By agata [dot] garpenlind [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Agata Garpenlind) - published 31 August 2023 Inauguration of Forum Medicum 300823, film by Agata Garpenlind, Faculty of Medicine, Lund University Vice-Chancellor Erik Renström named Forum Medicum "Jewel of Sölvegatan" in his inauguration speech Thursday evening. The music played, drinks were poured, aerial acrobats dispayed the capabilities of

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/film-join-inauguration-party-jewel-solvegatan - 2025-03-10

By bjorn [dot] martinsson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Björn Martinsson) - published 6 September 2023 Soon, everyone can see which connection your research has to the UN global sustainability goals, as they will be displayed in the Lund University Research Portal. As a researcher or doctoral student, you should check that the markup is correct. Heiko Herwald, Vice Dean at the Faculty of Medicine wi

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/correct-tagging-sustainability-goals-can-benefit-researchers - 2025-03-10

By agata [dot] garpenlind [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Agata Garpenlind) - published 5 September 2023 Elisabeth Englund, Khrystyna Borteichuk, Marko Shyika and Åsa Tornberg took part in the Summer school for researchers at the Faculty. Foto: Agata Garpenlind. Ten Ukrainian medical students, ten supervisors from the Faculty, for ten weeks. We have checked in with two of the couples. The Summer Schoo

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/back-ukraine-backpack-full-new-swedish-research-experiences - 2025-03-10

By anna [dot] hellgren [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Anna Hellgren) - published 7 September 2023 Photo: Agata Garpenlind The training courses in practical firefighting are now in full swing. The training, which is given in Swedish and English, aims to increase the employees' knowledge and skills to protect themselves and others in an emergency. The course includes practical extinguishing exercises w

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/learn-put-out-fires-important-training-all-employees - 2025-03-10

By agata [dot] garpenlind [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Agata Garpenlind) - published 13 September 2023 Photo from the inauguration of Forum Medicum. Photo: Agata Garpenlind. On Saturday, September 16 at 12.30-17.00 we will hold an Open House in our new building Forum Medicum in connection with Kulturnatten, the Culture Night. We hold lectures and show art around the theme of medicine and health .Fo

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/culture-night-kulturnatten-faculty - 2025-03-10

By agata [dot] garpenlind [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Agata Garpenlind) - published 11 September 2023 Stay up-to-date on changes that affect you as an employee. Cost of parking to increase by 25 per cent this autumn. (To Staff Pages) Digital handling of receipts for reimbursement for health promotion, medication and healthcare. (To Staff Pages) Brief update on what's going on in the salary movemen

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/autumn-news-administration-parking-health-care-salaries-update - 2025-03-10

Published 11 September 2023 This week it was the students' turn to raise their glasses to Forum Medicum. The mingle offered speeches, snacks and piano music by Deputy Dean Martin L Olsson. The celebration began with speeches by Dean Kristina Åkesson, Vice Dean Maria Björkqvist and Emilia Rydén, spokesperson for the student union. Emilia Rydén Photo: Ingemar Hultquist – Future speech therapists, au

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/students-celebrated-forum-medicum-basis-lifelong-collaboration - 2025-03-10

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 - 2025-03-10

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 - 2025-03-10

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 - 2025-03-10

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 - 2025-03-10

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 - 2025-03-10

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 - 2025-03-10

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 - 2025-03-10

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 - 2025-03-10

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 - 2025-03-10

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 - 2025-03-10

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 - 2025-03-10

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 - 2025-03-10

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 - 2025-03-10