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Assessment of patients' needs and resources as a basis in supervision for individualised nursing care in nursing home wards : evaluation of an intervention study
(2000-11-10)
The study in this thesis was conducted as an intervention project in three nursing home wards in Sweden, in a big city as well as in rural areas, one year in each ward. The intervention consisted of supervision for ...
Consequences of multiple sclerosis for patients in Sweden
(2019-11-11)
This study aimed to consider consequences of multiple sclerosis for patients in Sweden throughout various stages of the life course. The thesis was separated into four constituent papers, which dealt with different aspects ...
Cerebral palsy in Mulago hospital, Uganda : comorbidity, diagnosis and cultural adaptation of an assessment tool
(2016-05-02)
scans (31%) and very few primary white matter injuries (4%). PGMI were more common in children with a history of hospital admission following birth (Study III). In the culturally adapted PEDI-UG, overall 178 of the original 197 PEDI items (90%) were...
Effects of acute exercise and training on gene expression and regulatory proteins in human skeletal muscle
(2019-05-20)
Regular physical activity affects all tissues in the human body, not least skeletal muscle. The skeletal muscle adaptation involves changes that help the muscle to handle perturbations of the intracellular homeostasis ...
TRIM21/ Ro52 in B cell pathology
(2013-01-25)
Primary Sjögren’s syndrome (pSS) is a systemic autoimmune disease affecting 0.2% of the population. Several B cell aberrances have been linked to pSS, such as autoantibody production, hypergammaglobulinemia and B cell ...
Delivery of DNA vaccines against cancer
(2006-10-06)
DNA vaccines against cancer have shown promising results in animal models. Efficient antigenspecific T cell responses and tumor protection have been demonstrated after vaccination with DNA encoding tumor antigens in mice. ...
To cut or not to cut? Episiotomy in vacuum extraction
(2022-04-05)
). After statistical balancing using propensity score, episiotomy was associated with a reduction in OASIS from 15.5% to 11.8%, ie an average treatment effect -3.7% (95% CI -4.3 to -3.0). The numbers needed to treat (NNT) to prevent one OASIS was 27...
Toll-like receptor-induced cytokine secretion by human monocytes in healthy donors and septic patients assessed at the single cell level
(2013-08-23)
Following the ligation of Toll-like receptors (TLRs) by bacterial-derived signature molecules, innate immune cells such as monocytes, macrophages and neutrophils initiate the inflammatory process by secreting chemokines ...
Return to work : exploring paths toward work after spinal cord injury and designing a rehabilitation intervention
(2019-02-22)
Introduction: Return to work (RTW) after spinal cord injury (SCI) often involves a complex and extended process for the person, due to consequences of the injury. There is limited evidence on how to support a person with ...
The aging frontal lobe in health and disease : a structural magnetic resonance imaging study
(2012-05-08)
Cortical and subcortical regions of the brain decrease in volume in normal as well as pathological aging. Previous studies indicate that certain parts of the brain, like the prefrontal cortex, may be particularly vulnerable ...