Published 29 July 2019 Clinical registries are health information systems, which have the mission to collect multidimensional real-world data over the long term, and to generate relevant information and actionable knowledge to address current serious healthcare problems. New publication in Bone & Joint.Read more here.

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/registry-stakeholders - 2025-01-08

Published 30 July 2019 The Nordic Arthroplasty Register Association (NARA) was established in 2007 by arthroplasty register representatives from Sweden, Norway and Denmark with the overall aim to improve the quality of research and thereby enhance the possibility for quality improvement with arthroplasty surgery. Finland joined the NARA collaboration in 2010. New publication in Bone& Joint.Read mo

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/benefits-collaboration-nordic-arthroplasty-register-association - 2025-01-08

Published 31 July 2019 Establishment of orthopaedic registers started in 1975 and many registers have been initiated since. The main purpose of registers is to collect information on patients, implants and procedures in order to monitor and improve the outcome of the specific procedure. New publication in Bone & Joint.Read more here.

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/what-when-and-how-orthopaedic-registers-introduction-register-based-research - 2025-01-08

Published 29 July 2019 The newly established Centre for International Health Protection (ZIG) consolidates the international work of the RKI. It contains four units (Public Health Intelligence, Evidence Based Public Health, Preparedness and Operations Support; Public Health Laboratory Support) and a Programme Office hosting specific projects. The jobholder will report directly to the President of

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/head-department-robert-koch-institut - 2025-01-08

Published 30 July 2019 Queen's University Belfast are recruiting for a Lecturer in Epidemiology/Statistics (Nutrition) who will further develop research in Nutrition & Preventive Medicine within the Institute for Global Food Security. The successful candidate will bring expertise in epidemiology and statistics and have experience in the analyses of complex datasets including gut microbiome, nutrit

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/lecturer-epidemiologystatistics - 2025-01-08

Published 31 July 2019 The BIH Johanna Quandt Professorships are particularly aimed at women scientists who have developed their own scientific profile after completing their doctorate and who have professional experience at academic institutions outside Germany. The professorships are open to all topics and may originate from the entire spectrum of life and health sciences relevant for translatio

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/berlin-institute-health-johanna-quandt-professorships - 2025-01-08

Published 1 August 2019 Vetenskapsrådet har, tillsammans med flera andra parter, tecknat ett helt nytt avtal med Springer Nature. Avtalet innebär att forskare kan publicera artiklar utan att betala publiceringsavgifter i Springer Natures närmare 600 tidskrifter som har öppen tillgång. Läs mer här.

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/nytt-avtal-med-springer-nature - 2025-01-08

Published 2 August 2019 Incidental gallbladder cancer is a rare event, and its prognosis is largely affected by the tumour stage and treatment. The aim of this study was to analyse the management, treatment and survival of patients with incidental gallbladder cancer in a national cohort over a decade. Read more here.

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/new-publication-lu-management-incidental-gallbladder-cancer-national-cohort - 2025-01-08

Published 3 August 2019 SNQ collects data for infants admitted to neonatal units during the first fourpostnatal weeks. Completeness and registers’ agreement were determined cross-linkingSNQ data with Swedish population registers (the Inpatient, Medical Birth and Cause ofDeath Registers) for a study period of five years. Read more here.

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/swedish-neonatal-quality-register-contents-completeness-and-validity - 2025-01-08

Published 4 August 2019 The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into force in May 2018. The aspiration of providing for a high level of protection to individuals’ personal data risked placing considerable constraints on scientific research, which was contrary to various research traditions across the EU. Read more here.

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/gdpr-and-research-exemption-considerations-necessary-safeguards-research-biobanks - 2025-01-08

Published 5 August 2019 Data were taken from the Swedish National Study on Aging and Care (SNAC), a national, longitudinal, multidisciplinary study of the general elderly population (defined as 60 years of age or older). A 12-lead resting electrocardiography (ECG) was performed at baseline and 6-year follow-up. Read more here.

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/prevalence-and-incidence-atrial-fibrillation-and-other-arrhythmias-general-older-population - 2025-01-08

Published 6 August 2019 This is a retrospective study of 602 patients with primary invasive breast cancer operated on with SNB and c-ALND in Lund and Malmö during 2008–2013. All these patients had micro- and/or macro-metastases in SNs. Information was retrieved from the national Information Network for Cancer Care (INCA). Read more here.

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/determinants-non-sentinel-node-metastases-primary-invasive-breast-cancer - 2025-01-08

Published 7 August 2019 Development of scale models, differences between patient groups and relationships with cardiovascular and diabetes complication risk factors, in a combined registry and survey study in Sweden Read more here.

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/patient-reported-outcome-and-experience-measures-diabetes - 2025-01-08

Published 8 August 2019 The purpose of this article is to offer our view on the potential use of patient registries in the field of home oxygen in COPD as an alternative to randomized trials by referring to the Swedish experience with a national registry for respiratory failure. Read more here.

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/patient-registries-home-oxygen-research-and-evaluation - 2025-01-08

Published 9 August 2019 There is a need to develop and evaluate evidence-based interventions to prevent unnecessary suffering and early death related to poisoning or respiratory diseases among older people with ID. To do this, implementation of risk assessments and increased knowledge of the consequences of poisoning and incidents of foreign bodies entering the respiratory organs are necessary. Re

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/incidents-resulting-health-care-among-older-people-intellectual-disability-comparison-general - 2025-01-08

Published 10 August 2019 Data on the incidence of colorectal cancer (CRC) is conflicting, and it is unknown if the incidence is constant, declining, or increasing. Proximal colon cancer is considered to be more common among older individuals, but recent data have shown that rectal cancer and distal colon cancer have been increasing in the younger population. The aim of this study was to determine

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/increasing-colorectal-cancer-incidence-individuals-aged-50-years - 2025-01-08

Published 11 August 2019 Smoking is a strong risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD) and causes exposure to cadmium, which is a pro-atherosclerotic metal. Cadmium exposure has also been shown to increase the risk of CVD, even after adjustment for smoking. Our hypothesis was that part of the risk of CVD in smokers may be mediated by cadmium exposure from tobacco smoke. We examined this hypothe

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/smoking-induced-risk-future-cardiovascular-disease-partly-mediated-cadmium-tobacco - 2025-01-08

Published 12 August 2019 We examined all death certificates (DCs, n=2 01 488) in adults recorded in the Skåne region during 1998–2014. We identified all fall deaths using International Statistical Classification of Diseases (ICD)-10 codes (W00-W19) and calculated the mortality rates by age and sex. Temporal trends were evaluated using joinpoint regression and associated causes were identified by a

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/fall-related-mortality-southern-sweden - 2025-01-08

Published 13 August 2019 Cognitive impairment is common among older adults, necessitating the use of collateral sources in epidemiological studies involving this age group. The objective of this study was to evaluate agreement between self- and proxy-reports of cardiovascular disorders and diabetes mellitus in a population-based sample of 80-year-olds. Further, both self- and proxy-reports were co

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/agreement-between-self-reports-proxy-reports-and-national-patient-register-regarding-diagnoses - 2025-01-08

Published 14 August 2019 A cross-sectional survey of the Danish Cardiac Rehabilitation Database Read more here.

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/facilitators-using-data-quality-registry-local-quality-improvement-work - 2025-01-08