Published 28 February 2020 Har Du deltagit i mammografiscreeningen eller undersökts med brösttomosyntes i Malmö mellan 2004 och 2018 eller deltagit i mammografiscreening i Lund, Helsingborg eller Kristianstad mellan 2013 och 2018? Då kan dina uppgifter finnas i en ny studie vid Lunds universitet! Läs mer här.

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/modernisering-av-brostcancerscreening - 2025-04-25

Published 2 March 2020 Pain is a common problem for individuals with cerebral palsy (CP). In Sweden, 95% of children and adolescents with CP are followed in a national follow-up programme (CPUP), which includes data on pain. The purpose of this study was to investigate the prevalence of pain based on age, sex, gross motor function and source of report (self or proxy). Pain intensity, pain site, an

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/pain-children-and-adolescents-cerebral-palsy-cross-sectional-register-study-3545-individuals - 2025-04-25

Published 2 March 2020 The fragility index (FI) is a metric to evaluate the robustness of statistically significant results. It describes the number of patients who would need to change from a non-event to an event to change a result from significant to non-significant. This systematic survey aimed to evaluate the feasibility of applying the FI to findings related to anterior cruciate ligament (AC

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/strength-numbers-fragility-index-studies-scandinavian-knee-ligament-registries - 2025-04-25

Published 3 March 2020 The British Cardiovascular Intervention Society (BCIS) percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) registry is hosted by the National Institute of Cardiovascular Outcomes Research (NICOR) at Bart’s Heart Centre and collects clinical characteristics, indications, procedural details, and outcomes of all patients undergoing PCI in the UK. The data are used for audit and research t

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/british-cardiovascular-intervention-society-registry-framework-quality-improvement-initiative-behalf - 2025-04-25

Published 3 March 2020 Distal radius fracture often compromises working ability, but clinical implications are less studied in men due to its lower incidence. This study therefore describes sick leave in men with distal radius fracture, specifically exploring the impact of patient- and fracture-related factors. New publication in Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/disability-and-pain-are-best-predictors-sick-leave-after-distal-radius-fracture-men - 2025-04-25

Published 3 March 2020 Kursens övergripande syfte är att deltagarna skall fördjupa sin kunskap om hälsoeffekter av luftföroreningar i omgivningsmiljön, så att de på grundval av vetenskap och beprövad erfarenhet kan handlägga miljömedicinska frågeställningar som rör luftföroreningar. Kursen kommer att ge en kunskapsöversikt om de luftföroreningar i omgivningsluft som anses vara mest relevanta för m

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/miljomedicinsk-kurs-om-luftfororeningar-i-allmanmiljo-och-ohalsa - 2025-04-25

Published 4 March 2020 In the Swedish population-based follow-up program and national quality registry for individuals with cerebral palsy (CPUP), physiotherapy (PT) and occupational therapy (OT) treatments are regularly recorded along with functional status. By Swedish law, all citizens irrespective of personal characteristics or socioeconomic status, have the right to receive healthcare and medi

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/gender-differences-treatments-and-interventions-received-children-and-adolescents-cerebral-palsy - 2025-04-25

Published 5 March 2020 School bullying is a widespread phenomenon across the world, which involves bystanders who take on various roles. Motivation to defend victims is important to investigate because it helps us devise better, evidence-based, anti-bullying interventions. New publication in Child & youth Care Forum

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/early-adolescents-emotional-and-behavioral-difficulties-student-teacher-relationships-and-motivation - 2025-04-25

Published 6 March 2020 The introduction of sacubitril/valsartan (an angiotensin receptor–neprilysin inhibitor) is likely to change the approach to the management of patients with chronic heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF). The Assessment of Real Life Care–Describing European Heart Failure Management (ARIADNE) registry will evaluate patient characteristics, practice patterns, outc

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/management-heart-failure-reduced-ejection-fraction-europe-design-ariadne-registry - 2025-04-25

Published 7 March 2020 Continuously high rates of overdose deaths in Sweden led to the decision by the Skåne County to initiate the first regional take-home naloxone program in Sweden. The project aims to study the effect of overdose prevention education and naloxone distribution on overdose mortality in Skåne County. Secondary outcome measures include non-fatal overdoses and overdose-related harm

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/protocol-multi-site-study-effects-overdose-prevention-education-naloxone-distribution-program-skane - 2025-04-25

Published 8 March 2020 Fast-track referral is an increasingly used method for diagnostic evaluation of patients suspected of having cancer. This approach is challenging and not used as often for patients with only nonspecific symptoms. In order to expedite the diagnostics for these patients, we established Sweden’s first Diagnostic Center (DC) focusing on outcomes related to diagnoses and diagnost

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/diagnostic-spectrum-and-time-intervals-swedens-first-diagnostic-center-patients-nonspecific-symptoms - 2025-04-25

Published 9 March 2020 Routinely collected data are a powerful research resource and offer the opportunity to further our understanding of epilepsy mortality and Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy (SUDEP). The advantages of using routinely collected data include that it often covers whole populations, is already collected, and can be easily linked to other data sources. A significant disadvantage

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/sudep-and-mortality-epilepsy-role-routinely-collected-healthcare-data-registries-and-health - 2025-04-25

Published 10 March 2020 Cancer patients with ID were less likely than those without ID to have at least one visit in specialist inpatient (relative risk 0.90, 95% confidence interval 0.87-0.93) and outpatient (0.88, 0.85-0.91) health care, during their last year of life. Those with ID were more likely to have no or fewer return visits than the patients in the gPop cohort (5 vs. 11, P < 0.001), als

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/end-life-care-among-older-cancer-patients-intellectual-disability-comparison-general-population-0 - 2025-04-25

Published 11 March 2020 The first aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence of poor sleep in a sample of Swedish adolescents aged 15 to 19 years. The second aim was to investigate correlations between: a) sleep and psychiatric symptoms and; b) sleep and perceived stress. The third aim was to examine possible sex differences in sleep. New publication in Scandinavian Journal of Child and A

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/sleep-relation-psychiatric-symptoms-and-perceived-stress-swedish-adolescents-aged-15-19-years - 2025-04-25

Published 12 March 2020 Overweight and gestational diabetes are risk factors for pregnancy complications. We hypothesized that the metabolic impact of overweight on pregnancy outcome, would be different if it was combined with a predisposition for diabetes. The aim of this study was to compare the outcome of pregnancies in women with diabetes diagnosed later in life, to the outcome of pregnancies

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/women-predisposition-diabetes-have-increased-risk-pregnancy-complications-especially-combination - 2025-04-25

Published 13 March 2020 This study of 11,448 individuals was based on linked information from the Swedish BPSD registry, the National Patient Register and the Cause of Death register. BPSD was assessed with the Neuropsychiatric Inventory (NPI). Cox proportional hazards regressions were performed for survival analysis. To study different degrees of BPSD, data was categorized into groups: no (NPI, 0

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/mortality-patients-behavioural-and-psychological-symptoms-dementia-registry-based-study - 2025-04-25

Published 14 March 2020 Osteoarthritis (OA) is the most common form of arthritis and a leading cause of disability worldwide. Metabolic comorbidities such as type II diabetes occur with a higher rate in people with OA than in the general population. Several factors including obesity, hyperglycaemia toxicity and physical inactivity have been suggested as potential links between diabetes and OA, and

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/understanding-role-diabetes-osteoarthritis-disease-and-treatment-process-study-protocol-swedish - 2025-04-25

Published 15 March 2020 Collecting clinical data is viewed as the gold standard for assessing health-care quality. However, considerable investment is needed if the quality of care is to be recorded over a long period of time. Accordingly, the question arises as to whether routine administrative data may be used for quality assurance purposes if certain methodological standards are followed. This

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/comparing-routine-administrative-data-registry-data-assessing-quality-hospital-care-patients - 2025-04-25

Published 13 March 2020 Den 6 april 2020 öppnar den fjärde transnationella utlysningen inom Joint Programming-initiativet More Years, Better Lives (JPI MYBL). Temat för utlysningen är Jämlikhet och välmående över generationer. Läs mer här.

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/kommande-utlysning-jamlikhet-och-valmaende-over-generationer - 2025-04-25

Published 14 March 2020 The Swedish Research Council will grant an extension to the availability period of research projects at risk of being delayed due to COVID-19. Read more here.

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/your-research-project-affected-covid-19 - 2025-04-25