Developing and Evaluating a Care Pathway for Improving Palliative Care in Western Norway.

To operationalize the palliative care approach and improve care across services, a palliative care pathway (PCP) was developed in Western Norway. The PCP is an evidence-based framework for palliative care assessment and interventions in the form of a web-based flowchart. An electronic questionnaire aimed at health care professionals (HCPs) examined perceived usability and content.

Systemic Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis in two children; case report on clinical course, challenges in diagnosis and the role of FDG-PET/CT-scan.

Systemic juvenile idiopathic arthritis (sJIA, also called Still's disease) is a rare childhood auto-inflammatory disease with significant morbidity. This case report illustrates the clinical course and highlights diagnostic challenges. FDG-PET/CT imaging may be beneficial in the diagnostic process for some cases, in order to achieve rapid diagnosis and early treatment.

Reliability of a novel dynamic test of postural stability in high-level soccer players.

Postural stability of athletes is commonly tested with single-leg stance (SLS) tests. However, for this population, these tests are insufficiently challenging to achieve high sensitivity. Therefore, a new dynamic SLS test based on standardized translational surface perturbations was developed.

The assessment of single-leg drop jump landing performance by means of ground reaction forces: A methodological study.

Background: Time to stabilization (TTS) and dynamic postural stability index (DPSI) are outcome measures based on ground reaction force (GRF) that are often used to quantify dynamic postural stability performance following a drop jump landing. However, their interrelations, as well as the overlap with other dynamic measures and static single-leg postural sway, are unknown.

Research Question: What is the relation among TTS and DPSI, how are they related to impact forces and dynamic postural sway, and how are all these dynamic measures related to static postural sway?

Methods: A sample of 190 elite soccer players performed four single-leg drop jump landings.

Performance on a Single-Legged Drop-Jump Landing Test Is Related to Increased Risk of Lateral Ankle Sprains Among Male Elite Soccer Players: A 3-Year Prospective Cohort Study.

Background: Soccer has a high injury rate, with lateral ankle sprains being a common injury. Therefore, an approach to prevent or at least reduce the occurrence is warranted. Injury prevention can be improved by identifying specific risk factors and individuals at risk.