One Plus One Equals Two—will that do? A trial protocol for a Swedish multicentre randomised controlled trial to evaluate a clinical practice to reduce severe perineal trauma {1}

Psychological resilience and health-related quality of life in Swedish women with newly diagnosed breast cancer

Costing analysis of a digital first-line treatment platform for patients with knee and hip osteoarthritis in Sweden

Osteoarthritis (OA) constitutes a major and increasing burden on patients, health care systems and the broader society. It is estimated that around a quarter of the adult population is affected by OA in the knee and hip and that the prevalence of OA will increase over the coming decades largely due to aging and adverse life-style factors. Prevention and effective care are critical to manage the ch

Familial risks between giant cell arteritis and Takayasu arteritis and other autoimmune diseases in the population of Sweden

Giant cell arteritis (GCA, also called temporal arteritis) is a rare and Takayasu arteritis (TA) is an even rarer autoimmune disease (AID), both of which present with inflammatory vasculitis of large and medium size arteries. The risk factors are largely undefined but disease susceptibility has been associated with human leukocyte antigen locus. Population-level familial risk is not known. In the

Diagnosing colorectal cancer in primary care : cohort study in Sweden of qualitative faecal immunochemical tests, haemoglobin levels, and platelet counts

Transformation of the Ghent system in Sweden: Silent Institutionalization of Complementary Unemployment Benefits

Description and prediction of reading decoding skills in Swedish children with Developmental Language Disorder

Risk of somatic diseases in offspring of survivors with childhood or adolescent central nervous system tumor in Sweden

With the improvement of treatments, a growing number of survivors with childhood or adolescent central nervous system (CNS) tumor are parenting their own children. We aimed to explore the risk of somatic diseases among children of these survivors compared with population controls. Children of survivors with CNS tumor below age of 20 were identified between 1973 and 2014 by combining the several Sw

Quantifying archaeo-organic degradation – A multiproxy approach to understand the accelerated deterioration of the ancient organic cultural heritage at the Swedish Mesolithic site Ageröd

Surgeon heterogeneity significantly affects functional and oncological outcomes after radical prostatectomy in the Swedish LAPPRO trial

Objectives: To evaluate how surgeon heterogeneity – the variation in outcomes between individual surgeons – influences functional and oncological outcomes after robot-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy (RALP) and retropubic radical prostatectomy (RRP), and to assess whether surgeon heterogeneity affects the comparison between RALP and RRP. Patients and Methods: Laparoscopic Prostatectomy Robot Op

Analysis of central venous access injuries from claims to the Swedish Patient Insurance Company 2009-2017

Movement of agricultural products in the Scandinavian Iron Age during the first millennium AD : ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr values of archaeological crops and animals in southern Sweden

The Swedish National Airway Register (SNAR) : development, design and utility to date

Running on Air : Radio and the Experience of Drama in the Swedish ‘Gunder Hägg mania’ of 1941–45

Health care utilisation among older people with Down syndrome compared to specific medical guidelines for health surveillance : a Swedish national register study

Background: Specific medical guidelines for health surveillance exist for people with Down syndrome (DS) since 25 years but knowledge of adherence to the guidelines is lacking. The guidelines were developed to avoid unnecessary suffering from preventable conditions. The aims of the study were to investigate 1) planned health care visits in relation to the co-morbidities described in specific medic

Past-tense inflection of non-verbs : a potential clinical marker of developmental language disorder in Swedish children

The effect of paid vacation on health : evidence from Sweden

The Swedish Ambulance Services

Associations between serum concentrations of perfluoroalkyl substances and DNA methylation in women exposed through drinking water : A pilot study in Ronneby, Sweden

Background: Perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are widespread synthetic substances with various adverse health effects. A potential mechanism of toxicity for PFAS is via epigenetic changes, such as DNA methylation. However, few studies have evaluated associations between PFAS exposure and DNA methylation among adults, and data is especially scarce for women. Furthermore, exposure to environmental po

Soccer-Related Concussions Among Swedish Elite Soccer Players : A Descriptive Study of 1,030 Players