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 - 2025-02-23

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 - 2025-02-23

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 - 2025-02-23

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 - 2025-02-23

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 - 2025-02-23

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 - 2025-02-23

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 - 2025-02-23

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 - 2025-02-23

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 - 2025-02-23

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 - 2025-02-23

Published 16 March 2020 The system aims to support researchers who receive or have received project funding from the Swedish Research Council (VR), or from other funders that demand the establishing of a DMP. A DMP is a document that provides a framework for how the research material is collected, handled, organized, stored and made available during the research process and how it should be preser

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/creating-data-management-plan-dmp-dmproadmap - 2025-02-23

Published 17 March 2020 The university has a new deal with Wiley which means that you pay no publishing fee to publish open access in all their journals (including hybrid journals). As a general rule regarding subsidies for OA journals, you get 50 % off the publishing fee if you chose any pure, serious OA journal, at the moment this subsidy is increased to 100 %. Read more about other publisher ag

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/financial-support-open-acess-publishing-fees - 2025-02-23

Published 17 March 2020 Cerebral palsy (CP) is one of the most common neurodevelopmental disabilities. Yet, most individuals with CP are adults. How individuals with CP fare in terms of health, quality of life (QoL), education, employment and income is largely unknown. Further, little is known about the effects of having a child with CP on the parents. New publication in BMJ Open

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/cp-north-living-life-nordic-countries-retrospective-register-research-protocol-individuals-cerebral - 2025-02-23

Published 18 March 2020 n recent years, there have been significant changes in the perception of valvular and vascular allograft transplants. Despite the constant evolution of the field of transplant and the involvement of multiple surgical specialties, there is not an official registry for administrative and clinical control. This study aims to design a registry of vascular and valvular allograft

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/registry-valvular-and-vascular-allograft-transplants-autonomous-community-catalonia-spain-revac - 2025-02-23

Published 18 March 2020 In line with Lund University's switch to distance education, the weekly LUPOP/SND drop-in will be moved to Zoom. The LUPOP/SND drop-in at Tornblad each Monday at 9-12 will be cancelled as long as the policy of Lund University is that all education should be provided online and not on campus. Instead, representative(s) of LUPOP and/or SND will be available for Zoom meetings.

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/lupop-drop-zoom - 2025-02-23

Published 19 March 2020 Record linkage is increasingly used in health research worldwide. Combining the patient information available in healthcare, administrative and clinical databases broadens the research perspectives, particularly for chronic diseases. Recent guidelines highlight the need for transparency on the used record linkage processes and the extracted data to be used by researchers. N

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/linking-disease-registries-and-nationwide-healthcare-administrative-databases-french-renal - 2025-02-23

Published 20 March 2020 Online gambling has increased in recent years, including online casino games and live sports betting which constitute rapid gambling activities with significant potential for gambling-related harm. There is a paucity of research examining whether specific gambling patterns are related to problem gambling and over-indebtedness, when controlling for psychological distress, ge

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/over-indebtedness-and-problem-gambling-general-population-sample-online-gamblers - 2025-02-23

Published 19 March 2020 På grund av covid-19 flyttar Vetenskapsrådet fram deadline för tio utlysningar som skulle stängt 31 mars. Ny deadline är 7 april 2020. Läs mer här

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/forlangd-ansokningsperiod-utlysningar-pa-grund-av-covid-19 - 2025-02-23

Published 19 March 2020 We have compiled a list of publications describing twin registers around the world. You can find it under LUPOP for researchers > Population data outside LU. Or click here to go straight there!

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/new-lupopluse-twin-registers - 2025-02-23

Published 20 March 2020 Vetenskapsrådet och SUHF har tagit fram ett inriktningsförslag för en ny myndighet för svensk e-infrastruktur för forskning. Förslaget påverkar framtidens organisering av bland andra SNIC, SND och Sunet. Monica Lassi vid Lunds universitet är en av dem som varit med och tagit fram förslaget, och svarar gärna på frågor om den del av processen som hon var involverad i. Maila l

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/inriktningsforslag-organisering-av-svensk-e-infrastruktur-forskning - 2025-02-23