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TJENESTER-Helse- og omsorgstjenester

Discontinuation of antipsychotic and antidepressant in patients with dementia and BPSD living in nursing homes. A placebo controlled RCT.

Introduction: The prevalence of patients with dementia is high and many of them have Behavioral- and Psychological Symptoms in Dementia (BPSD). Treatments for BPSD are non-medical or medical therapy. Antipsychotic medication, acetylchollinesterase inhibi tors and antidepressant medication are al...

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Innlandet

TJENESTER-Helse- og omsorgstjenester

Factors predicting psychosocial outcomes in dementia: The effect of diagnosis and neuropsychiatric symptoms

There is little knowledge on the longitudinal course of patients with dementia. Although there is evidence of wide inter-individual variations in progression and outcome of patients with dementia, few studies have explored longitudinally factors that pred ict key prognostic outcome measures. This...

Awarded: NOK 2.1 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Rogaland

TJENESTER-Helse- og omsorgstjenester

The Impact of Pain on Behavioural Disturbances in Patients with Moderate and Severe Dementia. A Cluster Randomized Trial

Worldwide, 24 mill. people have dementia (70000 in Norway) with expected doubling in 30 years. The prevalence of dementia in nursing homes (NH) is 80%, often (60%-80%) combined with behavioural/psychiatric disturbances (BPSD). Additionally, about 80% of N H-patients have pain, which seems to incr...

Awarded: NOK 2.9 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Vestland

HELSEVEL-Gode og effektive helse-, omsorgs- og velferdstjenester

Senter for omsorgsforskning i region vest, Høgskulen på Vestlandet

Senter for omsorgsforskning er etablert av Helse- og omsorgsdepartementet i 2008. Senterets overordnede mandat er å samle, produsere og formidle kunnskap om omsorg og omsorgsarbeid. Ved Senter for omsorgsforskning, vest, er det særlig søkelys på kontekstuelle betingelser for utøvelse av de kommun...

Awarded: NOK 27.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2024

Location: Vestland

TJENESTER-Helse- og omsorgstjenester

Mapping the Normative Terrain of An Ethics of Care

This project is based on an assumption that health care prioritisations raise substantially ethical difficult choices. Further it is presumed that an ethics of care which take the relation to particular patients to be salient might provide important norma tive arguments to the benefit of individu...

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Oslo

TJENESTER-Helse- og omsorgstjenester

Forskningsleder - TJENESTER - Olaug Lian

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Awarded: NOK 0.46 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2010

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

TJENESTER-Helse- og omsorgstjenester

Forskningsleder - TJENESTER - Lars Erik Kjekshus

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Awarded: NOK 0.70 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Oslo

TJENESTER-Helse- og omsorgstjenester

Integrated care for chronic conditions: a multi-method controlled evaluation

The Central Norway Regional Health Authority (Helse Midt-Norge RHF) is to develop a structured collaboration between community and specialist care for people with chronic conditions. As an important part of this the patients will be mobilised by training and education to become more independent a...

Awarded: NOK 4.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

HELSEVEL-Gode og effektive helse-, omsorgs- og velferdstjenester

Extended stroke unit service in Bergen. A RCT looking at the collaboration between hospital service and primary health care.

Stroke is the most commen cause of lasting disability in Norway and consumes substantial health resources. The best possible outcome of rehabilitation after stroke is therefore essential both for the individual patient and for society. Previous studies ha ve indicated that acute treatment in a st...

Awarded: NOK 4.5 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2015

Location: Vestland

TJENESTER-Helse- og omsorgstjenester

Manouvring in hybrid health care organizations

Norwegian health care is pervaded with tensions due to conflicting policy aims and dispersed responsibilities. On one hand efforts are made to make the system streamlined, efficient and based on budget units with clear responsibilities. On the other hand efforts are made to make services responsi...

Awarded: NOK 4.5 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Oslo

TJENESTER-Helse- og omsorgstjenester

Integrity perserving care of persons with Alzheimer`s disease and their families-health promoting longitudinal contr. intervention study

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Awarded: NOK 2.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

HELSEVEL-Gode og effektive helse-, omsorgs- og velferdstjenester

Senter for omsorgsforskning i region Midt-Norge, Nord Universitet

Senter for omsorgsforskning (SOF), midt, er en integrert del av Fakultet for sykepleie og helsevitenskap, Nord universitet. I rapporteringsperioden (2021–2022) har SOF midt videreutviklet FoU-arbeidet gjennom ulike prosjekter, interne oppgaver og eksterne oppdrag. Sammen med de andre regionale se...

Awarded: NOK 27.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2024

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

TJENESTER-Helse- og omsorgstjenester

Arbeidsseminar om samhandling mellom nivåer i helsetjenesten og konsekvenser for utvikling av bygg og infrastruktur i helsevesenet

SINTEF Helse søker om støtte fra NFR for gjennomføring av et arbeidsseminar over 2 dager med norske og internasjonale innledere og deltakere. Seminaret skal bidra til økt kunnskap om og forståelse for sammenhenger mellom leveranse av helsetjenester på flere nivåer i helsevesenet og de fysiske ...

Awarded: NOK 99,999

Project Period: 2008-2009

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

TJENESTER-Helse- og omsorgstjenester

Prioritization in the Health Care Sector

This project investigates prioritization in the Norwegian health care sector. The objective is to see how actual prioritization is affected by regulation and finance systems of the specialist health care sector, and to establish systems for surveillance o f prioritization of patients over geograp...

Awarded: NOK 5.2 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Vestland

TJENESTER-Helse- og omsorgstjenester

A new clinical pathway for patients with fractured neck of femur -The orthopaedics operate, the geriatricians manage the medical work-up

Each year 9000 persons undergo surgery for hip fractures in Norway. The epidemic of hip fractures is associated with high morbidity, mortality, disability and subsequent hospital and social costs as well as impairment of quality of life. Hip fracture pati ents tend to be old and above all charact...

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

HELSEVEL-Gode og effektive helse-, omsorgs- og velferdstjenester

Senter for omsorgsforskning i region sør, Universitet i Agder

Senter for omsorgsforskning (SOF), sør, er et samarbeidsprosjekt mellom Universitetet i Agder og Universitetet i Sørøst-Norge. Senteret har 8 ansatte i ulike stillingsstørrelser, samt forskere tilknyttet på prosjektbasis. Vi har 10 PhD stipendiater og en postdoktor stilling. I rapporteringsperiod...

Awarded: NOK 27.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2024

Location: Agder

HELSEVEL-Gode og effektive helse-, omsorgs- og velferdstjenester

Senter for omsorgsforskning i region nord, UiT Norges arktiske universitet

SOF nord er ett av fem regionale sentre for omsorgsforskning i Norge. Senter for omsorgsforskning (SOF) ble etablert av Helse og omsorgsdepartementet i 2008. Senterets mandat er å samle, produsere og formidle kunnskap om omsorg og omsorgsarbeid. Vi driver forsknings- og utviklingsarbeid for og...

Awarded: NOK 27.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2024

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

TJENESTER-Helse- og omsorgstjenester

Hospital at home for COPD patients - an integrated care program at Akershus University Hospital

A general goal at present is better care for the chronically ill. Akershus University Hospital (Ahus) will try to realize this goal in the case of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), by implementing an integrated care program that includes early discharge from hospital in ...

Awarded: NOK 1.2 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Akershus

TJENESTER-Helse- og omsorgstjenester

Interaction beyond bounadries

New ways of collaboration between health care providers, i.e. physicians and nurses in hospital and community health care, need to be considered to meet the growing need for post-hospital home health care (HHC). Despite great emphasis on clarifying what i nformation should be exchanged between or...

Awarded: NOK 2.8 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Oslo

TJENESTER-Helse- og omsorgstjenester

Multiple drug therapy and coordination of drug prescription for the elderly

From the literature we know that the use of drugs in general and the occurrence of polypharmacy (usually defined as concomitant use of five or more drugs) in particular, has increased dramatically among elderly in the population. Often hospitals, private practising specialists and general practit...

Awarded: NOK 2.1 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Akershus

TJENESTER-Helse- og omsorgstjenester

HEALTH BY NUMBERS: Statistics as a technology of governance in municipal health services.

This project asks: How do statistics function as a tool of governance in municipal health services? We address this question by - studying in detail the negotiation, production, analysis, deployment, and assessment of health services statistics - focusin g especially on three statistics systems ...

Awarded: NOK 4.6 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

HELSEVEL-Gode og effektive helse-, omsorgs- og velferdstjenester

Nasjonal koordineringsrolle for Senter for omsorgsforskning NTNU Gjøvik

Senter for omsorgsforskning (SOF) er utnevnt av Helse- og omsorgsdepartementet og har som mandat å styrke kunnskapsgrunnlaget i kommunenes helse- og omsorgstjenester. SOF består av fem regionale sentre som utgjør et nasjonalt nettverk. De regionale sentrene er etablert ved universiteter og høgsko...

Awarded: NOK 28.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2024

Location: Innlandet

TJENESTER-Helse- og omsorgstjenester

THE EFFECT OF AN EPJ/TQM-SYSTEM ON MEDICAL QUALITY IN STRATEGICALLY SELECTED NORWEGIAN NURSING HOMES

The intervention element in this study is the electronic medical record- and quality system tested in a period of one year. This system has been developed through the project "Geriatric Basis Dataset - development, implementation and testing", supported b y "Kvalitetssikringsfond "? and described...

Awarded: NOK 4.5 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

HELSEVEL-Gode og effektive helse-, omsorgs- og velferdstjenester

Senter for omsorgsforskning i region øst, Høgskolen i Gjøvik

Senter for omsorgsforskning Øst har fått sitt mandat fra Helse- og omsorgsdepartementet, og skal bidra til økt kunnskap for og om de kommunale helse- og omsorgstjenestene. Sentrets kjerneaktiviteter speiler mandatet og omfatter forskning- og utviklings arbeid samt forvaltning og formidling av kun...

Awarded: NOK 28.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2024

Location: Innlandet

TJENESTER-Helse- og omsorgstjenester

Comparative health systems research

In Nordic countries, hospital use differs among individuals, institutions, municipalities, regions and countries. In this project, these differences, and the determinants to these differences, will be addressed and analysed systematically. Hospital use am ong the general population, elderly citiz...

Awarded: NOK 2.2 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2009

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

TJENESTER-Helse- og omsorgstjenester

The implementation of priority setting. GP gatekeepers between health authorities and health care users.

The Norwegian health care system is increasingly dependent on the general practitioner (GP) gatekeeper function for cost containment and fair and effective resource allocation, and the same development is seen in many other countries with a gatekeeper sys tem. The GP is expected to act as a ratio...

Awarded: NOK 2.4 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2009

Location: Vestland

TJENESTER-Helse- og omsorgstjenester

Government financing of drug consumption in Norway and the markets for pharmaceuticals

The starting point is the special structure of the market for drugs: The patient is the principal, his or her doctor is the agent that decides on drugs. The doctor may have developed long-lasting relationships to certain producers. Third party financing i s implied by the reimbursements of medica...

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2008

Location: Oslo

TJENESTER-Helse- og omsorgstjenester

Governing public health services: The interplay between patients, professionals and politicians in comparative perspective

The overarching research questions of the proposed study are: What are the differences and similarities between the public health systems in Denmark, England and Norway? In what way do salient differences in the structure and history of the health care sy stems affect the roles of politicians, pa...

Awarded: NOK 3.6 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2009

Location: Rogaland

HELSEVEL-Gode og effektive helse-, omsorgs- og velferdstjenester

Transitions from hospital care to long-term primary health care: patient flow, user perspectives and inter-agency barriers

Patient flow To study this issue we used data for the year 2010 for all discharged hospital patients (N=540 000) and all users of municipal long-term care (LTC) services. Through that year one out of four hospital patients (132 000) was discharged to further use of institutional or home based mun...

Awarded: NOK 7.4 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2015

Location: Innlandet

TJENESTER-Helse- og omsorgstjenester

Needs and use of health services and disability benefits with emphasis on mental health

The project rests on the Os-Lof material, largely collected by financial support from the Norwegian Research Council. This material comprises data about nearly 2 500 individuals altogether, out of which more than 1 000 have been personally interviewed in 1990 and 2001. A long list of established ...

Awarded: NOK 2.6 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2008

Location: Akershus

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