Published 20 December 2019 Spatial epidemiological analyses primarily depend on spatially-indexed medical records. Some countries have devised ways of capturing patient-specific spatial details using ZIP codes, postcodes or personal numbers, which are geocoded. However, for most resource-constrained African countries, the absence of a means to capture patient resident location as well as inexisten

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/establishing-spatially-enabled-health-registry-systems-using-implicit-spatial-data-pools-case-study - 2025-02-18

Published 20 December 2019 In summary, the authors have proposed progressive ideas which could improve surveillance however, in our view, it is likely that many programs will not have the political and medical support needed for implementation with the exception of mortality outcomes. New publication in European Journal of Medical Genetics

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/triple-surveillance-future-birth-defect-registries - 2025-02-18

Published 21 December 2019 We herein outline the rationale for a Swedish cohort consortium, aiming to facilitate greater use of Swedish cohorts for world-class research. Coordination of all Swedish prospective population-based cohorts in a common infrastructure would enable more precise research findings and facilitate research on rare exposures and outcomes, leading to better utilization of study

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/rationale-swedish-cohort-consortium-0 - 2025-02-18

Published 21 December 2019 PSYCOHORTS lays the foundation for complex examinations of psychiatric disorders that is based on compatible datasets, use of biobanks and multigenerational approach to risk factors, and extensive data on marginalization and inequality. New publication in Nordic Journal of Psychiatry

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/finnish-psychiatric-birth-cohort-consortium-psycohorts-content-plans-and-perspectives - 2025-02-18

Published 22 December 2019 CandiReg provides an eCRF for invasive Candida infections that can be used for a variety of studies from cohort studies on attributable mortality to evaluations of guideline adherence, offering to the investigators of the 28 ECMM member countries the opportunity to document their cases of invasive Candida infection. CandiReg allows the monitoring of epidemiology of invas

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/ecmm-candireg-ready-use-platform-outbreaks-and-epidemiological-studies - 2025-02-18

Published 22 December 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.NARA minimal hip, knee and shoulder

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/benefits-collaboration-nordic-arthroplasty-register-association-0 - 2025-02-18

Published 23 December 2019 The STarT Back Screening Tool (SBT) identifies patients with low back pain (LBP) at risk of a worse prognosis of persistent disabling back pain, and thereby facilitates triage to appropriate treatment level. However, the SBT does not consider the pain distribution, which is a known predictor of chronic widespread pain (CWP). The aim of this study was to determine if scre

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/start-back-screening-tool-and-pain-mannequin-improve-triage-individuals-low-back-pain-risk-worse - 2025-02-18

Published 23 December 2019 Radical prostatectomy (RP) is a common surgical procedure with a risk of postoperative erectile dysfunction and urinary incontinence. There is a need for data on RP as a basis for quality assurance and benchmarking. New publication in Journal of Surgical Oncology

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/population-based-nationwide-registration-prostatectomies-sweden - 2025-02-18

Published 24 December 2019 Randomized clinical trials are the preferred study design to address key research questions about the benefits or harms of interventions. However, randomized trials of oxygen therapy are difficult to conduct and have limitations. 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 alternati

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/patient-registries-home-oxygen-research-and-evaluation-0 - 2025-02-18

Published 24 December 2019 The best-fit model predicted risk for DA in S2 as a function of the log of kilometres between S1 and S2 with parameter estimates (±95% confidence intervals) of 0.94 (0.92; 0.95). Prediction of DA included effects of cohabitation and an interaction of proximity and time since S1 registration with stronger effects of proximity early in the follow-up period. Proximity effec

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/geographical-proximity-and-transmission-drug-abuse-among-siblings-evaluating-contagion-model-swedish - 2025-02-18

Published 25 December 2019 The best-fit model predicted risk for DA in S2 as a function of the log of kilometres between S1 and S2 with parameter estimates (±95% confidence intervals) of 0.94 (0.92; 0.95). Prediction of DA included effects of cohabitation and an interaction of proximity and time since S1 registration with stronger effects of proximity early in the follow-up period. Proximity effec

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/geographical-proximity-and-transmission-drug-abuse-among-siblings-evaluating-contagion-model-swedish-0 - 2025-02-18

Published 25 December 2019 Major advances in cardiovascular medicine have been driven by innovations in basic research in biological and technical sciences. The subsequent testing in prospective randomized controlled trials (RCT) has provided the evidence underpinning the introduction of new, more effective, and safer treatments. New publication in European Heart Journal

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/euroheart-european-unified-registries-heart-care-evaluation-and-randomized-trials - 2025-02-18

Published 26 December 2019 New publicatin in An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/surgical-registries-patient-reported-outcome-data-important-tools-monitoring-complications-after - 2025-02-18

Published 26 December 2019 As of 2019, Germany has still not been able to provide a national poisoning register and toxicovigilance for sufficient and reliable information on human exposure for the purpose of identification and assessment of toxic risk to the public. In particular, the USA acts as a special model, but France, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and Sweden also have efficient poisoning r

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/national-poisoning-registers-and-toxicovigilance-different-countries-models-germany - 2025-02-18

Published 27 December 2019 More than 70% of patients with breast cancer present with node-negative disease, yet all undergo surgical axillary staging. We aimed to define predictors of nodal metastasis using clinicopathological characteristics (CLINICAL), gene expression data (GEX), and mixed features (MIXED) and to identify patients at low risk of metastasis who might be spared sentinel lymph node

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/prediction-lymph-node-metastasis-breast-cancer-gene-expression-and-clinicopathological-models - 2025-02-18

Published 27 December 2019 A major challenge in clinical research today is the difficulty that studies have in meeting recruitment goals. Up to 48% of studies do not meet accrual goals within the specified timeframe, significantly delaying the progress of projects and the dissemination of findings. This pervasive problem is a recruitment crisis. We developed a representative, ethnically and racial

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/developing-and-launching-research-participant-registry - 2025-02-18

Published 28 December 2019 The National Spinal Cord Injury Registry of Iran (NSCIR-IR) is a not-for-profit, hospital-based, and prospective observational registry that appraises the quality of care, long-term outcomes and the personal and psychological burden of traumatic spinal cord injury in Iran. Benchmarking validity in every registry includes rigorous attention to data quality. New publicatio

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/national-spinal-cord-injury-registry-iran-nscir-ir-critical-appraisal-its-strengths-and-weaknesses - 2025-02-18

Published 28 December 2019 Vascunet has previously published an international comparison of registry data within vascular surgery. Data validity and completeness in participating registries is essential for a meaningful interpretation of differences between countries. The Vascunet collaboration has therefore developed a methodology for validation of international vascular registry data, previously

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/international-validation-danish-vascular-registry-karbase-vascunet-report - 2025-02-18

Published 29 December 2019 The use of clinical autopsy has been in decline for many years throughout healthcare systems of developed countries despite studies showing substantial discrepancies between autopsy results and pre-mortal clinical diagnoses. We conducted a study to evaluate over time the use and results of clinical autopsies in Sweden. We reviewed the autopsy reports and autopsy referral

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/cause-death-and-significant-disease-found-autopsy - 2025-02-18

Published 29 December 2019 Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a chronic, inflammatory relapsing disease with increasing incidence. IBD research and long-term follow-up of patients have, however, been hampered by lack of detailed data on disease phenotype, patient-reported outcome measures, Physician Global Assessment, disease activity, and hospital-administered drugs. New publication in Scandinav

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/swedish-inflammatory-bowel-disease-register-swibreg-nationwide-quality-register - 2025-02-18