipper fra spill for å engasjere og motivere studenter i sin læring. I kombinasjon med innsikter om effektive læringsstrategier kan spillbaserte læringsressurser sikre både motivasjon til å lære og en effektiv læringsprosess. En forutsetning for å lykkes med introduksjon av ny teknologi generelt og spillbaserte læringsressurser spesifikt er at teknologien aksepteres av ...

In recent years, cases of vasskveite (water halibut) syndrome in halibut have been increasing. At the moment, there exists no way to screen for the syndrome immediately after capture, which is problematic for both exporters and purchasers. In this article, we compared good quality halibut and halibut exhibiting the syndrome using a variety of techniques. Hyperspectral imaging was used to quantify ...

Prostatakreft er den nest hyppigst diagnostiserte kreftsykdommen blant menn over hele verden. Selv om forekomsten av prostatakreft er høy, er dødeligheten relativt lav. Begrepet lokalt begrenset prostatakreft spenner fra pasienter med lav risiko som ikke skal behandles, til høy risiko som skal behandles. Vi inkluderte en systematisk oversikt om effekten av kirurgi sammenlignet med aktiv overvåkning ...

<p><i>Purpose -</i> To explore nurses' perceptions of their educational role, pedagogical competence, and practice in teaching children with rheumatic diseases and their parents to manage subcutaneous injections at home. <p><i>Design and methods -</i> In this qualitative study, we used thematic analysis to analyze data from three focus groups with 14 nurses responsible for patient education at one ...

<p>Unilateral differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC) <4 cm can be treated with thyroid lobectomy or total thyroidectomy (TT), depending on the presence of high-risk features. Information about some of these features, such as micrometastasis in lymph nodes or microscopic extrathyroidal extension (ETE), are usually incidental findings that only become available after histological assessment from the first ...

<p><i>Background:</i> Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is a life-threatening vascular event with environmental and genetic determinants. Recent VTE genome-wide association studies (GWAS) meta-analyses involved nearly 30 000 VTE cases and identified up to 40 genetic loci associated with VTE risk, including loci not previously suspected to play a role in hemostasis. The aim of our research was to expand ...

The news from Ukraine is currently full of heart-wrenching stories accompanied by graphic images of civilian casualties and massacres that are telecast world-wide on a daily basis. It is hard to fathom the magnitude of the devastation and disruption to regular lives and everyday routines that war brings with it, the witnessing of countless deaths, the associated trauma of living in perpetual fear, ...

Background - A high mean platelet volume (MPV), a marker of increased platelet reactivity, is a risk factor for venous thromboembolism (VTE). Whether established prothrombotic single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) further increase the VTE risk in subjects with high MPV because of biological interaction remains unknown.<p> <p>Aim - To investigate the joint effect of high MPV and prothrombotic ...

Hypothermia is defined as a core body temperature of <35°C, and as body temperature is reduced the impact on physiological processes can be beneficial or detrimental. The beneficial effect of hypothermia enables circulation of cooled experimental animals to be interrupted for 1–2 h without creating harmful effects, while tolerance of circulation arrest in normothermia is between 4 and 5 min. This ...