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Quality assessment of ADL instrument and evaluation of ADL ability in individuals with cervical spinal cord injury after reconstructive hand surgery
(2017-04-28)
Abstract
Background: A spinal cord injury (SCI) leads to dramatic changes in an individual’s life and the rehabilitation after the injury is a lifelong process. For persons with cervical spinal cord injury (SCI), the ...
Systematiska kunskapsöversikter; 10. Occupational Heat Exposure
(Arbets- och miljömedicin, Göteborgs universitet, 2017-11-11)
The present review covers a wide scope of occupational heat stress relatedissues. The problematics related to climate change have placed heat exposure on the agenda. As a result, the research on heat effects has increased ...
En vårdande ljusmiljö inom intensivvård -Patienters upplevelser och effekter av en cyklisk belysningsintervention
(2017-03-02)
ABSTRACT Aim: The overall aim of this thesis was to describe and evaluate patients’, who were cared for in the intensive care unit (ICU), experiences and effects concerning a cycled lighting intervention based on health, ...
Physiological role of amyloid precursor protein during neural development
(2017-05-22)
Amyloid precursor protein (APP) is a type-one membrane-spanning protein with a large
extracellular N-terminal domain and a small intracellular C-terminal domain. APP first gained
interest due to its involvement in the ...
Endovascular treatment of acute ischemic stroke
(2017-09-01)
Background: Intravenous thrombolysis is effective in patients with minor stroke but not in patients with moderate or major stroke due to large vessel occlusion. Endovascular stroke treatment offers a high recanalization ...
Measurement of sensitivity to DNA damaging agents
(2017-08-18)
There is a large inter-individual variation in intrinsic sensitivity in patients receiving treatment with DNA damaging agents. Cancer therapy exemplifies this problem where patients experience varying degree of normal ...
The importance of lifestyle factors for the outcome of gynecological surgery
(2017-04-06)
Background: Hysterectomy (HT), urinary incontinence- (UI) and pelvic organ prolapse (POP) surgery are common surgical procedures in women with benign disorders and more than 16 000 procedures are performed annually in ...
Aural rehabilitation programs for hearing aid users: Evaluating and clinically applying educational programs, supported via telephone and/or the internet and professionally guided by an audiologist
(2017-05-18)
Many hearing aid users experience substantial communication difficulties that may affect their participation in daily life situations negatively. This experience can be addressed using follow-up rehabilitation programs, ...
Community onset sepsis in Sweden - a population based study
(2017-11-17)
Sepsis and previously “severe sepsis” are concepts used for denoting organ dysfunction caused by acute infection. Organ dysfunction correlates to increased case fatality rates. Sepsis is a common cause of hospitalization. ...
Aspects of treatment of non-muscle invasive bladder cancer
(2017-05-08)
Bladder cancer is the third most common malignancy in men in Sweden and a total of
2560 patients were diagnosed with new disease in 2015. Over 95% of the tumours are of
urothelial origin. Approximately 75% of the patients ...