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How does botulinum toxin inhibit itch?
(Toxins;Volume 14 / Issue 10, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Two decades after reports of the anti-pruritic effects of botulinum neurotoxins (BoNTs), there is still no approved product for the anti-itch indication of BoNTs, and most clinical case reports still focus on the off-label ... -
How individuals with dementia in nursing homes maintain their dignity through life storytelling - A case study
(Journal of Clinical Nursing;24(15-16), Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015-04-20)Aims and Objectives The aim of this article is to present and discuss findings on what individuals with dementia do themselves to maintain or promote their dignity of identity when they live in a nursing home. Background ... -
How Long Is a Normal Labor? Contemporary Patterns of Labor and Birth in a Low-Risk Sample of 1,612 Women from Four Nordic Countries
(Birth;42(4), Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015-10-15)Objective: Normal progress of labor is a subject for discussion among professionals. The aim of this study was to assess the duration of labor in women with a planned home birth and spontaneous onset who gave birth at home ... -
How Long Is a Normal Labor? Contemporary Patterns of Labor and Birth in a Low-Risk Sample of 1,612 Women from Four Nordic Countries
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-10-15)Objective: Normal progress of labo u r is a subject for discussion among professionals. The aim of th is study was to assess the length of labour in women with a planned home birth and spontaneous onset who ... -
How many of persistent coughers have pulmonary tuberculosis? Population-based cohort study in Ethiopia
(BMJ Open;Volume 12, Issue 5, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022-05-24)Objective: Many individuals with persistent cough and smear microscopy-negative sputum test for tuberculosis (TB) remain at risk of developing the disease. This study estimates the incidence of pulmonary TB (PTB) among ... -
How much synthetic oxytocin is infused during labour? A review and analysis of regimens used in 12 countries
(PLoS ONE; 15(7): e0227941, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-07-28)Objective: To compare synthetic oxytocin infusion regimens used during labour, calculate the International Units (IU) escalation rate and total amount of IU infused over eight hours. Design: Observational study. Setting: ... -
How older adults recovering from substance use problems experience mattering
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Aim: Mattering is a fundamental human experience promoting crucial components to later-life recovery processes. Today, the largest population of older adult persons with substance use problems, so far, is on a steep rise ... -
How public home care officers reason when making a needs assessment for food distribution to homebound elderly persons in Sweden
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2013)Food distribution (FD) is a part of the public social and care service in Sweden aiming to prevent improper food intake for persons that they are unable to do their ow n shopping, and prepare their own meals, and in ... -
How school nurses experience and understand everyday pain among adolescents
(BMC Nursing;16(53), Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Pain problems are a rapidly growing health problem found among both children and adolescent, and about 15–30% have reported chronic pain problems. School nurses in Norway meet adolescents with various ailments, including ... -
How should behavior analysis interact effectively with the social sciences
(Behavior and Social Issues, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2006)ABSTRACT: I would like to discuss some perspectives on scientific approaches traditionally viewed as mutually incompatible or antagonistic. This might be illustrated by e.g. natural scientists’ claim of unambiguous ... -
How theory can help to understand the potential impact of food environment policies on socioeconomic inequalities in diet: An application of Bourdieu’s capital theory and the scarcity theory
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Government policies that promote healthy food environments are considered promising to reduce socioeconomic inequalities in diet. Empirical evidence of effects on these inequalities, however, is relatively scarce and, with ... -
How to adapt caring services to migration-driven diversity? A qualitative study exploring challenges and possible adjustments in the care of people living with dementia
(PLOS ONE;volume 15, issue 12, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-12-22)Background: Research on how services can be adapted to meet the needs of people with dementia with an immigrant or minority ethnic background is scarce. Several approaches have been dis- cussed: offering services adapted ... -
How to adapt caring servicesto migration-drived diversity. A qualitative study exploring challenges and possible adjustments in the care.
(PLoS ONE;Volume 15, Issue 12, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-12-22)Background Research on how services can be adapted to meet the needs of people with dementia with an immigrant or minority ethnic background is scarce. Several approaches have been discussed: offering services adapted to ... -
How triage nurses use discretion: A literature review
(Professions and Professionalism;5(3), Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)Discretion is quintessential for professional work. This review aims to understand how nurses use discretion when they perform urgency assessments in emergency departments with formalised triage systems—systems that are ... -
How will the reliability of children’s reports of an event be affected by the interviewer’s presence at the event?
(Master thesis, 2023)Verbal interactions between a preschool-aged child and adults often involve the child responding to questions asked by the adult. These interactions may require the child to answer questions they do not know the answer to. ... -
HPV chromosomal integration as a biomarker for cancer progression
(Master thesis, 2021)Background: Human papillomavirus (HPV) is associated with 4,5% of all human cancers worldwide including cervical cancer. Cytological and/or HPV primary screening is used to uncover cancer precursors. Still, better clinical ... -
"HPV chromosomal integration as a biomarker for cancer progression" Validation and characterization of integration sites in HPV31, 33 and 45 positive cervical samples
(Master thesis, 2021-05)Background: Human papillomavirus (HPV) is associated with 4.5% of all human cancers worldwide including cervical cancer. Cytological and/or HPV primary screening is used to uncover cancer precursors. Still, better clinical ... -
HPV Genotyping of Modified General Primer-Amplicons Is More Analytically Sensitive and Specific by Sequencing than by Hybridization
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Sensitive and specific genotyping of human papillomaviruses (HPVs) is important for population-based surveillance of carcinogenic HPV types and for monitoring vaccine effectiveness. Here we compare HPV genotyping by Next ... -
HPV16 and HPV18 type-specific APOBEC3 and integration profiles in different diagnostic categories of cervical samples
(Tumour Virus Research;Volume 12, December 2021, 200221, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-07-14)Human papillomavirus (HPV) 16 and 18 are the most predominant types in cervical cancer. Only a small fraction of HPV infections progress to cancer, indicating that additional factors and genomic events contribute to the ... -
HPV16 whole genome minority variants in persistent infections from young Dutch women
(Journal of Clinical Virology;Volume 119, October 2019, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-08-09)Background: Chronic infections by one of the oncogenic human papillomaviruses (HPVs) are responsible for near 5% of the global cancer burden and HPV16 is the type most often found in cancers. HPV genomes displayunexpected ...